Posted in Best sellers, Highly recommended, Rohinton Mistry, tagged Author, Book review, Indian Author, Indian Novel, Indian writing in English, Novel, Rohinton Mistry on June 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
‘Family Matters’ was my first taste of Rohinton Mistry and I have been hooked since. A master story teller, he grips the reader with easy paced narrative, one rarely feels tedium. There is always a shadow of gloom in his books, and that is what gives it the sense of realism and the need for [...]
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Posted in Highly recommended, Rohinton Mistry, tagged A Fine Balance, Authors, Book review, Books, Indian authors, Indian writing in English, literature, Parsi, Rohinton Mistry on May 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Like my clan, the Syrian Christians, the Parsis are an interesting community. In the south, we are not as exposed to other communities like people in Mumbai or Delhi. Prior to Rohinton Mistry’s ‘Family Matters’ my understanding of Parsis was limited to knowing that one of my colleagues in Mumbai was one and looking at [...]
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