Alipura Usually, in small places like Alipura, the pace of life tends to be sluggish, and even when you meet people after years, you’d notice little changes in them…Now, that’s what didn’t happen to the family this year. -Gyan Chaturvedi ‘Alipura‘ is the story of a small Indian village in the state of Uttar PradeshContinue reading “Review: Alipura”
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Review: 1984
1984 “The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak.” “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” SpoilerAlertContinue reading “Review: 1984”
Review: Colours Of Red
Colours Of Red The clock stops when you are in Bastar. But the clock has never started ticking for the hundreds of thousands of people who are Bastaria. In this age of terabytes, life moves here with the speed of kilobytes. You are amazed at many things here, but the most amazing is the BohemianContinue reading “Review: Colours Of Red”
Review: Lights! Wedding! Ludhiana!
Lights! Wedding! Ludhiana! People from Ludhiana will be amongst the first to hold marriage ceremonies on the Moon and Mars once human colonies are set up there and commercial space flights become available. However, there could be many complications arising from this development. Ludhiavanis would insist that scotch whisky be served during the space flightContinue reading “Review: Lights! Wedding! Ludhiana!”
Review : Vultures Of Paradise
Vultures Of Paradise Our ignorance has converted us into waste-producing machines. We are robots fuelled by avarice and indifference, who only want to possess more…and more…and more…And at what cost And why? -Atulya Misra ‘Vultures Of Paradise‘ is the story of a young well heeled Indian origin girl who overnight becomes the richest woman inContinue reading “Review : Vultures Of Paradise”
Review: Whispering Bricks
Whispering Bricks He was called the ‘The Brick Whisperer’. And the walls that he created have been witness to countless stories and innumerable whispers. -Siddhartha Bhasker ‘Whispering Bricks’ is a wonderful book to be read over a cup of coffee or on a lazy journey. Each chapter fills you with nostalgia of the good oldContinue reading “Review: Whispering Bricks”
Review: The Bookshop
The Bookshop Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. -Penelope Fitzgerald ‘The Bookshop’ is a story of a middle-aged warm-hearted widow Mrs Florence Green living in a quaint seaside town of Hardborough in the 1950. After living a lonely life for too long and having seen a weird dream multiple times Florence decidesContinue reading “Review: The Bookshop”
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Zoravar Zoravar remembered distantly the cold winter night on which he had gone to watch ‘Phool’ by the same director. It was the lost movie he had watched before fate had twisted him in ways from which he would never recover. -Maharsh Shah, ‘Zoravar’. Entertaining and engaging read for the old Bollywood cinephiles. This isContinue reading “Review”
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