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LATEST ARTICLES ( 560 )
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The Hanging – Lotte and Soren Hammer – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Money Wise – Sharath Komarraju – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Do you obsess about money and yet not talk about it with parents or friends – and barely enough with the spouse? Do you worry about how much yo... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Mumbai Avengers – S Hussain Zaidi – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Five years after 26/11 – the siege of terror in Mumbai that brought the country to its knees – India still seeks justice. Read more
Posted on 18 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Before We Met – Lucie Whitehouse – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: Hannah, independent, headstrong, and determined not to follow in the footsteps of her bitterly divorced mother, has always avoided commitment. Read more
Posted on 15 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Debt Collector’s Due – Adhirath Sethi – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: There comes a day in every boy’s life when he needs to sit down and decide what to do with the rest of it. But our layabout hero, Samay, slept... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Kapil Dev Ki Ek Nayi League
Not too many cricket fans from the 1980s can forget the sight of a fully charged up ‘Haryana Hurricane’ Kapil Dev charging in through his run up to the popping... Read more
Posted on 07 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Autobiography of a Mad Nation – Sriram Karri – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: “I was born in a mentally retarded nation.” – Thus begins this provocative, stylish, and racy literary rant against India by a... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Scatter Here Is Too Great – Bilal Tanweer – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories, The Scatter Here Is Too Great explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedl... Read more
Posted on 29 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
City of Spies – Sorayya Khan – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: ‘God was everywhere, but so was the general.’It is the summer of 1977 and Pakistan swelters in the unrelenting heat. Read more
Posted on 28 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Special Lassi – Amrita Chatterjee – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: A Backbreaking Misadventure in the Himalayas.A psychedelic odyssey like no other, spanning the exotic foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Read more
Posted on 23 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
MSD: The Man, The Leader – Biswadeep Ghosh – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: The most inspirational story in Indian cricket is that of Mahendra Singh Dhoni.Generations will remember Dhoni for hitting the spectacular... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Lesson – Sowmya Rajendran – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: The adjustment bureau is snowed under with work, the moral police force is on the prowl. The country, but most of all the capital, must live... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Drowning Fish – Swati Chanda – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: ‘And what of those whose roots are planted deep in the soil of their land? What does it take for them to thrive, transplanted?‘East Pakistan,... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Unquiet Ones: A History of Pakistan Cricket – Osman Samiuddin – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF A CRICKET TEAM THE WORLD LOVES TO WATCH BUT IS AT A LOSS TO EXPLAINThe story of Pakistan cricket is dramatic,... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Mandate: Will of the People – Vir Sanghvi – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: This is the first easy-to-read book about recent Indian political history. Pegged on the general elections that shaped today’s India, Mandate:... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Flight of Eagles – Jack Higgins – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi – Makarand R Paranjape – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi is an explosive and original analysis of the assassination of the ‘Father of the Nation’. Who is... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
The Whole World on Your Plate
The history of Singapore stands testimony to the fact that this city is truly a ‘melting pot’ of various cultures from all over the world. Read more
Posted on 25 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
She Will Build Him a City – Raj Kamal Jha – Book Review
Goodreads blurb: As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up, her child is a puzzle with a million... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION -
Rekindling My Love for Photography
Call it bragging, boasting or blowing my own horn, but the fact is that right from a very young age I have had a knack of looking at things very differently. Read more
Posted on 24 March 2015 SELF EXPRESSION