PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The dazzling lights, the boisterous crowd, excited family and friends and all the shenanigans brighten up the atmosphere of yet another big fat Indian wedding that entwines two families together. As everyone, from both the families, leaves no stone unturned to make sure […]
The Final Year Project | Mehana Usha Rani | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Opening on the premises of an engineering college inaugural programme, “The Final Year Project” introduces the reader to a bunch of male friends who are in their final year and want to make the most of it. While making memories is on the […]
Reminiscence | Bani Marathe | Book Review
Plot: 3.5/5 Writing Style: 4/5 Characters: 3.5/5 Climax: 4/5 Entertainment Quotient: 4/5 In this debut collection of 23 odd poems, Bani Marathe speculates unpretentiously about love, life and existence in simple vernacular English. “Reminiscence” is a refreshing collection from a female perspective. It mentions about adoration through the eyes of a woman who has a […]
Madhusudhanan Nair Inde Mol | Veekshith KH | Book Review
Plot: 3.5/5 Writing Style: 3.5/5 Characters: 3.5/5 Climax: 3.5/5 Entertainment Quotient: 4/5 Debutant author Veekshith indiscriminately tugs at hearts with his pensive literary talents in this coming of age novel “Madhusudhanan Nair Inde Mol”. Centred around Madhusudhanan’s daughter who is on the threshold of adulthood after having completed her engineering degree finds herself locked up […]
A Life to Die For | Nilay Shah | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 From the author of Gujarati novel Asammat comes this complex and challenging self-translated English debut titled “A Life to Die For”. A timid and frightened sixteen-year-old girl is handed over to the police by a member of the Independent Kashwargh Force, Aryaman Zafar […]