It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Wonder why I would open a travel blog with a Dickensian quote? At the face of it, and in a […]
Athens and Santorini
Doha, Qatar
For me, Doha just happened. Yes truly. We were travelling to Greece for the summers and the best and most economical option to fly was the Qatar Airways. I had never flown […]
Book Review: The Guardian
I had no intention of reading this book till about Friday, which was 2 days back. I had bought a pack of three Nicholas Sparks back in 2008 from a book sale […]
Book Review: Never Let Me Go
It was only by chance that I picked up this book from a person de-cluttering his stock of books on Facebook. I had a faint recollection of the author (Kazuo Ishiguro) from […]
Book Review: A Wild Sheep Chase
This is one of Murakami’s first novels (infact written before his bestseller Norwegian Wood) and my third Murakami read (after Kafka on the Shore and After Dark). The plot and the characters […]
Book Review: Chowringhee
What happens when a “wide eyed adolescent from the small neighborhood of Kashundia who had, years ago, crossed the Ganga on the steamer Amba from Ramkeshtopur Ghat to gape at the […]
Book Review: After Dark
Mari, a girl in her late teens, sits all by herself in a cafe sipping a cup of coffee and reading a novel, quite late into the night. A young jazz musician, on […]
Mistress
“In art, don’t you see, there is no first person” – Oscar Wilde. I had read this book quite some time back, but its memories are still vivid. Radha continues to mesmerise […]
Kafka on the Shore
It was only last week that I wrote in my blog that though I was excited to share my review of “Kafka on the Shore’ but will certainly be some time before […]
In a Free State
V S Naipaul is one of the most celebrated Indian writers of all times and this is his masterpiece having won him the Booker. The credentials of the writer and the book […]
