Musafir Dil Srinath Chaudhary 2020 Big Foot publication pp. 309 It took me a month to get back to books and a week to write the review. It is quite disconcerting ! There is more work than there is time to read and the first two months of 2020 have been very disappointing with reference…
The Lively Library and An Unlikely Romance Niranjan Navalgund 2016 Readomania pp. 96 The Lively Library… is a novella that uses animism to create a narrative of books coming to life. A young man inherits a library and sets it up despite his wishes to the contrary. He and other library members are unaware that…
The Diary of a Mathematician Kaushik Chug 2019 Amazon pp. 50 The debut work of Chug is a novella that presents the story of a gifted mathematician who is able to apply his genius to set chain reactions to modify social events. The story is nice and keeps you engaged. You want to know what…
Chaurassi (84) Satya Vyas 2018 Hind Yugm pp. 160 Chaurassi is a fictional story of Rishi and Manu (Manjeet). Set in Bokaro, the story details out the lives of the members of a middle class Sikh family. The romance that brews between the landlord’s daughter and the young man is sweet. The characters are not…
The Adivasi Will Not Dance Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar 2015 Speaking Tiger pp. 200 The Adivasi Will Not Dance is a collection of stories based in the tribal culture, primarily of Santhal tribe, in Jharkhand. The stories revolve around the lives of men and women belonging to the tribes of the region, their experiences and struggles,…
The Last Dance Anmol Arora 2019 Speaking Tiger pp. 320 The Last Dance is the debut novel by Anmol Arora. The narrative traces the life of a young Kurdish girl growing up in India. Having taken refuge in India at the peak of Turkey- Kurdistan conflict, the girl, struggles to find her identity in the…
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta Amish 2019 Wesltand pp. 374 The third in the series based on Ramayana, Amish’s Raavan, presents the narrative with primary focus on the life of Raavan. The making of the antagonist in what will be the war between Ram and Raavan has been highlighted through a series of circumstances in Raavan’s…
Feeling Blue! Saurabh Singh 2018 Blue Rose pp. 168 Saurabh Singh’s debut novel, Feeling Blue! is described on its cover page as a love journey. The story is a young adult love story of a young engineering graduate and his escapades with love. Filled with fun, heart break, career choices, and eventually settling down, the…
A Girl, A Stolen Camera and A Borrowed Bike: The Tale of a Journey Nikhil Singh Shaurya 2018 Notion Press pp. 78 The book is exactly what it is titled: tale of a journey, undertaken by a girl, who comes across a stolen camera and borrows a bike. The story had potential and would have…
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…
