Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fiction, Authors, Indian writing in English, Indian authors, Book review, Indian Novel, Indian Writers, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, The River Has No Camera, Anjali Chandran on June 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If one went by the title or the packaging, one could have easily missed this book. If you took a little trouble and pulled it off the shelf and read the blurb, you may take a chance. That’s what I did. Anjali Chandran launched this book in 2001 and I dont remember reading about it, [...]
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Posted in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Highly recommended, tagged Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Books, Fiction, Authors, Indian writing in English, Indian authors, Book review, Indian Writers, Purple Hibiscus, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Anu Jayanth, The Finger Puppet on March 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Reading The Finger Puppet on the heels of Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was very reassuring - all is not lost with Indian writing. Which brings me to my pet peeve - that authentic and deserving writers rarely get nominated for those awards. Shashi Deshpande’s In the Country of Deceit was the Indian nominee for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize recently and Siddharth Shangvi’s book has also been nominated for [...]
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I read this book several years ago, but I can still vividly recall the plot and the characters. This is one of those books that haunt you. For a debut effort, ’Madras on Rainy Days’ is definitely a great piece of work. The feelings, the emotions, and the situations feel authentic and realistic. Samina Ali in one of her interviews candidly [...]
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I have had several mails on why I have stopped posting here. No particular reason, just that I wanted to find the right book to write about. So here goes, this is one my favourite writers of all time. The High Priestess of contemporary Indian Writing in English, Anita Nair is one of the greatest writers of our [...]
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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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Posted in Highly recommended, Short Stories, tagged Authors, Book Reviews, Books, Indian authors, Indian Writing, IndoAfrican Canadian writers, IndoAfrican writers, Short Stories on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am moving to another genre today – short stories. My biggest complaint about airports in this country is the lack of good book stores in any of them. More about that later. I was almost in panic, I had miscalculated the amount of reading material I had packed. I felt that since it was [...]
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A stunning book that I hesitated to buy because of all the hype around it. Pardon me, I am a little sceptical when there is a lot of buzz around new books. I regret having bought Red Carpet, Inheritance of Loss, House of Blue Mangoes, Babyji among others. S had picked up the book and convinced me [...]
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Posted in Highly recommended, tagged Abraham Eraly, Authors, Book review, Books, Fiction, Indian authors, Indian writing in English, Night of the Dark Trees, Syrian Christians on May 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
There are times when one finds gems hidden away without the fanfare of glitzy launches and high profile book readings (yawn). This book was one such, unsung, unheard with nary a ripple in the literary world. Even the cover is dark and moody and the back-of-the-book description does no justice to this superb novel. May [...]
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Ever since I read “The Kite Runner”, I was quite sure that I would definitely read Khaled Hosseini’s next book, whenever it came. I was a tad disappointed when I read the introduction at the back that said it deals with two women and their evolving relationship in the backdrop of the Afghan war. First of [...]
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