A Landless Alien: Where heart lay by Ramu Upadhaya – Review
A Landless Alien: where heart lay is a novel by Ramu Upadhaya that exhibits very elusive ideas vested in a democracy and the unmaking of it. The novelist has used…
Who Killed Shastri? The Tashkent Files book by Vivek Agnihotri – Review
Vivek Agnihotri’s movie, The Kashmir Files, has opened the floodgates. Many opinions are coming at a quick pace. Many are in favour of this movie and moviemaker. However, some people…
India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J Sai Deepak – Book Review
I have not put my faith in Ashwin Sanghi‘s concept of history being more stranger than fiction until now. After coming across the ‘opinions’ like Yudhishthir getting inspiration from Ashoka, and…
English Literature in Context by Paul Poplawski – Book Review
“… economic and social factors began significantly to change patterns of cultural production and consumption at the end of the nineteenth century. Of most relevance to literature (and fiction in…
Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam by Vivek Agnihotri – Review
Urban Naxals, a very popular title by director and screenwriter Vivek Agnihotri, published in 2017, is about the making of the movie Buddha in a Traffic Jam, as the subtitle…
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…
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…
See Glass by Ido Graf – Book Review
Political crime thrillers are not new. Espionage and spy fiction as well as novels based on grim realities are seldom welcomed in our country with open arms by readers as…
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 by Aravind Adiga – Book Review
Title: The White Tiger Author: Aravind Adiga Publication: Harper Collins, 2008, UK ISBN: 1-4165-6259-1 Genre: Picaresque novel Number of Pages: 318 Price: 400 Name of the Reviewer: Chandan Kumar Aravind…
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…