Endearing Species by Ramu Upadhaya – Book Review
The first thing that instantly grabbed my attention about Endearing Species is the way the novelist has named the characters, the leading ones, in this novel. Though the author tries…
The Circus Trap by Sindhu John – Book Review
Let me inform my readers at the very onset of this review article that it is about a book written by Sindhu John, the popular children’s writer, The Circus Trap.…
Palace Smash into Slum by Ashok Yeshuran Masilamani – Book Review
Indian English literature has witnessed a new trend. Many writers have started writing novellas. It is typically short in length, having the essential features of a novel. I have recently…
Penalty and Pardon by Ramu Upadhya – Book Review
Penalty and Pardon is purely an imaginative fictional piece by Ramu Upadhya. The book is philosophical in nature and explores different dimensions of spirituality. Honestly speaking, you will seldom find…
Centripetal by Rohit Shukla – Book Review
Centripetal is a novel written by young and rising author Rohit Shukla. The novel is very intriguing, loaded with allusions to various popular songs in the background, many implicit analogies…
Acts of Sanctification by Amitava Chaudhuri – Book Review
The novel ‘Acts of Sanctification’ by Amitava Chaudhuri is a wonderful political fiction loaded with aspiration, conspiracies, duel with the past of oneself and hopes and despair about the future…
Naakam Dushman by Ravi Ranjan Goswami (Hindi) – Book Review
Book: Nakaam Dushman Language: Hindi Author: Ravi Ranjan Goswami The world of Indian English literature has been lit up with a variety of works published by a variety of authors…
Are You My Twinflame by Neha Sharma – Book Review
There have been many feministic novels in recent years. Even the ones by this latest, diverse and expressive generation of novelists in India have offered a variety of perspectives to…
The Powerful, The Powerless by Shiva Dhuli – Book Review
The title contains the central idea of the novel – one set of characters is powerful and another set is powerless. However, in this world that we inhabit, nothing is…
A Dumb’s Story by Sudipta Roy – book review
“For me, there was no option left. I was almost dead when I chose this path, but you were not. You had a good job, good career prospects. Still, you…
The White Tiger – looking back at the ‘masterpiece’ that is a heap of broken images
Though the book brought fame and wealth, feet in the elite clubs where ‘liberals’ engage and discuss poverty having thousand-dollar wine, Man Booker Award and what not, have you read…
The Battle of Narratives – Right vs the Left in Literature & other Writings
There is no harm in displaying your political affiliations in a democracy! Democracy is very much about political affiliations, people voting their favourite party and leaders, electing a government and…