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…
Category: Book Review
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 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
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…
July 16, 2014
Book Review : Che in Paona Bazaar
Book Blurb : North-East India is not an ‘imagined community’, separated from the politics and policies that govern the rest…
July 1, 2014
Kafka on the Shore – A book review !
This is very different kind of book, different in the sense that you don’t hate the book while you can’t…
June 1, 2014
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami- a review
It has been some time that I have been procrastinating reading this book- say for almost two years due…
April 15, 2014
Book Review – The Blood Red Sari
Mani Padma once mentioned Ashok Banker in a chat and I was reminded of his books. More specifically the book…
March 15, 2014
Kaleidoscope- Different Strokes for Different Folk, a book review
Article by Sanhita Baruah Title: Kaleidoscope- Different Strokes for Different Folks Published by: Parlance…