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…
Name: Ek Khali Jagah (Hindi)Author: Amrita PritamReading Time: 2 metro rides (not read in the metro) About the Book:The book is the story of a beautiful young girl who belongs to a lower middle class family and wishes to participate in a beauty contest. However, she is more or less compelled to get married to…
Name: Pinjar (Hindi)Author: Amrita PritamReading Time: 10 metro rides (only partly read in the metro) About the Book:The book is set around the time of the India-Pakistan partition and is about various issues. It talks of family rivalries, religion, relationships and family ties. The strongest issue discussed throughout the book is that of the role…
Name: The Crimson ThroneAuthor: Sudhir KakarReading Time: Forever.. About the Book:The book is set in the Moghul era and narrates the tale of two doctors/ medicinemen, who have come from the far west. The experiences of the two Europeans of their travels in India and how their lives and destinies meet take up a major…
Name: Ohh Yes I Am Single.. And So Is My GirlfriendAuthor: Durjoy Dutta and Neeti RustagiReading Time: 3-4 metro rides About the Book: The book is about the numerous love affairs that the male protagonist, named Durjoy, after the author, gets into and gets out of… and also how easily he gets in and out…
Name: IntimacyAuthor: Hanif KureishiReading Time: 10 metro rides (not read in the metro) About the Book: Intimacy is a very ‘intimate’ book. It borders on obscenity in its language at many places. Several times I got so disgusted that I wanted to put it down. But if you ever go past the dirty old man…
Name: InvasionAuthor: Robin CookReading Time: 10-15 metro rides About the Book: Invasion, like all robin cook books, is a medical fiction… this time medical fiction took an extra terrestial turn.. an alien life force, took the form of a virus and infected almost the whole of earth, taking it over to ensure a safe environment…
Name: Laakhi (Hindi)Author: Anotn Chekov (Name of translator: unknown)Reading Time: 1 metro ride About the Book:Laakhi is a Russian short story based on a pet dog’s perception of her life. Her getting lost in the hustle bustle of the city, finding a new owner, getting trained for a circus and finding her old master back….
