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The initial impression of ‘Aftertaste’ – the title coupled with the cover seemed promising. But later, when I browsed through the synopsis, my entire conception of the title changed! And that is what piqued my curiosity even more.
History of this and history of that, from answers for ‘which?’ to answers for ‘what?’, everything about everything at home can indeed be found At Home.
The deadly romance, the forbidden love, the fights, sacrifices, just name it and you get it. What else does an avid reader wants?
The strongest of all feelings is "love". Can we really define it?
Love could be for the mother who gave us birth, the father who nourishes us, the friend who supports us, and the pet who is faithful to us or the mate we always wanted. It comes to our doorstep knocking every time.
Before starting this piece my mind was being constantly bombarded with a whole gamut of thoughts popping their heads out of here and there. That’s what happens when your mind is in proximity of a great author like Rushdie. Being a booklover myself, the very comparison of a book and its cinematic outcome seems futile to me.
Let me clarify right at the beginning: I am not a Chetan Bhagat fan. Therefore, my views might seem prejudiced. I have read just one book of his till date and have not really had the inclination to read any more. This article stems from quite a wonderful session I attended at the annual Times Literary Carnival in Mumbai last year entitled “All we want is Naukri and Chokri” and was in the form of an informal conversation between Barkha Dutt and Chetan Bhagat.
Indeed, few things were left unsaid. So this’s the way we met the lover-author to ask him ‘Kya Life Hogi Set?’ Let’s listen to the author of the bestsellers Few Things Left Unsaid & That’s the Way We Met
Think February, think romance and think young fiction…The Twilight Saga ! Actually, think a girls’ point of view and you would end up with two handsome men (or rather a vampire and a werewolf ) Once a rage, still a heart throb – Edward Cullen. A modern literary character has never been idolized so much in recent times (Except Harry Potter maybe, but even then, it’s just not the same). Pay no heed to the fact that he exists only on paper, or he is a vampire, or a blood sucker or has no soul (can’t blame Bella much, right?) I, for one, fell in love with him, so much that, every guy I met for a period of 2 months was subjected to a comparison with Edward (inside my mind of course). Sharing the spot in teen girls’ hearts – Jacob Black, a.k.a the “friend”! Portrayed as Bella’s rebound guy, Jake’s physical description does nothing to make hearts skip a beat. (The movie is a different issue!) But he is the best he-friend any girl would die to have. Think about it – the guy puts up with all of you and your nonsense, BUT, no romantic entanglements. You…
Umberto Eco’s is never an easy read. And his book, Foucault’s Pendulum is no exception to this. Dubbed as a ‘serious reader’s Dan Brown’ type, in this novel, Eco deals with the world of secret brethrens and lost mysteries with a sardonic simplicity. Almost like a short history of everything controversial, perhaps even untrue, mysticism and spiritual hullabaloos of the west and their very many cults!
Author: Vikram Seth Publisher: Penguin Year: 2000 ISBN: 978-0140285109 Rating: Read book reviews from other readers When I first met Vikram Seth and later heard him speak at the Hay Festival in Trivandrum two years ago, I knew I would appreciate his written word as much as I was enthralled by the spoken ones. Having randomly chosen to read his work, ‘An Equal Music’, from the rest of the more famous lot, I find myself not just appreciative, but moved beyond words at the sheer beauty of the finely crafted story of music, love and loss. Set mainly in London and Vienna, among the musical legacy of Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Haydn, ‘An Equal Music’ is essentially the story of a man and a woman in love. It goes a step further by also being the stories of musicians – in quartets and in solitude, in success and in disillusionment. Our man and woman are all of these- lost and found and lost again to their passionate loves and passion for music. In fact so finely balanced is Vikram Seth’s prose on the technicalities and moods of various musical genres and instruments that the entire book feels like a…