The Shadow LinesAmitav Ghosh1988Penguin Indiapp. 288The Shadow Lines is one of the earlier works of Ghosh. I picked it up as part of a reading challenge. The temptation was to read one of his books since I haven’t read any of Ghosh’s works earlier. I was a bit disappointed, and I believe his other books…
Musafir Cafe Divya Prakash Dubey2016Westlandpp. 144Musafir Cafe by Dubey is the story of everyone who is in their late twenties and early thirties, or maybe even older. It is the story of everyone who has found a stable career but is in search of peace and meaning. Of everyone who is looking not for romantic love…
The Legend of Lakshmi PrasadTwinkle Khanna2016Juggernautpp. 233The book is a collection of four stories, each one completely different from the other. The first and the last focus on social issues and talk about the struggles of people who choose to tread the difficult path of starting a revolution. The last one, The Sanitary Man from…
Adopted Miracles: The Story of Our Family Anamika Mukherjee 2014 pp. 200 Harper Collins Adopted Miracles is a first person account of a young woman who discovers that she cannot have children by natural childbirth. The ordeal of tests, and of the umpteen people asking for “good news” is described in a straight forward…
Autobiography of an Autism EntrepreneurMythili Chari2017 Amarabharathi pp. 175 As the title suggests, the autobiographical writing by Chari details out her experiences in the field of educating children with autism, and her initiative of setting up her own institute. The anecdotal account begins with her childhood experiences and reminisces about what she considers are significant…
Five Days: An Adventure Krishna Pareek Kindle edition 2017 The book is a fantasy novel describing what the protagonist begins to live as the last five days of his life. The events that unfold, part real, part fiction take him, and the reader, to a world where everything is unreal. At several points in…
The Queens of Hastinapur Sharath Komarraju 2017 pp. 350 (read kindle edition) Harper Collins (Available on Amazon for preorder) The book is the third in a series of book that Komarraju is writing, presenting the story of Mahabharata from the perspectives of women in the epic. It is quite incredible that Sharath has picked up…
Sita: Book 2 of the Ram Chandra Series Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana Amish Devdutt Pattanaik 2017 2013 pp. 361 pp. 316 Westland Penguin Reading two different versions of Sita’s story in quick succession was a deliberate attempt. We have heard and read Ramayana from a male perspective often. I have read…
Why Should I Love You…?Kamal Paneru2017pp. 150 Half Baked BeansThe debutant work by Paneru is in the young adult romance genre oft explored by contemporary Indian writers. The setting is an engineering college, and themes of romance, studies, the futility of studies, placements and life in the semi metropoliton cities have been well explored. All…
Mumma ki DiaryAnu Singh Choudhary2015Hindyugmpp. 159Mumma ki Diary is exactly what it claims to be. A non-fictional account of the life experiences of a young mother. Written in everyday Hindi, the book presents an episodic account of a young journalist, the author, from the time of her decision to have a child to her present…
