Book Name: Biswin Sadi Memoirs Author: Jamil Urfi Publisher: Cinnamon Teal Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: In this memoir, the author recounts his experiences of growing up in Delhi during a period of ‘Biswin Sadi’– the 20th century, when it felt like…
Book Name: When I Hit You Author: Meena Kandasamy Publisher: Juggernaut Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him…
Book Name: A Girl Like That Author: Tanaz Bhathena Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4.5/5 Book Burb: Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their…
Book Title: Mr. Iyer Goes to War Author: Ryan Lobo Pages: 215 Publisher: Bloomsbury Rating: 3.5/5 Story in a nutshell: Beginning in an old age home located near River Ganges in the city of Varanasi, the novel follows the adventures…
Book Review: Dark Diamond by Shazia Omar Book Name: Dark Diamond Author: Shazia Omar Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9385936468 Number of Pages: 229 Rating: 3.8/5 Story in a nutshell: ‘All that they cherish shall perish’. Kalinoor, the dark variant of the…
Book Review- A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov Book Name: A Country Doctor’s Notebook Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Number of pages: 23 Rating: 4/5 Story in a nutshell: The story begins with Dr. Bomgard who is the narrator in a…
Book Review: Mornings After by Tharun James Jimani Book Name: Mornings After Author: Tharun James Jimani Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9789385436468 Number of Pages: 266 Overall Rating: 4/5 Reviewed by: Sai Prasanna P. Story in a nutshell: Sonya works in the…
Book Name: Inflection Authors: Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.2/5 Book Blurb: Real careers are not perfect. Professional success is not absolute. People shape careers and then over time, careers shape people. Feb 1999. The batch of…
Book Name: Tropical Detective: A Hari Majestic Mystery Author: Zac O’Yeah Genre: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: Part of the Hari Majestic series, in Tropical Detective Hari grows up, gets serious and travels to Sweden in his first ever…
Do We Not Bleed (Book Review) by Mehr Tarar Book Name: Do We Not Bleed Author: Mehr Tarar Publisher: Aleph Rating: 3.7/5 Blurb: Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistani is a passionate, illuminating book about contemporary Pakistan. Comprising…
Book Name: Why I Killed the Mahatma Author: Koenraad Elst Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: It is common knowledge that Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in 1948 by a Hindu militant, shortly after India had both gained her independence and lost…
Book Name: Born To Be Hanged Author: Syeda Hameed Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto held the reins of the country from 1971 to 1977. He was overthrown in 1977 by his Chief of Army…