Review: The Immigrant by Manju Kapur
Review / February 28, 2014

Author: Manju Kapur
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9788184000610
Rating: ★★★☆☆
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Canada, the Great White North, is the home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many of whom are Indian. This influx started with the movement of East Indian and Sikh troops along with the British regiments to claim and settle in North America. Today, more than 5% of the Canadian population is South Asian. Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant is the story of one such woman who gets entwined in the question of her identity and nationality.

The Redeemers by Suresh Taneja leaves a lot to be desired
Review / February 22, 2014

Author: Suresh Taneja
Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789382473398
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
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The Redeemers is based on an increasingly common theme in current fiction – futuristic dystopian societies and related uprisings. Though based on a promising idea, our reviewer feels that the book does not handle the issue in a sensitive or manner. Read on to get the full scoop. 

What does Shashi Tharoor have to say about India?
Review / February 19, 2014

Author:Shashi Tharoor
Publisher:Penguin Books
Year:2013
ISBN:9780143420187
Rating: ★★★★½
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Shashi Tharoor explores the foreign policy of India, its relations with other countries in his new book. Our reviewer gulped umpteen cups of coffee to fully digest the textual nature of this book. But were his efforts really worthy? Let’s find out!

Jerry Pinto on writing, reading, films and Meljol.
Authors Exclusive / February 18, 2014

Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian writer of poetry, prose and children’s fiction in English, as well as a journalist. His noted works include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006) which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and The Big Hoom was published in 2012 and won the Hindu Literary Prize.

World Book Fair Delhi 2014 in Photos
Article / February 17, 2014

Hung out at the World Book Fair at Pragati Maidan, Delhi, for couple of hours on 15th Feb. Heavy rains just a day before the inauguration of the fair showed its affect in the morning, though crowd started showing up by noon. Going around the whole arena wasn’t possible in a day, so here I would like to share what caught my eye!! Penguin Random House Booth Comics / Graphic Novel Section @Penguin Random House Amazon India Booth : Kindle, books, Associate Corner Amazing book covers at Asian educational services stall Release of Coffee Table Book ‘Horn Please’ – 1st book on Trucking An interesting booth by Quixot Publications, Children books corner Raj Comics Display, don’t you want to grab them all !! We bought 30 of those !!!!!! A view of Hindi Books Publications Booths How about reading Fifty Shades of Gray, in hindi And what about this one A click from a biography on Mr. Arvind Kejriwal What a pose Mr. Vishwas Reminded me of those dramatic titles