The AmericansChitra Viraraghavan2014Fourth Estate (Harper Collins)pp. 287 Viraraghavan writes about life in America. It is a story of people of all age groups, all social classes, different learning abilities, different professions. There is drama of every kind. Problems in relationships, parenting, finances, crime, morality, career, uncertainty. Everything is happening together. Much like it is in…
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)Kathy Lette2006Pocket Bookspp 326 How to Kill Your Husband is a witty tale of three friends in their forties and their (extra) marital escapades. If fiction is a representative of real life, it would seem that the whole world is having extra marital affairs. I give…
IncestMarquis de Sade2013 (1st edition 2003)(originally published in 1800 as Eugenie de Franval as part of The Crimes of Love)Bloomsburyp. 107 Available at: Incest (Alma Classics) At once outrageous and fascinating, sacrilegious and deeply religious, the story of the Franval family is marked by events and ideas that take courage to even imagine. As the name…
A Smidgen of Greed (Seven Sins to Mister Right #2)Sharath Komarraju2016Readifypp. n.a (kindle edition)Read in quick succession, and I am glad I did, the second book is the series is head and shoulders above the first. While maintaining the same simplicity as the first, there is a lot more to read in the second book….
In an earlier blog I have spoken about the relevance of research questions. The nature of research questions that you set up would determine whether your research demands a qualitative or a quantitative approach. In contemporary times, a mixed methods approach is frequently used that draws out the best out of qualitative and quantitative paradigms….
A Pinch of Lust (Seven Sins to Mister Right Book #1)Sharath Komarraju2016Readify pp. n.a. Kindle edition The first in a series of what I am presuming will be seven books, one each about various sins. The story revolves around the summer escapades of Sandhya who has recently turned eighteen and is exploring the world through…
My Name is RedOrhan Pamuk 1998(translated in English by Erdag M Goknar in 2001)Alfred A Knopf pp. 448 A Nobel prize winning novel, My Name is Red is set in Istanbul. A story of miniaturists in the sixteenth century, it is a tale of love, violence, art, religion and life. Hidden between the descriptions of complex…
Ranjan, A. 2011. On Terrorism: Illusion and Reality. Lucknow: Rahul Foundation. pp.35. ISBN: 978-81-906415-6-2.The essay elaborates on an understanding of terrorism with special focus on comparing it to people’s revolution. The emphasis is on tracing the history of people’s movements and comparing them to what are labelled as “terrorist movements”.It makes an important distinction in…
The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC.S. Lewis2010Harper Collinspp. 92The second book in the Narnia series, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a beautiful tale of four children who venture into the enchanting world of Narnia. The adventures that follow in meeting Aslan, defeating the evil witch, and becoming the Kingss and Queens…
Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildJ K Rowling2016Hachette/ Little Brownpp.330Rowling’s eighth in the Harry Potter series is a special rehearsal edition script for a stage play endeavour with John Tiffany and Jack Thorne. The play presents the life of Potter and his friends and family almost two decades after the last book concludes. Relationships continue…
