Review : Romi and Gang by Tushar Raheja
Review / August 11, 2013

Author: Tushar Raheja
Publisher: Pirates
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788192681009
Rating: ★★★½☆
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I started reading this book with a sceptical mind, the seeds of doubt having been planted already. After all, Tushar Raheja, the author of "Anything for you, Ma'am" was one of the first movers of the ubiquitous young adult genre. But, he has jumped off that bandwagon to provide us with a whole new ball game (pun intended) – Romi & Gang.

Review : The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Review / June 24, 2013

Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780593054277
Rating: ★★½☆☆
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Just as I was finishing the lost symbol, a friend of mine asked me – “Is that the book where something is written on the obelisk?” My tongue in cheek reply was, “It’s Dan Brown, isn’t there always something written on the obelisk?”

Sir Rajini Norris V/s Jack Reacher – Review of The Affair by Lee Child
Review / June 10, 2013

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2011
ISBN: 978038534432-6
Rating: ★★★½☆
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"Jack Reacher once made a journal, it is now called the Guinness Book of World Records"

Forget Rajinikanth, Sir Ravindra Jadeja and Chuck Norris! Make way for Jack Reacher !

If you are wondering who Jack Reacher is, he is cool headed, stoic, uncomplicated , not one to live by the rules, the quintessential "bawss" and oh, also the protagonist of this novel-"The Affair". Jack Reacher, a Major in United States Army Military Police Corps is the lead man in almost 18 of Lee Child's novels, called the Jack Reacher series.

The Consummate Storyteller – An Interview with Jeffrey Archer
Authors Exclusive / April 18, 2013

Lord Jeffrey Archer, one of the most successful writers of our times has magically been at the top of his chosen profession for about 35 years now. No mean feat in a field as competitive and tough as being a full-time author. But wait! While best known as an author, hasn’t he also been a politician? Well, yes, and probably the only one ever to put his stint in the government “guest house” on record in a couple of successful books.

A befitting culmination – Oath of the Vayuputras
Review / March 24, 2013

Author: Amish Tripathi
Publisher: Westland Press
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789382618348
Rating: ★★★★☆
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Har Har Mahadev – Every one of us is a Mahadev!
 
Book Three of the Shiva Trilogy – The Oath of the Vayuputras is a fitting end to the widely popular series by Amish. For those of you’ll who haven’t read the first two books, The Shiva Trilogy is a human take on Lord Shiva’s life. What if Shiva weren’t a God, but simply a human being with exceptional attributes who was worshipped in a godly frenzy?

Of India, Cricket, Books and more – Lord Jeffrey Archer at Chennai
Article / March 20, 2013

Lord Jeffrey Archer – a prolific writer

Lord Jeffrey Archer – an outstanding orator

The second part is a lesser known detail about this exceptional author, except for those who have had the pleasure of listening to him. I, for one, was lucky twice! Once, when Lord Archer was at Chennai to promote his then-latest, Paths of Glory. And more recently, on a book tour for the third book of the Clifton Chronicles –Best Kept Secret, which brought him to Chennai

If you were Bella, who would you pick?
Article / February 12, 2013

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…

Three people, Three birthdays, Three turning points…
Review / January 9, 2013

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780552154802
Rating: ★★★★☆
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The last three books I have been reading were all Danielle Steel’s and I have thoroughly enjoyed every single of them ! Some people would not weigh a Steel novel in the same scale as that of Dan Brown or John Grisham. For instance, when my cousin got married, her husband asked me who my favorite author was, and pat came my reply– Danielle Steel.

It certainly is a ‘Matter of the Heart’
Review / December 27, 2012

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978055216023
Rating: ★★★½☆
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Danielle Steel is on a roll. When I see a Steel novel, I simply cannot resist picking it up and immediately get started on it, mainly for the warmth that it envelops us in. And the variety that Steel offers in her recent novels is incredible. “Betrayal” one of her recent works was a thriller, whereas, “Promise”,

Review : Betrayal
Review / December 6, 2012

Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Bantam Press
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780593063118
Rating: ★★★½☆
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The first time I read a Steel, after a string of Dan Brown’s and Jeffery Archer’s, it was on my aunt’s recommendation. I was on vacation and Danielle Steel fit my mood to a T. I do admit, I was on the last hundred pages, and I still was wondering when the plot would set in!! Only when I was through with the last chapter, did I realize that the story was not progressing any further. It was a bit of an anti climax actually!