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Author: T.G.C PrasadPublisher: Penguin India
Rating: 3.5/5

Unusual people are ordinary people who strive hard to do extraordinary things. They are sensitive to nuances, look to provide lateral solutions, dare to think out of the box, and often end up changing the rules of the game. The book mixes both the traditional and modern outlook for bringing changes in our lives by providing a sharp, concise way of dealing with tough situations.
T.G.C. Prasad presents the views and experiences of sixty-five individuals, from well-known names like Mike Lawrie, Azim Premji…

Title: Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi Author: Steve Inskeep Publisher: Penguin Viking ISBN: 9780670086078Genre: Non-Fiction Pages: 284Source: Publisher Rating: 5/5
Instant City chronicles the life of Karachi – of a city in Pakistan that seems to be the only metropolis and yet the dichotomy lies in it being so backward at times, that even its people fail to recognize it. Karachi has been transformed a lot since the India-Pakistan partition and in many ways that most people fail to see. Steve Inskeep brilliantly writes and captures the essence…

Title: The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New IndiaAuthor: Siddhartha DebPublisher: Penguin Viking IndiaISBN: 978-0-670-08596-5Genre: Non-FictionPages: 253Source: PublisherRating: 4/5
India as a country is not easy to understand. It never has been, with its glaring differences in strata of societies and not to mention the similarities sometimes, it is almost like a maze with no fixed end point. And that is because it is constantly evolving and ever-changing. With these changes moving at their own speed and yet the past not letting us get very far, Siddhartha Deb’s…

Author: Suchitra Krishnamoorthi
Publisher: Puffin Books

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10-year-old Chitrangana, with her innocent eyes and precocious lies, is the despair of her gang of friends at Swapnalok society in downtown Mumbai. All she wants is to grow her hair, have her mother bake her an angel cake, and become a bathroom decorator of repute. But deep down, what she really wants is to find her father.

Meanwhile, there is not a dull moment as the varied, often eccentric residents of Swapnalok society as they go about their…

Title: A Golden AgeAuthor: Tahmima AnamPublisher: Penguin IndiaISBN: 9780143415374 Genre: Literary Fiction, War FictionPP: 328 pagesPrice: Rs. 350 Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
War novels like Gone with the Wind, Sophie’s Choice, The Book Thief to name a few, capture the stresses and choices that ordinary people are forced to make as the brutality and deprivation of war, occupation, captivity, that change the ordinary circumstances of life into a living nightmare. This book is no different.
The book starts with a prologue where the widow Rehana sits at her husband’s grave and…

Author: Paritosh Uttam
Publisher: Penguin India

First-year student Naina is utterly smitten by her senior, Michael, acknowledged genius and resident rebel of the Fine Arts College, Mumbai. So when he proposes that they drop out of college and live in, she readily agrees. But life with Michael soon turns into an emotional roller coaster. Temperamental, opinionated and incredibly selfish, he expects Naina to run the household so that he is free to paint. Naina tries her hand at several odd jobs, but when an accident leave Michael blind, their life…

Title: Nothing to Declare: StoriesAuthor: Rabi ThapaPublisher: Penguin IndiaISBN: 978-0-143-41543-5Genre: Short Stories, FictionPP: 172 pagesPrice: Rs.199Source: PublisherRating: 4/5
Nepal has had special memories for me. I practically spent every summer there since I was ten with my cousins and the entire extended family and loved it. There was nothing more special than watching rented movies (No DVD age and thank god for that!) and munching on home-cooked popcorn with mugs of hot chocolate and the anticipation of waking the next morning and visiting Pokhra or Bakthapur. We also spent freezing…

Title: Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of EnglishAuthor: Edited by Rita Kothari and Rupert SnellPublisher: Penguin India ISBN: 9780143416395Genre: Non-Fiction PP: 280 pagesPrice: Rs. 299Source: PublisherRating: 4/5
Last time I checked, one used to correct either people’s Hindi or English and today when I look around – I find that the merger of the two languages – Hinglish (or so it is known and accepted even by the MS Dictionary) needs no correction. I am a person who teaches English and corrects peoples’ incorrect English. That is my profession and all…

Title: First Day, First Show: Writings from the Bollywood TrenchesAuthor: Anupama ChopraPublisher: Penguin IndiaISBN: 978-0-143-06594-4Genre: Non-Fiction, Reviews, Column WritingsPP: 376 pagesPrice: Rs. 499Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
There are two things that we as Indians are most fascinated by – Cricket and Bollywood. We love our stars – whether on the field or on the silver screen. We idolize them and loathe them; we aspire to be them – so much so there are Bollywood Star posters in almost every Indian Household. We also worship them – temples are built, babies are…

Author: Amrit N. Shetty
Publisher: Penguin India

Anup, a happy-go-lucky boy next door, finds himself a misfit in an IT company. On the bright side, he has great friends in office- Chetan, Subbu and Parag – to help him out of sticky situations. Also, in the same office is the love of his life, Rajni. But Rajni’s strict family and her paranoia of tongue-wagging colleagues play villain in their love story forcing him to be satisfied with clandestine meetings, secret phone conversations and emails. Just as Anup decides to turn…