Life finds a way… it always does
This book tells me that even when ‘every inconvenient truth, every wrinkle has been smothered’, life can twist and turn in ways that can transmute a delicate Murano wine glass into an aluminum bowl in a jail cell… just as it has transformed Kamini Pratap Singh, a ‘girl from the dingy gullies of Varanasi’ to‘learn...
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...
Revenge of a food blogger
Magi seemed to have read her mind well. ‘You’re not thinking about prawns at all right now,’ he said. ‘Prawns?’ she whispered, as if she had heard this word for the first time, and then mechanically she took a sip of the delicious Sauvignon Blanc in her glass and was miraculously brought back into the...
I wouldn’t want you to miss this…
Yes, I wouldn’t want you to miss the opportunity to vote for my story-idea submitted for the indiblogger-HarperCollins short-story contest! Click on this link: Vote for Arvind Passey’s story (For those who don’t want to click on a link, you can copy this URL and paste on a new tab in your browser and then...
“Revenge of a food blogger” My entry for the get published contest
The idea Love, they say, is an emotional high that doesn’t care much about logic. We are all capable of this form of love that has all the DNA of innocuous abstractness floating in it… and yet it is love alone that makes the human mind read between the lines, link up all the logical...
Gud Mawrning to read-n-recycle. Review of ‘Just Married: Please Excuse’
Yashodhara Lal has penned a novel that is surely going to promote the habit of read-n-trash… oops! read-n-recycle sounded so much more diplomatic and mild and forgetful and so virtuous! But a novel that has Hinglish, sometimes in a rather disconcerting text full of all-caps, words like ‘gud mawrning’ an over-dose of unconvincing incidents, and...
