Book Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling

Normally, people cannot associate a meandering pace with a detective novel. A detective novel has to be race against time, it has to be a high stakes game; the protagonist has to be silent, brooding types possessing higher degree of eccentricity and clairvoyance. But reality is scarcely romantic. Cormoran Strike is the non-romantic’s Sherlock. He […]

Book Review : Take Me Home

More than the simple lucid style in which she writes, it is that quality of careful and laborious handpicking of the stories of the men and women, each of whom have a different mindset, a different background, a different guiding principle, a unique vision yet a common drive and passion for working for your mater, […]

Book Review : A Salesman’s Lesson by C.R. Jena

A Salesman’s Lessons by C.R. Jena My rating: 3 of 5 stars When I was asked to review this particular book, I thought, ‘Why?’ Because I happened to be far removed from the subject matter. I initially thought what is the relevance of this book for a chemical engineering student, then again what is the […]

‘Arjuna- Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince’ : Book Review

‘Arjuna – Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince’ by Anuja Chandramouli is a healthy if temporary respite from the slew of over-dramatized, barely-researched, ‘so-called’ modern renderings of the Indian classics which have become run-of-the-mill, cash cows for the publishers. Book Stores/ Libraries are inundated with these books and their shelve life, as such is pretty low. […]

Marry Go Round : Book Review

Warm though the morning was, he shivered, as only a confirmed bachelor gazing into the naked face of matrimony can shiver. […]

The Difficulty of Being Good / Book Review

This knowledge I have taught is more arcane than any mystery- consider it completely then act as you choose. Towards the end of the Gita, this is what Krishna told Arjuna. That defines Krishna for me. And to see Gurcharan Das, grudgingly admire him in ‘The Difficulty of Being Good’ (of course he is not […]

The Golden Gate / Book Review

For a book in Verse, here’s the review in verse!!

The Casual Vacancy / Book Review

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling My rating: 3 of 5 stars That’s the truth. Maybe we don’t like it, maybe we brush it under the carpet to delude ourselves that the world is full of good people and good always triumphs over evil. But the world has its fare share of Dursleys. Maybe not […]

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency / Book Review

To paraphrase an old adage, the first impression lingers on. I hated this book for its colonial undertones (not against the Africans as much against the Indians)and I still do. But, yet I find it a delightful and engrossing book to read. More so, as the world sketched in this book was totally alien to […]

Fooled by Randomness / Book Review

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson I am very much interested to know what Mr. Taleb has to say about that! Because I don’t think he is at all shallow……….. The other day, I was watching ‘Luck‘, an utterly conventional Bollywood movie – it […]