Intersections by Gautam Mengle's

Gautam Mengle’s Intersections Open for Pre-Booking, Launch on Oct 12

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Intersections, the debut novel of senior journalist Gautam Mengle will go on sale on October 12. In a tweet, Westland Books, an Amazon subsidiary, announced on Tuesday that the book is available for pre-order on Amazon.in. Set in the city of dreams (and underworld), Mumbai, “Intersections” is a crime thriller, involving a police inspector, a …

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The Hound of the Baskervilles- Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, third in the Sherlock Holmes series, is one of the best mysteries I’ve ever read. It’s like running a 400-meter race. You run the first hundred meters quick, then subsidize and maintain a sustainable speed for the next 200 meters, and then dash and sprint …

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Thematic Elements in Shudraka’s Mrichchakatika (The Little Clay Cart)

Thematic Elements in Shudraka’s Mrichchakatika (The Little Clay Cart)

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Reading Time: 13 minutes Introduction to Shudraka’s Mrichchakatika (The Little Clay Cart) Sudraka’s Mrichchakatika is among the earliest known plays of Sanskrit Literature. It is widely celebrated as one of the first plays to skip the narration from the perspective of the royals or nobles and depict the life of a common village populace. The underlying story of this …

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Pamela An Epistolary Novel By Samuel Richardson

Pamela An Epistolary Novel By Samuel Richardson

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction The evolution of the novel happened over a period of centuries before it took the form we witness today. There have been several landmark contributions to the development of storytelling all over the world. One book, however, which remains ground-breaking in various aspects is Pamela. Written by Samuel Richardson, Pamela is widely regarded as …

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What Makes a Good Story?

What Makes a Good Story?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Stories have been part of cultures around the world for thousands of years. They helped shape our societies for centuries and continue to do so even today. However, in modern times, stories, in the form of novels, have become one of the major sources of entertainment. They no longer are limited to the privileged class …

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A Study in Scarlet- Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In all of the English novels written in the past couple of centuries, very few characters have gone on to become as popular and iconic as Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s imaginary detective gained legendary status much before Robert Downey Jr. portrayed the character in blockbuster movies. Written way back in 1887, A Study …

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Chetan Bhagat and the Marketing Beast

Chetan Bhagat and The Marketing Beast

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Since the beginning of the millennium, there hasn’t been an author in India as influential and polarizing as Chetan Bhagat. He has achieved almost everything that aspiring India dreams of a famed academic double – IIT + IIM, a million-dollar investment banking job with likes of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank, and multiple best-selling titles …

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William Wordsworth and His Contribution to Romantic Poetry

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Introduction to Romanticism of William Wordsworth History has seldom witnessed a person who instigated a genre of any art form and the same person going on to become the epitome of it. Take movies, for example. The first-ever movie was directed by a Frenchman named Louis Le Prince. However, instead of Prince, it’s the likes …

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The Idiot – Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- prince myshkin

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Book Review

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote The Idiot in the late 19th Century, and it continues to be one of the best novels ever written in the world, across all languages and genres. Dostoyevsky, inarguably one of the greatest novelists ever, authored the book originally in Russian, in 1869. David Magarshack translated the book into English in the …

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Tales of Man Singh - Kenneth Anderson

Tales of Man Singh – Kenneth Anderson

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Tales of Man Singh is the book for you if you’re even remotely interested in the legendary dacoits of the Chambal Valley. Kenneth Anderson wonderfully takes the reader in the pre-independence era and the early years of independence. She creates a sketch of rural India the way it actually was, which wasn’t ideal, to …

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The Emperors Riddles - Satyarth Nayak

The Emperors Riddles – Satyarth Nayak

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Emperors Riddles is one of those books which will keep reminding you of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. It adds a breath of freshness and uniqueness to it, though. The story brings to life the colourful and holy streets of Varanasi and takes you to an unprecedented cultural journey. Satyarth Nayak successfully encapsulates …

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