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Review: The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous by Khushwant Singh with Humra Quraishi

Review / December 11, 2013

Author: Khushwant Singh and Humra Quraishi
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129124432
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In this book, Khushwant Singh compiles the profiles of 35 famous (or in some case, infamous) Indians as he knows them, based on his relations, exchanges and interactions with them.

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Review : Ajaya, Epic of the Kaurava Clan by Anand Neelakantan

Review / December 10, 2013

Author: Anand Neelakantan
Publisher: Leadstart Publications
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789381576038
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Roll of the Dice, Book 1 of Ajaya: Epic of the Kaurava Clan is the Mahabharata retold from the Kaurava perspective. The agenda is simple; here the Pandavas are villains and the Kauravas are heroes. One wishes it had been more nuanced than that.

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Review: Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk

Review / December 9, 2013

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780224091183
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Doomed, Chuck Palahniuk’s much-anticipated sequel to Damned, continues the infernal adventures of Madison Spencer, “the liveliest and snarkiest dead girl in the universe.” While the first instalment of the trilogy presented the reader with Hell: the Palahniuk edition, Doomed is a dark, provocative, very irreverent apocalyptic vision.

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Review: Manuscript Found In Accra by Paulo Coelho

Review / December 7, 2013

Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780007520503
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Written by Paulo Coelho, the book Manuscript Found in Accra is an immaculate cocktail of Fiction and Philosophy without any mundane reiterations. It touches upon various circles of life and greatly influences the thinking of a common man.

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Review: Rearview: My Roadies Journey by Raghu Ram

Review / December 7, 2013

Author: Raghu Ram
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129129116
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Rearview is a look at the life of MTV’s Executive Director Raghu Ram, of Roadies fame. It delves into the good, the bad and the ugly- in brutally honest Raghu style!

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Review: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Review / December 6, 2013

Author: Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9788184774009
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The sequel to the hugely popular The Hunger Games, Catching Fire is another gripping young adult novel from Suzanne Collins. Before you catch the movie, take a look at what the book is all about!

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Review: The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth

Review / December 5, 2013

Author: Frederick Forsyth
Publisher: Putnam
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9780399165276
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The Kill List is another thriller from the now famous author, Frederick Forsyth. It goes the route of a typical Forsyth plot, with some aberrations.

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Review: The One You Cannot Have by Preeti Shenoy

Review / December 4, 2013

Author: Preeti Shenoy
Publisher: Westland Publications
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789383260683
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Preeti Shenoy is a prolific author. Her books, ‘Life Is What You Make It’ and the ‘The Secret Wish List’ are best-sellers. In this new endeavour, ‘The One You Cannot Have’ she talks about love in the 21st century. You can’t fight heaven and earth to be with your beloved any more; in this fast-paced world, where emotions are being swapped for emoticons, disregarding others’ feelings comes easily to us. Preeti Shenoy talks about true love in such times.

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Review: Hitched by Nandini Krishnan

Review / December 3, 2013

Author: Nandini Krishnan
Publisher: Vintage Books
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184003734
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The insecurities of people regarding spending their life with complete strangers to happy moments, from the horror stories to the wedding preparations; the author has captured them all in Hitched.

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Review: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

Review / December 2, 2013

Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 1993
ISBN: 978014023038
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A magnanimous poetic saga of four families, A Suitable Boy is a lovable in-depth read, where the reader not only spends his minutes, hours and days with the numerous characters, but lives inside their minds too.A Suitable Boy is essentially about Lata and her mother’s quest to find a befitting boy for Lata to marry.