The drama never ends
Memoirs can be superbly entertaining and, many times, be full of quaint incidents or snippets that inform as well. They aren’t all going around in some formulaic way because ‘Becoming’ by Michele Obama, ‘Kitchen Confidential’ by Anthony Bourdain, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom, and even ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’...
Let’s settle this right here
Let’s settle this right here Review of ‘Bringing the Rainbow – the Hindware Story’ I love fiction. But I have a deep respect for non-fiction and the reason is that every snippet, every little story here is backed by a conviction that only reality has. So when I began reading ‘Bringing the Rainbow...
Between ambition and ability
Between ambition and ability Review of ‘Made in India’ by Biddu If given a choice to read fiction or an autobiography, I will invariably choose the latter because there is so much life breathing in the pages there. It doesn’t matter if it is the real story of an ordinary citizen or a lauded and...
Autobiography of that unclean stubble
The stage was set. Microphones were functional. It was a gathering that stubble-land had never heard of before and so they had called it STUBBLEBURN of the unbathed stubble group. They were all there with all their attention. Some were in black achkans and others in sedate grey or even white sherwanis. After all, their...
