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: Chowringhee
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 […]
Half of a Yellow Sun
Set in the 1960s with the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil war, Half of a Yellow Sun could have very easily been a novel on the brutalities of war; gut wrenching realities […]
Book Review: The Inheritance of Loss
An old retired judge from the pre Independence era, a granddaughter mired in her past and unsure about her future, a cook and his disillusioned son, trying to make ends meet in […]
Book Review: Clear Light of Day
The book opens with Tara being stirred awake by the koels calling at day break. As she walks down the garden of the house reminiscing about the past, Bim comes across. And […]
Book Review: Transmission
This book by Hari Kunzru was a surprise pick for me. I had never imagined that this little bundle of just about 280 pages will have such an entangling effect on me. […]
