Tim Tim Raston ke Aks (Hindi) Sanjay Vyas 2014 Hind Yugm pp.160 Another collection of short stories in Hindi. I have made it a point to read Hindi regularly and have started enjoying some of the contemporary writers in Hindi. I remember picking up this book by Sanjay Vyas from the New Delhi World Book…
Critical Robin Cook 2007 Pam Macmillan pp. 476 Another in the Laurie Montgomery- Jack Stapleton series, Critical is a medical fiction about the tie up of medicine with the corporate world. With a bit of personal twist, Jack has to undergo surgery himself in a hospital that has a recent history of dealing with a…
19 04 2019 Mittal, R. (2019, March-April). Pedagogic Concerns Centred on the ‘Happiness Curriculum’. The New Leam, 5(42): 15-17. The paper focuses on the debates around the introduction of Happiness Curriculum in schools. It begins with the argument that the curriculum focuses on “education in happiness” or teaching about happiness ignoring the broader idea of…
Khwab ke Gaon Mein (Hindi) Javed Akhtar, Arvind Mandloi 2017 Manjul pp. 84 I picked up this book in hope of reading some light poetry by Akhtar. Although classified as poetry, there are sections in this book that are more or less snippets of his thoughts. The introductiony m Mandloi is quite engaging but the…
Godplayer Robin Cook 1983 Pan Books pp. 293 This is one of the earlier writings by Cook. I am increasingly starting to wonder if I should have read his books in the order in which they have been written. His writing has changed substantially over a period of years, moving more towards literary pieces and…
The research design chapter often follows the review chapter. It generally focuses on the methodology that you have adopted for the study. There is no fixed pattern for this chapter. But it is important to keep in mind that research design is broader than the methodology you have adopted. Besides the tools used for data…
Theek Tumhare Pichhe (Hindi) Manav Kaul 2016 Hind Yugm pp. 192 This collection of short stories by Manav Kaul came as a surprise to me. Not a short stories fan, I picked it up with the clear thought that this will fill in the fifteen minutes of reading a day slot. Pleasantly surprised, I found…
Nano Robin Cook 2013 Pan Macmillan pp. 436 Another in a series of medical fiction by Robin Cook, Nano is a reminder to all readers about why Cook’s writing is so engaging. Despite the longish read, the book was quite engaging. It reminded me of why I had initially started reading his books. Besides being…
Bookless in Baghdad- And Other Writings about Reading Shashi Tharoor 2005 Penguin pp. 236 Bookless in Baghdad is a work of non fiction by Shashi Tharoor. This is the only writing by Tharoor that I have read so far and I picked it up for its interesting title more than anything else. I was unaware…
Aranghya & Jahar (Bandahar Series I) Vidhya Iyer 2019 pp. 147 Amazon Asia- Pacific The book is the first in a series as the title specifies. It falls in the fantasy fiction genre. The tale revolves around the kingdom of Bandahar. There are a lot of characters and as many places. The story line is…
