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…
4 Must-read Self-help Authors Who Actually Compel You to THINK!
In the contemporary age, there are two kinds of books have become more popular. First, romantic books and second are the self-help books. There may be many reasons that we…
Malini Amaladoss Brings Youthful Love, Romance, Relationship & A New Narrative
Romantic novels or romance novels or just romance, you can call this genre by many names but all point at, usually, a couple, break-ups, new couples, sex, a few deaths…
4 contemporary Hindi-Urdu poets & shayars who write various shades of love
Though we tend to ignore new trends if we are too accustomed to the old ones, it does not kill what is about to flourish or rusts what is about…
Mamta Kashyap’s comic excellence – An Unusual Honeymoon, a romantic novel
Honeymoons are meant to make love? Isn’t it? Well, not only that but also to know your partner, understand the emotional connection between the two and also to understand each…
Eve in the Land of Kali by Prema Raghavan – Book Review
Novels are often considered (and generally are) better than a collection of short stories. However, on occasions, you may call them special, short stories have that thing to beat novels…
The Art of Becoming Whole: A Guide to Self-Mastery by Pooja Khanna – Book Review
When it comes to understanding spirituality and spiritual ideas by reading books, things have largely been obscure for common readers in India. Understanding these texts might be a little difficult…