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It shot through the sky. 4-tiny engines, pushing against its momentum, preparing it for a gentle handshake. Do you think I am fidgeting too much, breaking up the tenuous bonds of water molecules lying thinly on my surface? Well, I am new at this – don’t test me! I see it now – the fiery […]
Read More First TimeContempt. Zipping her lips, she forced air inside her barrel-like nostrils, to push down the bile rising at the back of her throat. Use ‘contempt’ in a sentence: Rabdi Zeek was feeling contemptuous of her body. Her cheeks felt like the moon – cratered and dry. Beautiful, only if you view from a million miles […]
Read More Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder!‘Prithviraj Chauhan’ is by far, the best work of Anuja Chandramouli. Extensively researched, fast-paced, action-packed and full-bodied page turner which marries history and mythology, this helluva book chugs along at the speed of bullet train. Impersonal mythical retelling, no more! Show, not tell, right? While Anuja’s books have always been engaging and well-written, I always […]
Read More Book Review: Prithviraj ChauhanFor one, ‘Kartikeya, the Destroyer’s son’ by Anuja Chandramouli is an incredibly engaging book, it took me under two days to finish it. The mystique of the eponymous character played its part in keeping me hooked as well as the fluid writing style that is so characteristic of Anuja. Sometimes she reminds me of C. […]
Read More Book Review: ‘Kartikeya, the Destroyer’s son’Review: 5 Stars In the end, it is all about conditioning. Right and wrong, it has a reference point. Apart from certain universal moral values, all sets of ideologies differentiate and draw a line. And because it is so deeply enmeshed within the skeleton of the so-called universal moral values, it feels inherently wrong when […]
Read More Book Review: ‘The Help’ by Kathryn StockettReview: 4 stars Discovering a new book is like discovering a new joint to eat, only better. Because in the worst case, suffering from bad writing is better than an upset stomach. So even though desi Chinese sometimes upsets my stomach, I was eager to try out this collection of short stories in ‘The Paper […]
Read More Book Review: ‘The Paper Menagerie & other stories’Review: 5 stars I encountered my Margo Roth Spiegelman when I was in 9th standard. She was not only an image that I had created in my mind – she was also pretty much fictive. Ladies & gentlemen, I was head-over-heels in love with Hermione Granger, and if you had encountered me then, I would […]
Read More Book Review: ‘Paper Towns’Review: 4 stars Reading ‘The Hunger Games’ made me realize that there are actually two kinds of heroes in any story: Rebels and Survivors. Often, rebels are perceived to be better because they refuse to accept the status quo, have a greater sense of what’s right and wrong, and they just cannot stand the oppressive […]
Read More Book Review: ‘The Hunger Games’Review: 2 stars The funny thing is, triffids most certainly do not have their day in ‘The day of the triffids’ by John Wyndham. They are most certainly afterthoughts in a novel that was meant to be specifically about them. The literal and nearly-complete blindness of humanity and the ways in which they deal with […]
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