Author: Oswald Pereira Publisher: Grey Oak/ Westland Price: 245/- Pages: 266 The Indian fiction is picking up steam with people courting apart from the usual romance, college genres. It was enjoyable to see a book dealing with a new theme woven around the fourth estate. The book is set in the backdrop of Mumbai, plodding [...]
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Author: John Grisham Publisher: Hachette India Price: 350/- Pages: 436 I have always loved John Grisham’s style of writing and the legal genre he writes, starting from “The Firm”, “The Pelican Brief”, “The Client” and many more. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading his works and when the latest in line “The Litigators” was released I [...]
Author: Ronald Malfi Publisher: Grey Oak/Westland Price: 225/- Pages: 303 I was reading the author for the first time, and the genre which seemed more like a mountaineering travelogue. The book actually turned out to be very different, it would actually fall into thriller more than the travelogue. The story is set in picturesque mountains [...]
Author: Anonymous Publisher: Grey Oak/Westland Price: 175/- Pages: 175 This book caught my attention especially due to the interesting title and a more interesting the anonymous author. The book is a story of a small but ambitious accountant, Hitesh Patel, in a large audit firm, who gets into the maze of political & corporate sleaze [...]
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Author: Sidin Vadukut Publisher: Penguin Books Price: 199/- Pages: 240 I had reviewed Sidin’s first book Dork some time back, if you haven’t read about it you can read it here. I have been following Sidin on his blog (which he hardly updated these days) and twitter (which is a frequently updated medium) since a [...]
Author: Neeraj Chhibba Publisher: Rupa Price: 140/- Pages: 257 I had reviewed Neeraj’s first book Zero Percentile around two years back. I liked that book and thought it was a really good attempt at the story telling. When I saw his second book I knew that I had to read it and hence I got [...]
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Author: Jug Suraiya Publisher: Tranquebar Price: 495/- Pages: 350 Anyone who has grown up in the 80s and 90s is not unfamiliar with the name of Jug Suraiya especially with his columns in The Times of India. His columns like Jugular Vein and Dubyaman have been a part and parcel of like of thousands of [...]
Books are again one of my favorite past time and interests and given that I read a lot choosing 4 books becomes very difficult. Obviously both Urban Shots & Down The Road are not included in the list though they are special to me more than any other book. So here goes the list of [...]
Author: Preeti Shenoy Publisher: Srishti Publishers Price: 100/- Life Is What You Make It (LIWYMI) is the latest book by Preeti Shenoy, and I was more than looking forward to it; not only because her last book was a bestseller but also because this was the first time she was moving away from (my perception [...]
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So my feed reader, newspaper, televisions, and both real and virtual discussions are all packed with the same event. The untimely death of Osama Bin Laden, untimely as it happened tad too late. So while the whole world is going gaga over it finding conspiracy theories if he is still alive, was he killed after [...]
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