Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Escape, Fiction, Indian Fiction, Indian Novel, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Manjula Padmanabhan, Novels on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two budding flowers and few drops of blood, the cover says it all. It took me a while to make the connection. Deep, I must add.
Actually the only new IWE book the Bangalore Airport had was this one. Only later did I hear that most critics had trashed this one and not without some reason.
Escape is [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anita Nair, Indian authors, Indian Fiction, Indian Novel, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Jaishree Misra, Kerala, Malayalis, Rohinton Mistry, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai on April 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Disappointing, was my thought as I turned the last page. Another Indian author that I had not tried for a long time despite several people urging me. The fact that she is related to Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai as stated by Wikipedia was certainly one reason to try this one out. May be this is not [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book review, Books, Indian authors, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Review, Siddharth Dhanvanth Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the ’Last Song of Dusk’ was bizarre, this one is bizarre too; less but bizarre all the same. Siddarth hid behind the facade of magic realism in his last book, this one however exposes him. ‘The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay’ is disappointing and does not stand up to all the hype created by the spin doctors. Even the [...]
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Posted in Recommended, tagged Chennai, Indian authors, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, No Onions Nor Garlic, Srividya Natarajan, Tambrahms on February 16, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I attempted this one more out of compulsion, so that P did not crib about her failed attempts to make me read Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly. By the fourth page even the mallu on the PA system saying, “Ladies and gendlemen, flight number won, seero, seero….. from Chennai to Baaingaluur”….. could not distract me. I have not giggled as much [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book review, Books, Fiction, Indian authors, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Novels, Timeri N Murari on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Timeri N Murari is a name that you will see tucked away among the likes of Rohinton Mistry, Anita Desai, Anita Nair, etc in the Indian Fiction section of libraries and book shops. I had never tried reading Murari before and if this book is any reflection of his skill I won’t be reading anymore.
The novel is based on the [...]
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Posted in Recommended, tagged Book review, Books, Indian authors, Indian Novel, Indian Writing, Kerala, Madhavan Kutty, Malayali Writers, Nairs on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I do regret missing out on the works of Thakazhi, O V Vijayan, M Mukundan, M T Vasudevan Nair and Vaikom Basheer in their original forms. I believe that at times the texture is lost in translations. However, Gita Krishnankutty who translated this book by Madhavan Kutty has done an excellent job. People who can understand Malayalam can comprehend the [...]
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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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