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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
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Where the Condor Flies – Curt Longbow
Reading Time: 3 minutes Where the Condor Flies by Curt Longbow is a good read for those interested in American Western thrillers. Sadly, I am not one of them. To be very honest, I
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Top Five Places to Read a Novel in Mumbai
Reading Time: 5 minutes Reading a novel is quite a private affair. A good story sucks you in, cuts you from the world. Until you gulp down the very last word, you’re locked in
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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
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Following your passion in an insanely competitive country like India is almost a philosophical dream that not many are able, or even willing to pursue. And out of all such
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The Lost DNA 2050 by Kava Kamz
Reading Time: 5 minutes The year 2020 has been the most disastrous for human life across the globe since the turn of the millennium. With the Coronavirus Pandemic tightening its grip on mankind, the
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Thematic Elements in Shudraka’s Mrichchakatika (The Little Clay Cart)
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
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It was only yesterday that I finished The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho for the third time, and I think it is the right time to discuss what I feel about
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George Orwell: My Favourite Authors – Part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the last decade, I have had the opportunity to read some of the most exquisite pieces of literature from all over the world. From Russian classics like The Idiot
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Case No. 56 by Chandrashekar Nagawaram
Reading Time: 3 minutes Detective novels are something that I am not familiar with, but I seem to like them the more I read. While I read a couple of James Hadley Chase novels
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Reading Time: 5 minutes I took a liking to read novels only when I was in college, which frankly is quite late. It is not that I was away from books, as our school
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Reading Time: 3 minutes To simply say what The White Tiger is, I want you to read the below excerpt from the novel: ‘One day a cunning Brahmin, trying to trick the Buddha, asked
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The Sign Of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reading Time: 2 minutes I read the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, last month, but did not find it as interesting as people portray it to be. However, The Sign of
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Pamela An Epistolary Novel By Samuel Richardson
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
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The Blue Umbrella – Ruskin Bond
Reading Time: 3 minutes During my childhood, when I had no clue about novels, I heard a name that some of the teachers would say at the school library – Ruskin Bond. Though I
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What Makes a Good Story?
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
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Animal Farm – George Orwell
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this world where injustice is a part of common life, revolution, and rebellion are a dream for millions. Be it Palestine, Kashmir, Cuba, or Brazil, the oppressed want to
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A Collection of Short Stories – Munshi Premchand
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whenever I walk past my school, the DPYA High School in Dadar Parsee Colony, my heart aches. Every single memory from the good old days comes to life. I feel
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Five Books to Read for Beginners
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are two kinds of people in this world. One, who read books, and the others, who want to read books. Inherently, every human being loves a good story, and
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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
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Chetan Bhagat and The Marketing Beast
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
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1984 By George Orwell – Book Review
Reading Time: 3 minutes War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength These are the words that send chills down your soul on several occasions while reading George Orwell’s magnum opus, “1984”. It
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William Wordsworth and His Contribution to Romantic Poetry
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
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Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Reading Time: 2 minutes Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho is easily one of the best novels to read for the most part until the last 5 pages ruin it completely. A young girl
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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.
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Calico Joe – John Grisham
Reading Time: 2 minutes John Grisham is a world-renowned author known for gripping legal thrillers, and with this expectation, I bought Calico Joe. However, what it turned out to be is one of the
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Tales of Man Singh – Kenneth Anderson
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
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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,