Archives for 2016
From Mind to Keyboard by Sheela Jayawant
From Mind to keyboard, edited by Sheela Jayawant is a collection of personal stories of 30 or so writers talking about their writing journeys. Sheela Jayawant writes a very popular…
Amir Khusrau – The Man in Riddles by Ankit Chadha
Amir Khusrau- The Man in Riddles by Ankit Chadha Amir Khusrau - you have probably heard him, even if you do not know you have. If you have been to…
Evading the Shadows by Rajesh M Iyer
Evading the Shadows by Rajesh M Iyer is a slice of Mahabharata - albeit laced with author's own imagination and fascination. I always say that Mahabharata is one story that…
The Future of Reading – Where does it lie?
The Future of Reading Is the future of reading in the dystopian world of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in which books are banned? Or is it in the foreseeable event…
Askew – A short Biography of Bangalore by T.J.S. George
Askew – a short biography of Bangalore by T J S George is a really tiny book. Small in size, some 112 pages that are neatly divided into segments. Easy…
A House without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
A House without Windows by Nadia Hashimi takes you to the women's world in remote Afghanistan. Yes, the story is not based in urban Kabul but in a remote village.…
Guardian of Paradise by W E Lawrence
Guardian of Paradise by W E Lawrence takes you to a paradise like the tiny island in South Pacific sea. Island is a couple of days of sail away from Australia, inhabited…
The Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal
The Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal attempts to expand the horizon of his earlier book 'The Land of Seven Rivers'. I had quite enjoyed reading that book, so it…
Anything But Khamosh – Shatrughan Sinha Biography
Anything But Khamosh - Biography of Shatrughan Sinha gets as candid as possible. I picked up this book like any Indian who has grown up watching Indian films and is…
Brahmi – Rediscovering the Lost Script by Ankita Roy & Malay Mandal
Brahmi – Rediscovering the Lost Script by Ankita Roy & Malay Mandal Brahmi - the mother script of most Indian and Asian scripts, to a large extent its journey and…