Ashwini Pratham’s debut novel, Legacy of the Lost Words, is a luminous exploration of love, loss, and the enduring power of memory. Set against the dual backdrops of modern-day Mumbai and 1950s Nandipur, a rural Indian village, the novel weaves…
The Time Traveler’s Wife, published in 2003, is a unique blend of romance and science fiction written by Audrey Niffenegger. The novel follows the complex relationship between Henry DeTamble, a man with a rare genetic disorder that causes him to…
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,…
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…
Rushali Mukherjee's debut publication, Moon Child, is a collection of 100 short poems, mostly, decorated with sketches that accompany each of the poems in this collection published by Bloomsbury India. The book has 100 pages and the same number of…
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…
Poetry writing in Hindi has attracted a lot of writers recently to express their feelings with the audience. Though we can arguably claim that the popularity of Hindi poetry gained the contemporary traction after the fame received by the likes…
