books

Book Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A coming-of-age story, there is something about Stephen Chbosky’s book that is wildly reminiscent of The Wonder Years.

Book Review: Revolution 2020

When Chetan Bhagat’s characters are in love, they don’t just love each other, they own each other.

Book Review: The Girl in the Garden

The predictable plot twists and stonewashed themes are drawbacks, but the subtly etched characters make the book worth reading.

Book Review: The Eighth Guest & Other Muzaffar Jang Mysteries

In her sequel to The Englishman’s Cameo, Madhulika Liddle manages to tell Mughal murder mysteries with aplomb.

Book Review: Slither

Sex, real and imagined, desired and forced, implied and overt, attempted and unfulfilled; a strange spectrum is travelled by reading this book.

From Blogger to Writer

There is nothing wrong with being an academician. But writing was what I was meant for. Right?

Book Review: Custody

The author reveals the many facets of human nature, where custody battles become a way of trumping one another in a divorce.

Book Review: Broken Republic

Expect an interesting amalgamation of experience, debate, passion, flashes of brilliant insight, and a fair amount of hyperbole.

Book Review: Murder in the Ashram

If you’re going to enjoy this novel, you must employ a rare degree of suspension of disbelief.

Scheherazade’s 1001 Arabian Nightmares

Once upon a time, in a book rife with lies, Princess Scheherazade spent one thousand and one nights in bed with Prince Shahriyar… speaking.

Good Indian Girls Don’t

A not-so-samajdar-beti decides to take a year off from academia, fly off to the city of her birth, and start working on her first novel.

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice?

Madhuri Banerjee, author of bestselling novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas spoke to us about her book, love, lust, and what losing one’s virginity might mean to people in India.