Review: Sorry Dad I ain’t scoring the goal by Ankit Rathi
Review / July 28, 2013

Author: Ankit Rathi Publisher: Frog Books Year: 2013 ISBN: 9789382473046 Rating: Read book reviews from other readers   “What does your passion mean to you? What if your passion crosses the path of your success? What if the whole world, even your own mother do not support you? What will you do then? Will you still strive to achieve it or will you accept defeat? Again, What does your passion mean to you?” Ankit Rathi is a graduate from ISM, Dhanbad. In his debut novel, ‘Sorry Dad, I ain’t scoring the goal’, he takes us along on young Shaurya’s journey into maturity and growing up. The story begins when Shaurya is in Class 7. Despite his love for Cricket, one day, he is bulldozed into watching a football game thanks to the two football fanatics in his family; his father and brother. This is the turning point in his life. He is instantly captivated by the aura of the game and hooked by the intensity the players show. And he decides to be the best footballer in the country. He also wants to help make his father’s football club, Vixens, the best in the league.  What follows next is the…

Interview with Shobhan Bantwal
Authors Exclusive / July 26, 2013

Born and raised in a conservative Hindu family in India, Shobhan Bantwal’s arranged marriage took her to the US. Directing and acting in a play in Chicago made her realize her calling towards writing. She has since then given us various books like The Dowry Bride, The Sari Shop Window and The Reluctant Matchmaker. Describing her writing as “Bollywood in a book”, her books are replete with observations and anecdotes about the Indian life in the US. IndiaBookStore in an exclusive chat with her:

Review : Happy Birthday by Meghna Pant
Review / July 24, 2013

Author: Meghna Pant
Publisher: Random house India
Year: 2013
ISBN:978-8184004038
Rating: 4.5/5
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‘Happy Birthday’ Is a collection of short stories by the author – Meghna Pant. It is her second book after multiple award winning ‘One and a half wives’. So this book was also expected to be exceptional and the author will not disappoint you.

Review: The Catcher in the Rye
Review / July 22, 2013

Author: J. D. Salinger
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 1951
ISBN: 9780316769488
Rating: ★★★★☆
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 I picked up a copy of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, not because it had sold over 65 million copies, nor because it was always prominently listed in the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century.

Review: The Great Gatsby
Review / July 20, 2013

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Year: 1925
ISBN: 9780743273565
Rating: ★★★★☆
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In 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald desired to write something new, or in his own words, “something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned”, nobody guessed it would turn out to be one of his finest works. Inspired by the parties Fitzgerald attended, The Great Gatsby is one of the most celebrated literary works of American Literature. 

Review: Because Shit Happened by Harsh Snehanshu
Review / July 18, 2013

Author: Harsh Snehanshu
Publisher: Random House India 
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184003482
Rating: ★★½☆☆
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Because Shit Happened is the author, Harsh Snehanshu’s fourth book. Having carved a niche for himself, the fourth book was very much awaited and received amidst a lot of appreciation. The book is about what NOT to do in a start-up.  The author has been a founder of his own start-up and the book is a real-life story of the venture that author co-founded in 2010. 

Review : The Reluctant Matchmaker by Shobhan Bantwal
Review / July 16, 2013

Author: Shobhan Bantwal
Publisher: Fingerprint!Publishing
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788172344535
Rating: ★★★☆☆
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After keeping her head straight and not falling in the traps of love, Meena finds herself a victim of love-at-first-sight. Top that with some family drama contributed by a brother’s matrimonial choice, and an unexpected date that turns into something ‘more’, Meena’s life suddenly gets roller coaster-like!

An Interview with Sampurna Chattarji
Authors Exclusive / July 14, 2013

1. "Dirty Love" has been described as a book of short stories based on Mumbai and we came to know that your next is already in the pipeline, again a short story collection about the City of Joy: Kolkata. What’s about these cities that you want to tell the world in a different way? When I write, I’m not wondering what I’m going to “tell the world”! I’m trying to unravel something for myself. In the case of Dirty Love, that ‘something’ was the city of Mumbai. Unlike all the other places in my life where I found myself by chance and circumstances (Ethiopia, Darjeeling, Kanpur, Delhi, Calcutta) Bombay was the only place I chose to be in (I moved here from Kolkata in 1995). It was love at first sight, and Dirty Love is about my love for the city but, as the review in Biblio put it, “this love is dirty—just like the city it represents. It leaves it stench on you. It marks you; you belong to it. You reek of it from afar, and it will never leave you, never desert you.” I was interested in communicating the city’s claustrophobia and its expansiveness, its safety (as a…