Preety has been superbly artistic in dealing with the theme that is romantic, realistic, social, youthful, back in time and, most importantly, TRUE – yes, Cross Connection is based on the academic years of Preety and his husband, Praveen. Yes,…
Aravind Adiga's debut novel The White Tiger had claimed much fame, masterpiece title, critical favours and, the most essential of them all and also the root cause of everything else, the 2008 Man Booker Prize. And since then, the novel…
“It is her journey. Let her learn through her own experiences. It takes courage and fearlessness to do what Meru did at her level. Her motive was to be with her grandmother with pure love. Her selfless nature will help…
Retrace Love, as a novel, stands out to me for many reasons but the main reasons are very important and I will be highlighting the same in this book review for The Last Critic. Without much ado, I will come…
This year is not going to be remembered as the worst one… not for all but for the bookworms who have used these days of fewer outings, past lockdowns and self-isolation period to read their favourite, new and accidental books.…
2020 has not been a year worth remembering other than keeping a note of the important lessons that we learnt. However, for a reader, like me, who read a lot in their leisure, this year has brought unsolicited opportunity to…
The Memoirs of a Nobody is a recently published novel authored by P. Sam. At the outset, it appeared to be a novel more likely to be a mere memoir of a girl who started with childish acts and went…
In today's fiction, nothing is unusual. We do have a few benchmarks, or touchstones, as Matthew Arnold called, to judge the works by others – whether original or not. Well, this benchmark philosophy may not go well with coming of…
Let's get straight into the topic, briefly, before we begin getting into the details while doing a book review of The Shambala Sutras by Aurijit Ganguli. The very debut novel of Mr Ganguli, The Shambala Sutras, is the book which…
Kanthapura is a novel by Raja Rao, the famous Indian novelist, takes you back to the time when India was a slave of Britishers and struggling for her freedom. The book takes you the time when caste system was heavily…
