The Ritzy Maartle (The Mystery Crackers Book 3) – Review
The Ritzy Maartle is a suspense novel by Jinal Chirag Shah. Well, let this be conveyed at the outset that the novel is majorly written for a young audience who…
Uma Vanka drops the hint for his upcoming book, Future is B.I.G – technology, career, business, AI and more
Uma Vanka, the bestselling author who has written I AM A ROCKSTAR: An Expert Guide to Success, has announced his upcoming book on Social Media – Future is B.I.G. The…
Preety Praveen’s writing exhibits promise, simplicity, and a ‘serious’ concern for the romance genre
Indian fiction is almost becoming customary for the readers who read romance fiction day in and day out. A guy and a girl, most probably do not want to see…
Bond between readers and writers – secret to success as an author
Why do we know Ian Fleming? Why do we know Robert Ludlum? Why do we know J K Rowling? Coming to India, why do we know Chetan Bhagat? Why do…
A story of love, anger and Menopause – Her Passover by Jasmin Johnson brings a much-awaited discussion on the fore
Though the recent comment came from a cinema actress that there is no dearth of good content in Indian cinema (which many interpret to be Bollywood only), it is quite…
Kumar Dipanshu’s Next 5000 Years: memoirs of a Hindu without a tag – a personal attempt to express the (outsider’s) thoughts & emotions
“With the renewed interest in revitalizing cultural awareness, I have always stressed the need for ‘ingenuity’ in any effort to find the common thread of shared heritage.” While a kind…
The Poetician: A common man’s satire by Lov Pathak – Review
I have read satires by Dryden and Shadwell, vyangya by the great Indian authors like Harishankar Parsai and Sharad Joshi. I have also read critical works by the supposed great…
Sarojini Naidu: Selected Poetry and Prose Ed by Makarand R Paranjape – Review
Indian English Poetry offers a great display of diversity if you are careful enough to observe all those and minutely admire the threads that are almost invisible to the carefree…
Atal Bihari Vajpayee – the deliberately ignored poetry giant!
In India, every critic is a marxist critic emboldened with a great historical and contextual entitlement. And this gives rise to a very judgemental practice of literary criticism that discounts…
Just slandering an author without reading him or her is not criticism!
I have heard many readers (so-called elite ones), essentially from a literary background, often making wild, loud and abusive claims against so-called contemporary novelists in India who form the so-called…
Does it really matter how ones read a novel? Opinion
I am sure that many of us, readers and critics, book reviewers included, become judgemental when it comes to offering an opinion on someone else’s reading list. Ah, so you…
A Song for the Road by Kathleen M. Basi – Book Review
I am not a huge fan of books that make you feel ‘always wanting’ for an explanation and you keep dying to understand the story, the plot or even the…