Name: The Immortals of Meluha Author: Amish Reading Time: 15-20 metro rides (not read in the metro) About the Book: The book is the 1st book of the Shiva Trilogy. That is exactly how it has been advertised. For some reason, I presumed it to be rooted in mythology, which it is at some level….
Name: S’s Secret Author: Shobhaa De Reading TIme: 3 metro rides About the Book: S’s Secret is about a young girl, Sandhya and her various relationships. She is fourteen years old. Her relationships with her parents, siblings and friends have been narrated in the book through her behaviour in different situations. The dominant concerns of…
Name: Deception PointAuthor: Dan BrownReading Time: 15 metro rides (most of it not read in the metro) About the Book: Deception Point is much like the Dan Brown I read (and wrote about). It’s technology based fiction, set in the United States, talks of national security issues. Somehow, reading two novels in the same genre…
Name: Digital FortressAuthor: Dan BrownReading Time: 10-12 metro rides About the Book: Digital Fortress is a science fiction, political drama. It repeatedly questions the world scenario of Big Brother watching and the uncalled for US domination. It raises ethical issues but does not talk about them explicitly. The ethics seem to get lost somwehere in…
Name: Main Nastik Kyon hun? (Hindi)Author: Bhagat SinghReading Time: 1 metro ride About the Book: Bhagat Singh gives his argument for being an atheist and traces his own journey from being a believer to a non believer. He also examines his own thoughts and traces his own intellectual journey. The writing is smooth, very moving…
Name: India AnalysedAuthor: Ramin Jahanbegloo and Sudhir KakarReading Time: 5-6 metro rides About the Book:India Analysed is more or less the transcript of the conversation between Kakar and Jahanbegloo mostly on Kakar’s other works and a bit about how they relate to his life and his adventures in training in psychoanalysis and its practice in…
Name: The Kept Woman and Other StoriesAuthor: Kamla DasReading Time: 3-4 metro rides About the Book:The book is a collection of short stories by Kamla Das. Some of the stories have been translated by the author herself, others by numerous others. The stories touch a variety of topics mostly revolving around women and the way…
Name: Ideal ChildAuthor: The MotherReading Time: 1 metro ride About the Book: The book spells out what an ideal child should be like. Ofcourse everyone is free to have their opinions but this seems to be a book more prescriptive than opinionated. For reasons I cannot even put my finger at, I do not like…
Name: Education for CharacterAuthor: VivekanandaReading Time: 1 metro ride About the Book:It is actually too small to be called a book. It is a collection of quotable quotes on different topics including education, religion, women and the like. It is a highly moralistic book inspiring people, particularly young men and women to live a virtuous…
Name: Home and the WorldAuthor: Rabindranath Tagore (translation by Nivedita Sen)Reading Time: 8-10 metro rides About the Book:Home and the World is a fascinatingly written book. The setting of the book is pre-independent India, when the Swadeshi movement was gathering momentum in Bengal. The book aptly describes the entoxicating radical Swadeshi movement. At the same…
