My Gita2015Devdutt PattanaikNew DelhiRupapp. 256Pattanaik’s ‘My Gita’ describes the lessons provided in the dialogue between Krishna and Arjun on the battlefield between Pandavas and Kauravas. The sermon is widely known to present important lessons of life and serves as the prelude to Arjuna’s darshan of Krishna as God. Despite its popularity and my keen interest on…
A Day Just for Me Kavya Sahni 2016 Notion Press pp. 126 Written by fifteen year old, Kavya Sahni, A Day Just for Me is the story of a young girl and her relationship with her Aunt. The story revolves around personal and relationship issues of Elizabeth Grayson, who struggles with the loss of her…
The AmericansChitra Viraraghavan2014Fourth Estate (Harper Collins)pp. 287 Viraraghavan writes about life in America. It is a story of people of all age groups, all social classes, different learning abilities, different professions. There is drama of every kind. Problems in relationships, parenting, finances, crime, morality, career, uncertainty. Everything is happening together. Much like it is in…
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)Kathy Lette2006Pocket Bookspp 326 How to Kill Your Husband is a witty tale of three friends in their forties and their (extra) marital escapades. If fiction is a representative of real life, it would seem that the whole world is having extra marital affairs. I give…
IncestMarquis de Sade2013 (1st edition 2003)(originally published in 1800 as Eugenie de Franval as part of The Crimes of Love)Bloomsburyp. 107 Available at: Incest (Alma Classics) At once outrageous and fascinating, sacrilegious and deeply religious, the story of the Franval family is marked by events and ideas that take courage to even imagine. As the name…
A Smidgen of Greed (Seven Sins to Mister Right #2)Sharath Komarraju2016Readifypp. n.a (kindle edition)Read in quick succession, and I am glad I did, the second book is the series is head and shoulders above the first. While maintaining the same simplicity as the first, there is a lot more to read in the second book….
In an earlier blog I have spoken about the relevance of research questions. The nature of research questions that you set up would determine whether your research demands a qualitative or a quantitative approach. In contemporary times, a mixed methods approach is frequently used that draws out the best out of qualitative and quantitative paradigms….
A Pinch of Lust (Seven Sins to Mister Right Book #1)Sharath Komarraju2016Readify pp. n.a. Kindle edition The first in a series of what I am presuming will be seven books, one each about various sins. The story revolves around the summer escapades of Sandhya who has recently turned eighteen and is exploring the world through…
My Name is RedOrhan Pamuk 1998(translated in English by Erdag M Goknar in 2001)Alfred A Knopf pp. 448 A Nobel prize winning novel, My Name is Red is set in Istanbul. A story of miniaturists in the sixteenth century, it is a tale of love, violence, art, religion and life. Hidden between the descriptions of complex…
The Magician’s NephewC S Lewis1955 (This edition 2010)Harper Collinspp. 107Book one of the Chronicles of Narnia’s series, the Magician’s Nephew describes the beginning of Narnia. I was surprised to know that this wasn’t the first book of the series written be Lewis. If I were reading in the chronological order in which they were written,…
