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Title: The Love Collection- Urban ShotsEditor: Sneh ThakurPublisher: Grey Oak- WestlandPublished: 2011Pages: 216Price: INR 199Genre: Short stories/Contemporary Indian Fiction
Love is sacred, yet to many lost and caught in this web of society, it remains forbidden. Love is universal, yet to most who devote all their senses to its pursuit, it remains elusive. Love is ethereal, yet it is defeated more often than not by considerations real and pragmatic. Love is love, yet in this one word lies a myriad of emotions ranging from happiness to anger to jealousy to…

Title: Melancholy of Innocence

Author: Raj Doctor
Publisher: Frog Books (Leadstart Publishing)
Pages: 342
Genre: Fiction / Romance / Philosophy
Rating: 7.5/10
Source: Review Copy (from Author / Publisher)

‘Melancholy of Innocence’ in author’s own words is ‘a philo-poetic fable of love set in the late 1920s in Istanbul, just after the political revolution leading to Turkish independence. It is an adolescent’s journey into self discovery about the true meaning of love’.

13 year old Umit has had a normal and happy childhood. His parents had a love marriage, and they…

Title : Melancholy of Innocence
Author : Raj Doctor
Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN : 978-93-81115-05-3

Melancholy of Innocence by Raj Doctor is a passionate love story of Umit who barely made his presence felt in the teen years and a beautiful girl Masum who happens to be eight years elder to Umit. The story is told in a flashback set in late 1920s in Istanbul against the backdrop of post political revolution that led to Turkish independence.

Umit finds a connection of ‘Ruh’ with Masum and obsessively follows his…

Title: The Perfect BrideAuthor: Brenda JoycePublisher: HQN BooksPublished: 2007Price: Rs. 25 (by chance/luck)Pages: 377

I had no inkling when I bought this book for an unbelievable bargain price of Rs.25 from a shady corner in Janpath flea market that I am going to be in for such a treat. This book, however, surpassing all my expectations took me on a glorious journey of romance and passion, one I am not likely to get over for at least some months to come.
The Perfect Bride is seventh in the sequence of…

Author: Chital Mehta
Publisher: Mahaveer Publishers

Ajay is thrown out of his home because he don’t want to join dad’s business and just want to enjoy life without taking any responsibilities. Yes, Wake-up-Sid kinds. He joins CAT classes, falls in love with the coaching institute owner’s daughter and the drama continues. Meanwhile, he has made a promise to do something in life with his mother and to marry the girl when he becomes that someone. Will he be able to fulfill his promises? Step into this world of friendship, love…

Author: Chital mehta

Publisher: Diamond Books

Having lived in a dream world where everything seems perfect, Khushi is heart – broken when Rohit, her boyfriend of two years, dumps her for another blonde. Since then, she resolves to seal her heart for love convinced that she would never fall in love ever. Just when she moves on with her life surrounded by friends who help her our to mend her broken heart, she meets Jai, Mr. Perfect – her boss. At least, that’s what Khushi thought about him. Despite her…

Author: Chetan Bhagat

Publisher: Rupa Publications

It could be a little too early to predict, but Revolution 2020 may just go down as Chetan Bhagat’s best work since Five Point Someone. After that sparkling debut in 2004, to me personally his writing had gone down a notch. One night at the Call Centre (2005) had a cop-out climax while 3 Mistakes of my life (2007) had OTT sensibilities and was too ‘filmy’ for me. CB recovered ground with 2 States (2009) by picking an interesting semi auto-biographical account of his…

Author: Kulpreet Yadav

Publisher: Cedar Books

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When Harry decides to move away from his wife Kareena, to faraway Port Blair, he is hoping the distance would blur the differences the two have acquired after marriage. But it is not to be. Gloomy, tired and already a pessimist, he is boating in a bay close to his father’s house, when a catastrophe strikes – a tsunami. In the face of a sure death, Harry realises how shallow his expectations from the marriage have been. He wakes…

Title – Q: A NovelAuthor : Evan ManderyRelease Date : Aug 23, 2011 Genre : Contemporary FictionPublisher : Harper CollinsPages : 368Rating : 4.5/5Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC
If you knew what your future had in store would you change the present to make it better ? Quite the question, isn’t it ? Evan Mandery weaves his novel around just such a premise. The blurb about this book seemed really enticing : a man is informed of future not-so-pleasant events in his life, and is advised to make different decisions to…

The cover of the book had me fascinated and so did the title… Blinkers off by Andaleeb Wajid is the kind of book you should read after a packed tiring day…. The book is light, while being deep;  It is fun while being serious and it makes for a breezy read.

While reading this book, i realized once again it is not necessary for a book to be heavy duty, filled with high tech words and have complex characters for it to be interesting.
The book is all about “Noor”.…