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 : 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: 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”
Review: An Educated Women In Prostitution
An Educated Women In Prostitution The reason I must state this is that the outcome of the lack of restraint and caution seen in the lives of immoral women like ourselves has percolated into almost every layer of society. -Manada Devi There are a few books you read because of the hype, ‘An Educated WomenContinue reading “Review: An Educated Women In Prostitution”
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Mr And Mrs Pinto “The curtains had been drawn on the theatrical show of attachment that Mr and Mrs Pinto had put on for their audience.” This is a cute story of Sebastian Pinto who had fallen in love with a bubbly Jaya’s guffaw, proposed to her, got married and like most couples in theContinue reading “Review”
Medical Fiction Novels
Obsessed With Watching Medical Dramas? How About Reading These Ten Medical Novels??? Are you a House, MD fan? Have you watched all the series of Grey’s Anatomy? Planning to watch The Good Doctor american or korean? Is Scrubs your best sitcom? Or are you a Reader? If you are a reader and you are thrilledContinue reading “Medical Fiction Novels”
Indian female authors
Indian Female Authors “…a woman who writes has power. And a woman with power is feared.” Gloria AnzaldĂşa Sharing the most beautiful book collection I own and the most amazing author I’ve read thanks to #Bookstagram Many many thanks to all the bookstagramers who’ve recommended and spoken righteously about the books, Thank You all theContinue reading “Indian female authors”
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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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