SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The world is never short of alternate sciences or theories or remedies or any other thing. If there is a correct way to do a… [Continue Reading]
The Winds of Hastinapur | Sharath Komarraju | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 With more than 74,000 verses and about 1.8 million words, Mahabharata is the longest epic in the world. It has been widely translated,… [Continue Reading]
Who Wrote the Bhagavadgita – A Secular Enquiry Into a Sacred Text | Meghnad Desai | Book Review
SUBJECT: 5/5 RELEVANCE: 5/5 RESEARCH: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 The Bhagavad-Gita, along with the Vedas and the Upanishads, constitutes a basic triad (prasthanatrayi) of the Hindu religion. It is by far one… [Continue Reading]
Losing My Religion | Vishwas Mudagal | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Entrepreneurship is the “in” thing now; it is the buzz word. Everybody wants to be their own boss; they want to revolutionize the… [Continue Reading]
Boats on Land – A Collection of Short Stories | Janice Pariat | Book Review
STORIES: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 The beauty of the north-east lies in its culture, its people and its landscapes. The seven sisters, as these seven states are called, have their… [Continue Reading]
Private India | Ashwin Sanghi & James Patterson | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 It is a dream collaboration – James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi. One is a master of crime writing, and the other is a… [Continue Reading]
Servants of the Goddess: The Modern-day Devadasis | Catherine Rubin Kermorgant | Book Review
SUBJECT: 5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Wendy Doniger’s book ‘The Hindus: An Alternative History’ was recently recalled and pulped by Penguin India because it “hurt the feelings of the Hindus.” More… [Continue Reading]
Newton’s Law Reversed | Howard Roark | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The basic premise of most love stories, either it is a tragedy or a happy one, is the same. There are certain indispensable… [Continue Reading]
Lajja: Shame | Taslima Nasrin | Book Review
PLOT: 5/5 RESEARCH: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 History teaches us that religion has been one of the most compelling reasons behind many of the great wars, and a consequence of most… [Continue Reading]
Just Kidding… Yours, Destiny | Anirban Das | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 The greatest prankster in the world is destiny or fate or karma. It always teases us, and never lets anything go according to… [Continue Reading]
Cell | Robin Cook | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Mobile phones have penetrated deeply into our daily lives; they have become indispensable. They started as a communication device, and slowly outgrew themselves;… [Continue Reading]
Combat of Shadows | Manohar Malgonkar | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Racial discrimination was one of the major reasons behind the Indian independence struggle. Brown people were treated like dogs; sometimes even worse. Though… [Continue Reading]
