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Author: Ravi Subramanian
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9788129120489
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An IIM alumni, Ravi Subramanian is back with his yet another best selling banking chroincle “The Bankster”. In this thriller, Ravi used his customary approach of seemingly unrelated multiple threads of contexts converging into a single climax. This initially makes his followers feel a bit bored.

Author: Janice Pariat
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9788184000740
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I have always been fascinated by the cultural intricacies and varieties of our country. From the North to the South, from the East to the West, we are a land of diversity.

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978055216023
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Danielle Steel is on a roll. When I see a Steel novel, I simply cannot resist picking it up and immediately get started on it, mainly for the warmth that it envelops us in. And the variety that Steel offers in her recent novels is incredible. “Betrayal” one of her recent works was a thriller, whereas, “Promise”,

Season’s greetings to all the readers! It’s almost Christmas and the holiday cheer is pervading one and all. Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Christ which serves as a reminder of everything good and all things giving.

  Ever felt this craving to possess a book? Ever gone hunting for it all over the city? And ever been disappointed at not finding it? Well… here’s a simpler alternative, that won’t take you much time and will also get you what you want as well… ONLINE SHOPPING!

Author: Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
Publisher: Randomhouse Publications
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9781847940889
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We cannot predict the future. But we can create it.

Think back to 15 years ago, and consider what's happened since, the destabilizing events — in the world, in your country, in the markets, in your work, in your life — that defied all expectations. We can be astonished, confounded, shocked, stunned, delighted, or terrified, but rarely prescient.

My association with the book fair goes back to the days when I have just started bearing the idea of what books were. I was born in a typical Kolkata family where books are valued and archived.

Author: Basharat Peer
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9788184000344
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Kashmir eludes all. It does not lie in the old movies. It does not reside in declarations of Mughal emperors. It escapes the imagination that tries to pin it down as a burning wound of terror on the nation’s visage. If it’s essence to be captured, only a son of the Kashmiri soil can do it.

It’s found that whenever one attempts to travel through the realms of English literature, they often and inevitably get to face the mighty mountains of English history which are not so mountable.

Comparison is futile. Comparison is, however, inevitable.

‘Life of Pi’ is originally a novel written by the Spanish author, Yann Martel. It is almost a fable having an Indian boy at its helm. His family decides to relocate to Canada for a better future for them when emergency is imposed in India but unfortunately their ship wrecks during the voyage. His father owned a zoo in Pondicherry and expected a better market in America for his animals and so, were travelling in a cargo ship along with the animals.