How Much the Heart Can Hold by [anthology] Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, Grace McCleen, Donal Ryan, Nikesh Shukla, D.W. Wilson; Sceptre (September 3, 2016);… Read more “Facets of Love”
Month: June 2018
Mutual Passion, Death and Liberation
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami; Vintage Books (September 12, 2000); 296 pages; INR 587 (Amazon.in) Rating: 4.0/5.0 The title is oddly reminiscent of the very lyrical character… Read more “Mutual Passion, Death and Liberation”
The Man and The Politician
Standing Guard by P. Chidambaram; Rupa Publications India (March 9, 2016); 226 pages; INR (Amazon.in) Rating: 3.0/5.0 Chidambaram is mired in quite a bit of controversy in… Read more “The Man and The Politician”
Hilarious, Scary and Strange
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol; HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1836); 31 pages; INR 524 (Amazon.in — Used copies) Rating: 5.0/5.0 I’ve always wanted to read at least one… Read more “Hilarious, Scary and Strange”
An Emotion, Not Just a City
Calcutta: A City Remembered by Jug Suraiya; Times Group Book (January 1, 2006); 127 pages; INR 177 (Amazon.in — Kindle Edition) Rating: 3.5/5.0 Being brought up as a probashi… Read more “An Emotion, Not Just a City”
Genocide and Humanity
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch; Picador USA (September 4, 1999); 356 pages; INR 558 (Amazon.in)… Read more “Genocide and Humanity”
Of a strident Right
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul; Harpercollins (September 13, 2016); 552 pages; INR 468 (Amazon.in) Rating: 4.0/5.0 If you were looking to… Read more “Of a strident Right”
Of Irreconcilable love and infidelities
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera; Harper Perennial (1984); 320 pages; INR 349 (Amazon.in) Rating: 5.0/5.0 The book picks up words and suffuses them with new… Read more “Of Irreconcilable love and infidelities”
The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
India After Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha; Perennial Publishers (April 20, 2017); 912 pages; INR450 (Amazon.in) Rating: 4.0/5.0 If you ever believed in the old adage: ‘history repeats… Read more “The History of the World’s Largest Democracy”
