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…
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 1999 steps out from one of India’s leading business schools—Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata—into the…
Book Name: Tropical Detective: A Hari Majestic Mystery Author: Zac O’Yeah Genre: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: Part of the Hari Majestic series, in Tropical Detective Hari grows up, gets serious and travels to Sweden in his first ever…
Do We Not Bleed (Book Review) by Mehr Tarar Book Name: Do We Not Bleed Author: Mehr Tarar Publisher: Aleph Rating: 3.7/5 Blurb: Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistani is a passionate, illuminating book about contemporary Pakistan. Comprising…
You strung them up together, A constellation of sin, Black suns, primitive blurs, counterparts to our purity, As if humanity turns inside Out by a type of love you won’t accept. You can’t Repress this urge for beauty killed. It’s…
Book Name: Why I Killed the Mahatma Author: Koenraad Elst Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: It is common knowledge that Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead in 1948 by a Hindu militant, shortly after India had both gained her independence and lost…