Book review: the Ink black Heart

This is Robert Galbriath’s ‘Order of Phoenix’ – though I loved that one a lot more. A bulky tome set at a meandering pace, with a decent mystery at its core and an engaging voice of a master storyteller, this book exudes the confidence of a middle-aged man unabashedly, unashamed of his large paunch. J.K. […]

Pulling off a ‘Watchmen’!

Like all great books that I have come to admire, it all started with a rejection. I rejected Harry Potter, because I believed him to be yet another wannabe magician who would pull out a rabbit from his hat. Rejection actually helps – it is a sifting mechanism, though improper, which allows me to focus […]

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 […]

Embrace

Of a Vadodarian, By a Vadodarian, About a Vadodarian!

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 […]

My Mom tells me a Story!

1.1 ‘Mom, tell me a story!’ ‘Which one, dear? I have told you many.’ ‘You know mom! About that Captain you think is zany!’ ‘Oh, I get it. Is it about That Dwarvian lord who mined the Oort cloud?’ ‘No mom, about the one who braved the Horizon, And travelled through the tunnel that hasn’t […]

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 […]

Skyfall

Fuck Jason Bourne. Fuck the Dark Knight. How could be anyone naïve enough to compare them with this guy?

How to avoid beating a well admired Asshole?

If you asked me, “Does he indeed deserve to die?” I would have said, “Yes.” Murukar X was a vicious old fox, a swarthy man with a too visible paunch; he would have been a smudge on the name of beauty pageants if they had unwittingly and inadvertently selected him for their contest. Now-a-days […]

Mumbai Moods

It was four in the morning and a bloody cold at that. I dug my hands deep into the pockets while I watched my friend Ronak gazing out into the night through the open portal of a railway window. Cold air swept in but I think it did not bother him, though I was freezing. […]