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’...
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...
It’s not that simple to be simple, says Chetan Bhagat
I saw him from a distance and waved. He smiled and waved back. No airs. No snooty looks thrown at anyone. Chetan Bhagat loves to retain his easy and communicative personality… and I guess this is exactly how he has shaped his writing through the years. As we walked around the poolside area in Hyatt...
Battle for survival. Review of ‘Bestseller’ by Ahmed Faiyaz
Battle for survivalReview of ‘Bestseller’ by Ahmed Faiyaz No, this review isn’t about battles fought on the borders of a country but an interesting, fictional and a somewhat factually cursory glance of ways in which authors, publishers, editors, celebrities, journalists, and those in PR are invariably pulled together to define success. Publishing isn’t just another...
Yet another failed attempt by Chetan Bhagat
Book review.
'The Girl in Room 105' written by Chetan Bhagat.
When you take a closer look at the pedestrian attempts of Keshav Rajpurohit and Saurabh at solving a murder mystery you sometimes feel as if the writer was a curious mix of a genre-challenged Enid Blyton (that she never was) and a pathetically jumbled-up Agatha Christie...
We live in a world populated by sales instincts
Don’t ever make the mistake of assuming that creativity is what makes the world work wonders. I see everyone selling something or the other all over. Hard-sell, I thought had finally conquered the human mind… until I read what Leo Burnett had to say on this. He wrote that there’s no such thing as ‘hard...
A world beyond words
A world beyond words Review of 31 Miles written by Vinita Bakshi Is it a mere coincidence that I have begun writing the review of this book with the help of proofreaders sydney on the 6th of February which isn’t too far from the National Mathematics Day? Let me first explain the connection. This book...
The writer of ‘high-octane thrillers’
It was the Asian Age that called his writings ‘high-octane thrillers’ and as my review of one of his books agrees with this opinion, I thought it was best to pick the words to title my chit-chat on a few interesting aspects on the writer’s world. Kulpreet, the person, is unnervingly straight-forward and has a...
