Here are some of those prize winning books which have a ‘Desi’ flavour; Indian booker Prize winners as well as those that are set in India or feature Indian protagonists.
If you joined fantasy crowd after watching The Lord of the Rings movies or The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey or the current pop culture phenomenon Game of Thrones TV series then you are not alone.
In terms of number of attendees, there was no doubt as to who were the winners: Shobha De and Ashwin Sanghi. These are both writers who know how to package themselves.
A tongue-in-cheek investigation into Ganesha’s role in writing the epic of epics, the Mahabharata. Did he just take dictation…. or did he play a more active role in shaping this greatest of all sagas?
The joys of e-books are essentially the basic miracles of the digital age – speed, convenience, security (if you take a backup, and you should) and, sometimes but not always, price – the e-book versions of books typically retail for lower than the price of the paperback/hardcover versions. And look, Ma – no trees cut!
India, it is a puzzle of a million pieces. Sometimes they fit together and sometimes they just miss each other by a slight geographic or historical tampering around the edge. India is the vibrant folktale locked inside every historian. It is the ballad sung in the courts of Mauryas and Guptas. India is the very beauty of the British Architecture that adorns Kolkatta.[a] It is the anomalies of French and Portuguese culture that brews in the cafes and clubs of Pondicherry and Goa. It is the friction which exists with the Chinese on the east and Pakistanis on the west and yet it is the peace which resonates with the harmony of South Asia. It suffers from the stereotypes of western media and yet it enjoys the respect of western authors and poets. And this India is one of the many chapters an Indian studies , thus an Indian is the sense of graduating in few of the million myths, stereotypes, epitaphs , accolades and applauses awarded to India. When my father was growing up, mathematics was the speed and accuracy of calculations, displayed in the oral recitations of multiplicative tables [ pahadas], and when I was growing up…
As our country gets ready to celebrate one of its biggest national holidays, citizens all over its length and breadth will gear up to put up a dazzling show of national pride. School teachers will teach their pupils patriotic songs. Housing societies will organize flag hoisting ceremonies, preceded by a seemingly polite but emotionally charged battle over which member will do the honours.
Ever so often, it seems like the cine version of a book portrays the story quite differently than the original. Is it because of your imagination? Or has the story truly been tampered with? I recently watched the 1992 version of Wuthering Heights, which is also one of my all time favorite novels, so I thought I’d use that to find out
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The characters simply don’t match with the ones you had in your imagination!
When you read a book, you create a world of people within your head. And when you enter a theatre and see different people pretending to be your beloved characters..
I used to think J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was a story one of its kind. And then came along a green monochrome paperback with a very sweet sounding name: The Perks of being a Wallflower. After recovering from the initial shock that some Stephen Chbosky has dared to copy Salinger’s magnum opus, I realized that though the plot isn’t very intense, Perks is no less than a modern classic itself.
Fellow human, please tell me that I am not the only one who is this influenced by a book, for I am scared that the society might question my sanity.