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Book review: Saris and the City by Rekha Waheed
by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Yasmin Yusuf is a thirty-year-old Deshi girl, a Bengali babe with a career working in an equity firm in London. Yet she is looking for the Mr Right. (p.8) She is dating Sam,...
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Book Review: Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Book review by Bhargavi I have always believed that liking a book is almost like a self fulfilling prophesy. If you decide to like something, you will most likely end up liking it. That’s what happened...
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Book Review : Highway On My Plate
by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma have a hugely popular television show called Highway on my Plate. Both the men have a zest for life that is evident throughout the book. They...
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Book Review: Blue shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
by Manjulika Pramod Blue shoes and Happiness has a unique and an attractive title that embodies its theme perfectly. The book carries a message of ‘goodness and ‘joy’. We all chase happiness but seldom...
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by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Vaibhav, is a twenty-three-year old engineer, who has recently moved to Delhi to work with a wildlife organization. Having been brought up in a “government” family, he has so...
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Review: Chanakya’s Chant by Ashwin Sanghi
by Chitra Raman The title of the book indicated that it had something to do with Chanakya and that was tempting enough to buy the book. But the antique bronze look to the cover made it even more...
View ArticleBook Review: No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully
by Sunil Banerjee No Full Stops in India is yet another series of stories strung together about India and its people by the loveable, itinerant raconteur, the irrepressible Mr. Mark Tully. Published by...
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Book Review: The Trial of True Love by William Nicholson
by Manjulika Pramod One word that describes the book best is ‘Love-ly’. True love has been the eternal desire of both men and women. Often it is discussed with interest– Does it really exist and if it...
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Book Review: India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion
According to conventional wisdom, books (even as you write them) have a tendency to take on a life of their own. A shape of their own; an agenda of their own. Anthologies are no different. To start...
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Book Review: The Persecution of Madhav Tripathi
by Parvati Sharma Until page 42 of The Persecution of Madhav Tripathi, I wasn’t sure where the book was going. This isn’t always a bad thing, but it can stop you properly getting into a book. Then, on...
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