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LATEST ARTICLES ( 560 )
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Shoot to Shop
When the Indiblogger team sent an invite for a Flipkart event to be held at The Hard Rock Café (yes, you read it right) on 01 Aug, I was sure that this was goin... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a ma... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Finders Keepers – Stephen King – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: 1978: Meet Morris Bellamy, a reader obsessed by novelist John Rothstein, the reclusive genius who created the celebrated fictional character... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The House That BJ Built – Anuja Chauhan – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: I’ll make my sisters squirm like well-salted earthworms. I won’t sell. Even my jutti wont sell. And if I die na, then even my gosht won’t sell! Read more
Posted on 27 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Nari: A Novel – Sharath Komarraju – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Army man found dead in Banjara Hills. Only witnesses – wife and servant. Unconfirmed reports of rape. Can the truth be revealed? Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Trial of 2091 – Sarang Gupta – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: In the year 2091, a Perfect System ensures that no crime goes Unpunished. Then a Murder in a quiet town brings together four people with... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Panther – Chhimi Tenduf La – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: I see you. Legs like toothpicks, body and face all ribs and cheekbones. And that hair. Come on, what is it? Like friggin’ barbed wire. Read more
Posted on 21 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Curse of Surya – Dev Prasad – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Sangeeta Rao, a beautiful, feisty reporter at Channel 7 TV in Singapore, rushes to Agra on a special assignment after an early-morning phone... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
My Honey Diet
I have always been a moderately good eater ever since I can remember. I never used to shy away from eating pretty much anything that was vegetarian and edible;... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Prisoner of Paradise – Romesh Gunesekera – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: When Lucy Gladwell arrives in Mauritius from England to live with her aunt and uncle in their grand plantation house, her mind is full of the... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Bloodline Bandra – Godfrey Joseph Pereira – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: David Cabral is a journalist and also one of the original peepils: an East Indian from Pali Village, which is a viperpit, yes, but a happy,... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Cricket Information – At the Speed of Light
I still remember the days when my grandfather used to rely on his trusted Philips transistor radio and tune into either BBC or Ceylon Radio to get live... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Hadal – CP Surendran – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Taking a break from her job in Maldives, young, attractive and unhappily married Miriam lands in Trivandrum, with the idea of writing a novel. Read more
Posted on 08 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Sleeping on Jupiter – Anuradha Roy – Book Review
Goodreads blurb : A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Ghost Runner – Parker Bilal – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo’s... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Murder With Bengali Characteristics – Shovon Chowdhury – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: A teacher lies dead in a small village near Calcutta. Since the Chinese took over, things in the Bengal Protectorate have been sliding from... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Children, Women, Men – Sundara Ramaswamy – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: This intricately woven narrative is one of the landmark novels of Indian modernism.This ambitious novel, teeming with characters, focuses on th... Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Operation Jai Mata Di – Pratik Shah – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: In a daring midnight operation by armed men, over 10,000 pilgrims are taken hostage en route to the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi, a popular... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Other End of the Corridor – Sujata Rajpal – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: When your dreams are tainted with lies and deceit, you have no other choice but to walk to the other end of the corridor.Leela has nothing... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Deadly Duo
Picture this situation; you are reaching the end of the financial quarter and this has been a terrible quarter, both for your company and your client as well. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION