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LATEST ARTICLES ( 560 )
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Yes, My Accent is Real – Kunal Nayyar – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Of all the charming misfits on television, there’s no doubt Raj from The Big Bang Theory — the sincere yet incurably geeky Indian-American... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Rise of Hastinapur – Sharath Komarraju – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: For the story of the Great War is also the story of the women…Amba lives for revenge, but circumstances and men conspire against her. Will her... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Winds of Hastinapur – Sharath Komarraju – A Second Reading
Given that I am going to read the second book of The Hastinapur series by Sharath Komarraju (The Rise of Hastinapur) sometime soon as an ‘early reader’ of the... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
After The Crash – Michel Bussi – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Palm’s Foster Home for Peculiar Stories – CG Salamander – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: NIGEL THE LAST BRIT IN INDIAThere is chaos and pandemonium in the streets of Madras, and it is up to Nigel (an officer of the Imperial Police)... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Farthest Field – Raghu Karnad – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: A brilliantly conceived nonfiction epic, a war narrated through the lives and deaths of a single family.The photographs of three young men had... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: In this adrenaline-charged thriller, genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face a dangerous new threat and must again... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
For Love and Honour – Anand Ranganathan – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Even as Kapil Dev lifts the 1983 World Cup, thousands of miles away, in the dense jungles of Mizoram, a secret mission stands compromised. At... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Paradise City – Elizabeth Day – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: A novel that seeks to answer big questions—of love and death, ambition and failure, responsibility and guilt—with a rich cast of characters fro... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Hollow Mountain – Thomas Mogford – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: The late-morning sun beats down on the Rock of Gibraltar as bored tourists photograph the Barbary Apes. A child’s scream pierces the silence... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Pelican Brief – Movie Review
The Pelican Brief (based on a book by the same name authored by John Grisham) starts off with the assassinations of two US Supreme Court justices, and how law... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Surprising Science of Happiness – Dan Gilbert – TEDx Talk
I recently saw this wonderful TEDx video by Dan Gilbert, The surprising science of happiness which raised some wonderfully thought provoking questions about... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Chimera – NJ Tanger – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: On the verge of extinction, the Stephen’s Point colony must take desperate measures to save themselves. Without communication or resupply from... Read more
Posted on 04 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Story of Surya and Aruna
Regular readers of Mahabore’s Mumblings will know my affinity towards Indian mythology and the lesser known tales from the same. This post marks my return to... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
There Are Many Reasons Why I Write and ‘Money’ is Not in the Top 5.
mahabore:This post is a must read for all the aspiring young Indian writers out there…. Originally posted on Ravi Subramanian: This piece written by me was... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Junkyard Planet – Adam Minter – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Edge of Tomorrow – Movie Review
I have always liked well made sci-fi movies, well made action movies, well made Tom Cruise movies and therefore when all three of them came together in Edge of... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Alex – Pierre LeMaitre – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Read more
Posted on 19 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Irene – Pierre LeMaitre – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène.But his blissful existence i... Read more
Posted on 13 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Mime Order – Samantha Shannon – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she i... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION