If you are reading this review. You must be one of the few who are still thinking if they should see RAMLEELA- poora naam GOLIYON KI RASSLEELA- RAMLEELA. Then this review is just for you. Why such a late review. As I am not Sanjay Leela bansali- I will give you a simple answer, It… Read More »
I don’t know how I pick the right book for the occasion. These cannot be coincidences but I will leave it at that. I ordered this at FLIPKART and it landed a day before I was to fly out to Vietnam for ADASIA 2013. It made a hell of humour laced reading and the impact… Read More »
JFK- always fascinated me. Lot of controversies- lot of conspiracy theories and few films on the subject was all that I had as the reference on the subject. It was early November when I ordered this from FLIPKART wanting to time it with 22 November – the day JFK was killed some 50 years back-… Read More »
IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR REPUTATION- DON’T BE CAUGHT READING THIS BOOK. The elementary guide to ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT (ORM) could have been another and more apt title for the book. It does laboriously makes a point that there is all things permanent in the cyber world- so you cannot CREATE but more MANAGE… Read More »
There sometime comes a book that takes you by storm and impresses a lot more than expected. JAYA by DEVDUTT PATTANAIK is one such book. It is one of the MOST RECOMMENDED books in my list. Attempting to retell MAHABHARAT (originally known as Jaya ) is never easy- but his ease of narration and not… Read More »
G Sampath- delivers what he promises. Checks on your feelings- emotions – argument and through the book- sometime- somewhere does offend you at some level. The Delhi based journalist and columnist leaves no bones while writing on a varied subject with direct-in directed references to people and subject that could only lead one way- making… Read More »
‘Ex’ by Novoneel Chakraborty was a surprise. It’s definitely a complex crooked twisted love story delivered in the forced First Person format that is a favorite with the authors and the readers. You definitely tend to more relate to them. What sells now days- Love- romance-sex and the thought of it. So the line at… Read More »
It’s an uneven road. It’s like travelling from Mumbai to Kolkata by road. The book is a journey of uneven pace- as if the author was not worried of the Reader expectation or experience. Its film and its Mumbai and its surrogate politics and mafia and the grass root foolish cadre that supports it. The… Read More »
TATA LOG – is a select set of Eight Modern Stories by HARISH BHAT from a timeless Institution- TATA. Harish Bhat is a batch mate from IIMA- the batch of ’87. I never had heard of his book. So picking this thick hardbound book at Airport had much to do about brotherhood then the interest… Read More »
Vikas Singh’s Debut novel- ‘THE BIX FIX’ dealing with the Cricket passion and fixing- is a far too simpler but a well paced novel. It draws on Pakistan Coach who dies and the matches that are supposed to be tainted to the film Star that owns the team in ICT- T20 carnival. As usual you… Read More »
