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Chanakya’s Chant by author-entrepreneur Ashwin Sanghi aka Shawn Haigins won the Vodafone Crossword Book Awards for 2010 – in the Popular Award category.
Ashwin has come out with the Chanakya’s Chant/ “Review-It-Get-Published Contest“: in 3 easy steps.
Step 1. Write a review.Step 2. Share it with your friends.Step 3. Get your name and review printed in the next edition of Chanakya’s Chant.
Check out the following link for further details: http://www.facebook.com/shawnhaigins?sk=app_190322544333196
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The last date to submit your review is 5th October 2011.…

We all have or at least most of us have one mouth, pair of eyes, pair of ears, and other physical attributes but one thing that makes us unique is — the brain. And one things which differentiates us from animals too.But how does it function and how is each of us so unique? How do we perceive various things? How do we learn languages? How can one be creative? And How does the two-walnut organ better known as the brain perform so many functions?Answering all the above questions and…

REVIEW BY SHREYA RAMNATH
Witty and entertaining
While it is commendable that new-age authors are consciously writing about what is familiar to them- their roots, milieu and middle-class lives, this change, though refreshing at first, seems to have (typical of today’s world where anything successful is done-to-death) deteriorated into yet another overdone trend that the bored reader has tired of, wishing instead for something new and ‘different.’
Keep The Change by Nirupama Subramanian does little to introduce a new type of writing to the reader; it is another one of…

Inspirational.
There are some books which attract you. For some reason, one gets pulled towards them and then there is no turning back. One knows that it is going to affect one is strange ways. Memories Of A Rolling Stone, did precisely that. It has been over a week since I completed the book and I am still mesmerized, influenced and inspired by the book.
This is the first autobiography that I have completed. The book not only gave me an insight into the women’s movement in India but also segments of…

REVIEW BY RAMYA Y
The Padma Bhushan award winning author Yashpal himself played a dominant role in the quest for liberating India through revolutionary armed struggle. He embarked on his literary career in the barracks where he was imprisoned for 14 long years, continuing his zest for writing in Lucknow where he went on to author several short stories, essays, novels and reminiscences that mirrored his ideas of revolution, romance and gender equality. Jhootha Sach, his masterpiece of Hindi literature is a poignant portrayal of the partition scenario in India.…

This book review has been published in association with Vodaphone Crossword Book Awards -2010. You can check out the award details here.

Author: Kalpish Ratna

Publisher: Harper Collins India

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Rating: 5/5

That first Sunday in December, while the Prime Minister in India dozed in Delhi, lesser things happened to lesser people in Bombay.

Mohammad Yunus doused his clothes with kerosene and struck a match.

Balkrishna More leaned out over the frenzied maha-aarati in the street and jumped to his death.

In a shuttered room in…

REVIEW BY SATWIK GADE
Mind-Numbingly Placid

Those grown jaded of the generation Y (or is it Z?) hip metro reads that glorify culturally mongrel protagonists and their antipathic misadventures are often on the look out for a book that could take them back into the past, telling the tale of a bustling joint family, whose curious social mores touch a spot set aside for nostalgia. They would hungrily lap up the saga of a nation that is coming of age, stretching its umbilical cord without quite severing it. They would be…

REVIEW BY NETRA KUMANAN

“Koni the story of a champion” is a story about true sportsmanship. Kanakchampa Pal ‘koni’ is a poor tomboy who lives in a slum. She spends all her time with the boys and loves sports. Koni is someone with a lot of determination and passion for sports.

Kshitish Sinha, a ruthless but determined and reasonable coach, is one with an eye for talent and knows exactly what to do to make it rise. Kshitish is sent out of his swimming club, Jupiter, when he sees Koni and is determined…

This book is among the shortlisted books in ‘Popular Category’ for Vodafone Crossword Book Awards 2010.

Title : Simply Fly
Author : Captain Gopinath
Publisher : Collins Business
ISBN : 978-81-7223-842-1

‘Simply Fly’ is a story of a small boy hailing from a remote village, who went on to don multiple roles and became an iconic figure, an inspiring personality, a true entrepreneur, a fighter and a true karma yogi.

In his autobiography, Captain Gopinath takes the readers through the journey of his life beginning from a very humble setting,…

REVIEW BY CHITRALEKHA MANOHAR

Annie Zaidi speaks of her experiences as a journalist in North India, and I say ‘speaks’ with a reason. This book talks to you. It takes you by the hand and leads you through a quest to investigate why this country does what it does and why it is what it is – it asks questions. Annie Zaidi may not have all the answers, but instead, she gives you perspectives. Woven in with the narrative are childhood memories, statistics, musings on family, conversations, overheard snippets. The…