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Author: Uday Mahurkar
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184005141
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In a country like India, it is practically impossible to be neutral. If you are neutral, then your opinions probably aren’t worth listening to. If you search for online reviews of Uday Mahurkar’s Centrestage: Inside the Narendra Modi Model of Governance, chances are that you will come across words like “dispassionate” and “balanced”. Given the fact that Mahurkar has spent the greater part of his life in Gujarat, you would not be wrong in expecting that this just might be THE book which might unravel the substance behind the Modi hype that has enveloped the nation for the last six months.

Author: Reekrit Serai
Publisher: Rumour Books India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781629513164
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Impulse revolves around various stories of modern India. The main theme being love, it breaks the romantic notions of love to confront you with today’s realities. Most of these stories end in tragedies, with a few happy endings here and there. Written by a 22-year old author from Chandigarh, the stories are of young India by a young Indian.

Author: Aditya Magal
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184004342
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The hilarious mind behind the popular parody blog ‘The Secret Journal of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’, Aditya Magal, has churned out his first novel based on the egotistical investor and stock broker Mr. Jhunjhunwala. This star character from his blog is now faced with a peculiar situation.

Author: Sidin Vadukut
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788129129031
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We all have come across that list of facts which boasts that 12% of scientists and 38% of doctors in the US are Indians, 4 out of 10 NASA scientists are Indians, India has never invaded another country, zero was invented in India etc. Without blinking, we Indians take great pride in and believe all of these as this is more convenient than actually verifying them.

Author: Anurag Mathur
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788129131102
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The Country is Going to the Dogs is the latest novel from the bestselling author of The Inscrutable Americans, Anurag Mathur. I haven’t read The Inscrutable Americans but after reading this book, I have no desire to read it. What has been marketed as a sex comedy with key words like “sex siren”, “gay bashes” and “wife-swapping parties” marked in bold and different colors in the blurb and unnecessary silhouettes of nude chicks doing pole dancing and yoga poses on the cover turns out to be a book with a noodle-thin nonsensical plot, mid-way through which you wonder what could be the reason for this mental torture.

Author: Robert Galbraith
Publisher: Hachette India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9781408704035
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The second Cormoran Strike novel gets its writer an ‘Exceeds Expectations’ O.W.L. Deftly plotted, intricately detailed and with much better character development than its predecessor, The Silkworm is a must-read in the best traditions of British detective fiction.

Author: Saba Imtiaz
Publisher: Random House
Year:2014
ISBN: 9788184004601
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Karachi, you’re killing me! is a debut story by a young journalist, and surprisingly a chick – lit. With wide acclaims and high expectations from her writing, let’s find out if the author is upto the mark!

Author: Shuchi Singh Kalra
Publisher: Indireads Inc.
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9781927826324
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Done with Menis a quirky, fun-to-read story by a debutante author. It charts an episode in the life of Kay, a self-proclaimed failure at relationships. 

The Shining, Stephen King’s third book was an instant bestseller and Stanley Kubrick’s movie based on the book went on to become a masterpiece in no time and is hailed as one of the scariest movies ever. The question arises which is better?

Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Amulet Books
Year: 2007
ISBN: 9780810993136
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“If there’s one thing I learned from Rodrick, it’s to set people’s expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.”
― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid