STORIES: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 For me, this past one month has been about reading a lot of short stories but no matter how many short stories you read, you… [Continue Reading]
The Line Reader | Agni Tripathi | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Short stories can be a very tricky form of telling tales. There is no scope for elaborate back stories or time to build… [Continue Reading]
Angaaray | Snehal Shingavi | Book Review
STORY: 3/5 THEME: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 HISTORICAL RELEVANCE: 4/5 Originally written in the Urdu language, and first published in 1932, this collection of short stories was immediately banned when it created… [Continue Reading]
Palette of Love | Ashok Kallarakkal | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Before I start this review I would happily like to state that Palette of Love has been my best short story book so far in… [Continue Reading]
Metro Diaries | Namrata | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 In the words of the famous English singer and songwriter John Lennon “Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it… [Continue Reading]
Khushwant Singh On Love And Sex | Khushwant Singh | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CANDIDNESS: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 When you think about Khushwant Singh and about his writings, what is the first word which comes to your mind? Sex, for he is a… [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]
Stories of Hope | Kirthi Jayakumar | Book Review
STORIES: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 There are both pluses and minuses with short stories. They lack the depth and detail of a full-length novel, but are short and undemanding; you… [Continue Reading]
The Disappearance of Tejas Sharma | Manish Mahajan | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Beyond the realms of men, there is a world; a world where the unknown and the unexplained resides, a world which information and education can’t… [Continue Reading]
Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | Book Review
PLOTS: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Hailed as one of the best known authors of today, she is a celebrated recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in the… [Continue Reading]
The King’s Harvest | Chetan Raj Shrestha | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3 /5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I remember it was the summer of 1996; my aunt was newly married and still living with us when her tall, dark,… [Continue Reading]
Saleem on Earth and Other Stories | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Reading short stories is definitely not the same as reading a full-fledged novel. In a novel, the author has the time to build… [Continue Reading]
