My Husband and Other Animals Janaki Lenin 2012 Westland pp. 282 The book is a collection of anecdotes based on her life experiences with, well, her husband and other animals. I had never imagined living in harmony with nature would be like this. And although it sounds charming, I don’t think I have the courage…
Coma Robin Cook 1977 Little Brown pp. 306 Coma is a medical thriller about a series of patients going mysteriously into coma. It is one of Cook’s earlier books and his passion for pursuing socially relevant issues in the practice of medicine is clear in the book. When otherwise perfectly healthy people, admitted for routine…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott 1884 Seeley & Co. The novella is written from the perspective of a fictional character, a Square, living in a Flatland a land of only two dimensions. The story is a satire on the Victorian culture and the social structure therein. However, it is also a…
All That Could Have Been (Humari Adhuri Kahaani) Mahesh Bhatt with Suhrita Sengupta 2015 Speaking Tiger pp. 142 I picked up this book looking at Mahesh Bhatt’s name and for all the months that I have had it, I was quite sure it was his biography. It was ten pages into the book that I…
Marker Robin Cook 2005 Pan Macmillan pp. 592 After a long time, I have really enjoyed reading one of Cook’s work. Reading Marker reminded me of why I had started reading Robin Cook in the first place. It has mystery, it has medicine, it has all the makes of a good thriller. It is always…
30 09 2018 Gulati, N. (2018). Aankhein Munde Kabutar: Yaunikta ki Abhivyati. Paathshala- Bheetar aur Baahar, 1 (1): 43-55. The paper begins with a discussion on a July 2017 incident of a young boy being restricted from sitting in class XII boards post his hugging a peer in the school. The ensuing discussion in the…
Cracking the Code- My Journey in Bollywood Ayushmann Khurana & Tahira Kashyap 2015 Rupa pp. 158 I am not a movie buff and I am not an aspiring actor. I do not get inspired to read biographies of famous people. Yet, I picked up Khurana’s (& Tahira’s) book. This should be an indication that I…
Abduction Robin Cook 2000 PanMacmillan pp. 400 Abduction is a fictional account of the abduction of five undersea explorers into an alternate world that exists inside earth. The interterrains, as they call themselves, are far more ancient and simultaneously far more advanced that the humans inhabiting surface earth. In terms of the narrative, the first…
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 Atria Books pp 388 Reid writes the story of a Hollywood star of the yesteryears, telling her biography to be released post her death. The plot starts by the star handpicking a not so famous journalist for writing a piece on her. The mystery starts…
Sharma, G. (2018). Reversal of Children’s Right to No Detention. The New Leam. Retrieved: http://thenewleam.com/2018/08/reversal-of-childrens-right-to-no-detention/ The article presents the author’s views on the reversal of section 16 of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 after the report of the CABE in 2014 recommended reintroduction of detention beyond primary classes. The modification introduced…
