Fiction

The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose

The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose – Book Review

Reading Time: 5 minutes The most interesting twist is the creation of a separate state for women. The new state is for women and by women, where men would have special reservation rights, and live to play reverse traditional gender roles. It’s like a utopia of sorts for women, and the initiator of the movement to create it was a fisherwoman from Colaba. All in all, The Illuminated is a dull story that falls short of what it promises to be.

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Review of A Dark and Shiny Place by Pragati Deshmukh

A Dark and Shiny Place by Pragati Deshmukh – Book Review

Reading Time: 4 minutes Rating: 3/5 To be honest, I enjoyed reading A Dark and Shiny Place. But enjoying the novel cover to cover was a challenge. It has more than a few flaws, which consistently distract you. Nonetheless, A Dark and Shiny Plan is not the worst book I’ve read recently. Unlike other stupid books from new others,

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“Contamination” by Richa Lakhera – Book Review

Reading Time: 3 minutes The first that struck me when I got my hands on Richa Lakhera’s Contamination was actor Manoj Bajpayee’s comment: “Brilliant. Standout. Richa Lakhera writes vividly of the wicked.”And that set a lot of expectations from the book. After all, very few play wicked better than Mr Bajpayee himself.  To be honest, the book met most

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The Muslim Vanishes by Saeed Naqvi - Book Review

The Muslim Vanishes by Saeed Naqvi – Book Review

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Muslim Vanishes is probably the most political fiction since Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence. Saeed Naqvi brilliantly captures the underlying crux of the growing Hindutva extremism in the country. While the author propagates more than a few controversial viewpoints, the primary objective of this unique play is right on the button.

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Farside – Everybody Has Another Side - Book Review

Farside – Everybody Has Another Side – Book Review

Reading Time: 3 minutes The story of Jaishankar Krishnamurthy’s and Krishna Udayashankar’s Farside is as simple as the title sounds. The book is what a good eight-part Netflix series could be about. It’s got it all – greed, gambling, blackmail, escorts, and politics. If you’re looking to spend a chilly winter Saturday at home, Farside could give you good company. Here’s

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Sherlock Holmes Novel, "The Valley of Fear"– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Book Review

The Valley of Fear – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Book Review

Reading Time: 4 minutes About a year ago, if someone would’ve asked me what makes a good story, I would talk in detail on the subject. However, now I can simply answer, “Whatever Sir Arthur wrote was a good story!”, a great story, in fact. After completing The Valley of Fear, the last in the famous Sherlock Holmes novels,

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The Perfect Wife by Blake Pierce – Google’s Best Kept Literary Secret

The Perfect Wife by Blake Pierce – Google’s Best Kept Literary Secret

Reading Time: 4 minutes Reading The Perfect Wife was like arriving at a natural haven without ever realizing that it existed. In short, I am speechless. That’s how good Blake Pierce is, and I still cannot fathom that I never heard of him before. I found this book for free on the Google Store, and I cannot thank God

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Sons of Fortune – Jeffrey Archer – Book Review

Sons of Fortune – Jeffrey Archer – Book Review

Reading Time: 5 minutes Jeffrey Archer is one of the most popular authors alive, with hundreds of millions of copies sold around the world. However, I haven’t had a chance to get my hands on his works until recently. That said, I’d heard high praises for him from my colleagues and friends. Hence, I always had an interest in

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The Hound of the Baskervilles- Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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The Idiot – Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky- prince myshkin

The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Book Review

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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The Emperors Riddles - Satyarth Nayak

The Emperors Riddles – Satyarth Nayak

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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