The predictable plot twists and stonewashed themes are drawbacks, but the subtly etched characters make the book worth reading.
In her sequel to The Englishman’s Cameo, Madhulika Liddle manages to tell Mughal murder mysteries with aplomb.
Sex, real and imagined, desired and forced, implied and overt, attempted and unfulfilled; a strange spectrum is travelled by reading this book.
If you’re going to enjoy this novel, you must employ a rare degree of suspension of disbelief.
It’s easier to understand time when so much of it seems to stagnate, churn, curdle, and recycle in front of you.
28 vignettes of campus life, covering the Amazing Technicolor Life that school and college are made out to be.
There’s no space on screen for even an extra inch of flesh. Or, for that matter, in T.V. shows, advertisements, billboards, music videos, or even in our own heads.
The mystery remains intact in Ruskin Bond’s original short story, and the suspense is held captive under a gravestone—or seven.
This part-travelogue, part-reverie helps reinvent Goa, a place that is largely misunderstood.
