Bookless in Baghdad / Book Review

To, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, 97 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-03 Tel: 24644035 Fax: 24654158 Subject: – A letter asking for apology Respected Sir, Like a scale firmly settled on a pipe, refusing to budge, the image that I have conjured up of your alleged persona from the various newspaper co-eds and news channels, preceded […]

Sense and Sensibility / Book Review

To say that I am pleased with myself would indeed be an understatement. I am extremely pleased with myself! Yup, I have completed Sense and Sensibility! It was a great, difficult journey with a treacherous winding path (long sentences!), never did I feel I am reading a sugary slop which what these YA writers pass […]

Chanakya’s Chant / Book Review

All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. It is up for grabs for anyone to take, if he is willing enough to be wily enough! In Chanakya’s Chant, Ashwin Sanghi has championed utter deviation […]

Honour Among Thieves / Book Review

Honor Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Who exactly was Saddam Hussein? That was the first question that popped up in my mind after completing this novel. This is what the Guardian has to write about this tyrannical ruler who controlled Iraq for over a period of 24 years with […]

Sethji / Book Review

Sethji by Shobhaa Dé My rating: 1 of 5 stars You wouldn’t have expected a book that plastic-y from a “veteran” author such as Shobhaa De. Maybe once upon a time in a distant, ancient, rural and rustic India, such indecency would have shocked the people of this country and indeed would have made her […]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Third Wheel /Book Review

The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney My rating: 4 of 5 stars I just hacked a book in 2 hours at Crossword. And, this was my first Wimpy Kid book, and boy, I loved it!! And do I feel guilty reading a kid’s book? Not at all. After all the way I behave, […]

Deception Point / Book Review

That’s why they call him a master of spine-chillers. He indeed knows how to rev up the book with the speedometer always pointing above 100 kilometers per hour. What the jacket of the book promises, Dan Brown delivers. ‘Deception Point’ has been the only book by Dan Brown that I had not previously read, better […]

Who Let The Dork Out / Book Review

Who Let The Dork Out? by Sidin Vadukut My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dear Diary, Today, I completed a wonderful book! As you know Diary, ‘Who let the Dork out?’ is the third Book in the Dork Series by the Mint editor and Twitter chirping Peacock Sidin Vadukut. But of course, this is his […]

The Picture of Dorian Gray / Book Review

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde My rating: 3 of 5 stars To create a self-delusional character takes a genius. And indeed ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a literary masterpiece by the genius playwright Oscar Wilde. Well, there happens to be a lot many books that I ventured out in my nascent […]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in general!!!!!!

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nobody can ever match the lively and sprightly good old fun that the Hitchhiker’s trilogy in four parts exudes. Mr. Adams has a knack of making us laugh through his quick witted one-liners and comic situations. I am […]