A Thrilling Dive into a Gathering of Tanka Verses
Words love other words and have that strange magical power to turn each of their get-togethers into duels, sermons, inquisitions, insights, decisions, barbs, directions or whatever else they are asked to do. Sometimes we just let them clump into complex shapes that defy any description and allow them to go on with their search. It...
The curse of Kuldhara – book review
There are suspense and thriller tales that hardly ever let the adrenalin rush subside, those where calculated risks abound and then yet others where the power of the narrative scores. ‘The curse of Kuldhara’ by Richa S Mukherjee has all of these in scattered evenly and, in addition, is also like a delectable mix of...
Untangling the insanity of doing business
Untangling the insanity of doing business Review of Irrationally Passionate Well, yes, every once in a while someone who can infuse a new perspective to business decision-making and executions pops up like an Argonaut to set things right. The story of Jason Kothari and the way he turned from a rebel to an entrepreneur is...
On buying books
Buying books makes me happy and reading them makes me happier. There was a time when each visit to the bazaar and later to some mall meant we came back with a few new books every time. I completely agree with Mary Ann Shaffer from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she...
All it needed was a few seconds of gunfire
All it needed was a few seconds of gunfire Review of ‘Red Maize’ written by Danesh Rana Terrorism isn’t all about mindless killings and search operations, it isn’t just about mujahids, aatankvadis and dehshatgards either. It isn’t about soldiers and martyrs, and nor is it about cryptic codenames like RP, Romeo Papa, Commander, The...
Adjectives for Sid
The book’s cover calls Sid a ‘man in progress’ and the cover behind the cover (yes, and that’s something of an innovation for a novel) calls him amiable, easy-going, lovable, beer-lover, idiosyncratic, witty, impulsive, thoughtless, vain, master of denial, idiotic, well-meaning, comical, vice-president, metrosexual, and smart-ass. Even his relationship with his wife in the first...
