Rummaging through their dead parents’ letters, Manjula, a second-generation Indian-American, and her sister Nilima make a startling discovery—their mother, an immigrant scientist from India to America in the 1940s, had had a twin sister with whom she had been estranged…
Book Name: Please Let Me Go Authors: Please Let Me Go by Caitlin Spencer with Linda Watson-Brown Publisher: Amaryllis Rating: 3.5/5 Book Blurb: From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on…
Book Name: Biswin Sadi Memoirs Author: Jamil Urfi Publisher: Cinnamon Teal Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: In this memoir, the author recounts his experiences of growing up in Delhi during a period of ‘Biswin Sadi’– the 20th century, when it felt like…
Book Name: When I Hit You Author: Meena Kandasamy Publisher: Juggernaut Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him…
Book Name: A Girl Like That Author: Tanaz Bhathena Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4.5/5 Book Burb: Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their…
Book Title: Mr. Iyer Goes to War Author: Ryan Lobo Pages: 215 Publisher: Bloomsbury Rating: 3.5/5 Story in a nutshell: Beginning in an old age home located near River Ganges in the city of Varanasi, the novel follows the adventures…
Book Review: Dark Diamond by Shazia Omar Book Name: Dark Diamond Author: Shazia Omar Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9385936468 Number of Pages: 229 Rating: 3.8/5 Story in a nutshell: ‘All that they cherish shall perish’. Kalinoor, the dark variant of the…
Book Review- A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov Book Name: A Country Doctor’s Notebook Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Number of pages: 23 Rating: 4/5 Story in a nutshell: The story begins with Dr. Bomgard who is the narrator in a…
Book Review: Mornings After by Tharun James Jimani Book Name: Mornings After Author: Tharun James Jimani Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9789385436468 Number of Pages: 266 Overall Rating: 4/5 Reviewed by: Sai Prasanna P. Story in a nutshell: Sonya works in the…
Book Name: Inflection Authors: Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.2/5 Book Blurb: Real careers are not perfect. Professional success is not absolute. People shape careers and then over time, careers shape people. Feb 1999. The batch of…
If you find a girl, don’t make her yours— she won’t get your obscure literary allusions, so why not give up on poets who cut lines in search of heads, top quite gone? You can turn any word into…
1 I saw the reflection of you in my morning cup looking like me. Oh Narcissus, our love of peering at ourselves is only an illusion. Do not be afraid of the edges nor the ripples in the water, it…