Book: It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote Author: Nikita Deshpande About the book: When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric taskmaster of a boss…
I have always been a fan of the British Royal family and especially Prince William and Kate. I have followed their wedding and subsequently the birth of the royal babies with avid interest. And when I came across this book ‘The Royal We’ which Amazon says is as bit as engrossing the story of Will…
Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh have been friends for over forty years, they are now in their eighties; and every evening, at the sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens and talk about the day and their life so far. This is Kushwant Singh’s last book…
I downloaded this book on my Kindle thinking I would read a few pages and give up because it seemed so chick-litesque and very ‘Pride and Prejudice’ but I was so wrong. I got so enchanted by this delightful story of five sisters named alphabetically that I finished it off in a couple of days. Moreover, it takes…
In the crowded space of Indian English writing, one approaches a book with a nondescript title and a publisher-pushed sleazy cover with trepidation. When the first scenes indicate it is set among India’s latte-drinking, mall-hunting GenY set, it take formidable courage to proceed. In the case of One Afternoon by Ms. Roma Bansal, while the aforementioned concerns…
A book by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay ‘Love was one thing, sin was another-and although it was difficult to tell love from sin, Trina had learnt to identify some of the signs’. “There was no one at the bus stop” talks about the life of Trina who is the protagonist of the book. The book is set…