January 10, 2015
Book Review: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
What can be better for a Murakami fan when two of his books release within a short span of time…
Category: Book Club
December 29, 2014
Bloodline Bandra – A bleddy interesting tale
The story of Bloodline Bandra starts in the Pali village of Bandra. Pali village, where everyone has a nickname by…
November 27, 2014
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage : Haruki Murakami
Murakami’s books are something that even the most read people find it difficult to understand even though he is quite…
November 20, 2014
Rebirth : Book Review
When I picked up Rebirth by Jahnavi Barua, frankly speaking I was quite skeptical as not many books on feminist…
November 15, 2014
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Recently, I read Siddhartha Deb’s book The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India. The first thing…
October 4, 2014
Ri – The Homeland of Uncertainty
– Review by Mayuri Bhattacharjee Ri- Homeland of Uncertainty by Paulami DuttaGupta is an average effort to dedicate the written…
September 15, 2014
The stories in-between – The Legends of Pensam
The Legends of Pensam by the noted poet Mamang Dai is a delight to read. As with her poems, the…
September 14, 2014
Quests, Identities And Secrets – Book Review of ‘Land Where I Flee’
Chitralekha Nepauney, a shrewd businesswoman, with formidable political clout in Sikkim, is approaching her 84th birthday. For Nepali Hindus the…
September 1, 2014
The Roots and the Roving Spirits: Review: The Gurkha’s Daughter
Spread largely over three countries- Nepal, Bhutan and India, the Gurkhas are an enigma of sort. With the stories about…
September 1, 2014
Hard Boiled
I got this book last Christmas. I have always heard of Frank Miller but haven’t actually checked his books and…
August 2, 2014
The Versatile Writer – Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan is the author of the novels “Lunatic in my Head,” “Neti, Neti” and “Difficult Pleasures,” a short story…
August 2, 2014
Love in the Time of Insurgency – Book Review
Love is such a strong emotion that strives even when we see violence all around us. At least, that is…
August 2, 2014
Surface: Book Review
Surface is a journalistic fiction novel and it tells the story about a journalist, Amit Singh who is working in…
August 2, 2014
Spotting Veron & Other Stories – Book Review
The stories in this collection are very real and describe the basic instinct in us that makes us to react…
August 2, 2014
Static at the threshold: Review of Mitra Phukan’s ‘A Monsoon of Music’
At a time when uncalled excitements seems to be the trend of most of the new and young writers of…