Ever since I was a kid and I learned that there are different countries and different places on Earth, I wanted to visit them all. As a child, with no limits to my imagination, I would tell myself that someday I would see all of the world. As I grew up, I understood that reality was different. Trips to any place apart from the hometown […]
It had been a few months in the new city, but she wasn’t comfortable. It still felt new, it was still unfamiliar. Though she’d always craved for the independence staying away from home provided, she missed the warmth of her home. Staying away from home hadn’t been all the good things that she had thought it would be. She felt lost in the city for […]
Title: Pretty Vile Girl Genre: Fiction – Thriller Publisher: Bloomsbury Author: Rickie Khosla About the book: Jazmeen is Bollywood’s current favourite! She’s beautiful, talented and knows her way around. She is in a relationship with one of the most powerful politicians of the country. Apart from her work in movies, what makes Jazmeen famous are her candid interviews which make the whole nation wonder what she’s up […]
Title: Twenty Nine going on Thirty Genre: Fiction – Romance Publisher: Penguin Author: Andaleeb Wajid The book revolves around the lives of four women – Priya, Farida, Namrata and Mini. Each one of them is different but what binds them together is that they are going to turn thirty soon. Each one of them has their own set of problems to deal with. Priya is a […]
Title: The Inheritors Genre: Non-fiction Publisher: Penguin Author: Sonu Bhasin Blurb: Why did Harsh Mariwala leave his family business? What made the entire Dabur management to quit one day? How did Dhingra brothers turn a suffering business in to India’s second largest paints company? This is a fascinating behind the scenes look into what goes behind brands like Marico, Dabar, Keventers, Berger Paints, Select Group, Max Group […]
Title: Hell! No Saints in Paradise Genre: Fiction- Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Author: A. K. Asif Blurb : 2050, New York. In the aftermath of a gruelling spiritual cleansing quest, Ismael, A Pakistani-American student, enters into an alliance with otherworldly beings who send him on a perilous journey of self-discovery. A non-believer, Ismael must return to Pakistan, now in the grip of a brutal fundamentalist government, and gain the […]
Title: The Goat Thief Genre: Fiction-Short Stories Publisher: Juggernaut Author: Perumal Murugan Translator : N Kalyan Raman I’ve always loved short stories for the reason that they take you to a different world in a matter of few pages. They are the perfect on those days when you only have a few minutes to read. I’d heard of Perumal Murugan’s writing earlier but I had never read any […]
If there’s something that I look forward to after a long day is my reading time. I made a resolution at the beginning of this year that I’d read at least a few pages of a book everyday and I’ve managed to do – at least one page! Even when I was admitting in the hospital, one thing that was carried along was a book. […]
Title: Glitter and Gloss Genre: Romantic Comedy Publisher: Bloomsburry Authors: Vibha Batra Format : Paperback , Kindle version The plot: Misha is a twenty something independent girl who works as a make up artist in a MAC store. Like most twenty somethings she’s trying to figure out her life which is messed up mostly thanks to her self esteem issues. While on one of her […]
Title: TMS That’s my story Author: Vinay Mashalkar Publisher: Frog books Genre: Romance There is something about love stories that draws us to read it and “That’s my story” is the love story of Vikram, an IT guy who works in Bangalore. Vikram is happy on getting his first job though the remuneration isn’t much. Once he is done with the probation period, his life […]
