Bhumi by Tina Sequeira consists of 26 short stories, and is 121 pages long. The first story, ‘Amma,’ is character driver rather than plot driven. Although the male protagonist has a stereotypical perspective of his...
Finding your Writing Flow by Sona Grover starts off with a bang with a lovely quote. The first chapter doesn’t say anything new, although it makes a good point- we should be aware of...
The title story of Murder in the Palace and Other Stories by Priya Bajpai has a big cast of characters, so it’s difficult to keep them straight without distinguishing marks. Formatting direct speech would...
Deal of Death opens with an element of mystery. The blue eyes appear throughout and are menacing, with the lack of detail. The story moves fast. We feel for detective Raya Ray- by starting...
At 60 pages, A to Z of Mental Health by Arjun Gupta is a quick read. It is quite meaty though. The author touches on different aspects of mental health, bringing a unique perspective...
Mahak Wadhwani has great style and Diary of a Baby- Candid Confessions of a baby from 0-2 years is funny too. The kid is an imp- knowing he has his parents dancing to his...
I read Mani Rao’s transcreation in poetry of the Bhagavad Gita. By using contemporary language like Famous Five to talk about the Pandavas, she has made the Gita much more accessible. I’d like to...
I expected more from Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire. Spies in Elizabethan England seemed a deadly combination. Since the sequel to Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, was also powerful, I thought...
Things a Little Bird Told Me by Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone for the most part reads like a fast paced novel. It reminded me strongly of Silicon Valley. Especially the part where he talks...
This was a thrilling book. Since it dealt with writers, I found it all the more interesting. It did tend to get a bit melodramatic though. That’s when the author would insert Malcolm’s deranged...