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Book Review: 23 & ½ Ways to Make a Girl Fall for You

First things first, I am not a huge fan of Cyrus Broacha‘s brand of comedy. So, you would ask – why did I then pick up a book by him to review? In my defence, I will say I wanted to know if he is better as a writer than a comedian. We don’t want to judgemental pricks, right?

Just for the sake of that curiosity, I waded through this non-fiction. Cover to Cover. The book is a collection of queries…

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Book Review: The Man in Riddles Sufism has always intrigued me and so have its saints; Rumi being the most famous of them.

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Multi-Tasking? Try Audio Books Audio books haven't picked up on a large scale in India, it is perhaps because the utility of this medium is not quite well-understood.

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Book Review: Skyfire The trio of journalist Chandrasekhar, historian Meenakshi Pirzada and intelligence officer Syed Ali Hassan from The Shadow Throne…

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Book Review: The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen

The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen is Salil Desai‘s 4th published work and 3rd crime thriller. The book brings back the team of Inspector Saralkar and Constable Motkar from Desai’s debut – Killing Ashish Karve. And thankfully so. After a dismissal 2nd book – Murder on the Side Street, where the author attempted with a group of young investigators, I am glad to be reading a thriller featuring the…

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Book Review: Punk Sunk Love

The title of the book, a combination of three words, did not make much sense to me. I was hoping reading the book would clear that confusion up and bring a magical connection that will reveal the purpose behind the curious name. With the growing influence of vernacular words on the title, I wasn’t even sure if I was reading English words or some famous Hinglish expression. The cover image,…

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Book Review: Citadel of Love

Citadel of Love by Pratibha Ray was first written in Odiya as Silapama and is the winner of Odisha Sahitya Academy Award. Translated into English by Monalisa Jena, if there is one word that can describe the experience of reading this book, it is – brilliant! For one the book doesn’t read like a translation and therein lies the biggest achievement for Jena. As for Ray, she takes us on a visual…

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Book Review: No Safe Zone

No Safe Zone is Adite Banerjee‘s 3rd fiction and this time she steps out of her comfort zone. Her earlier two books – Bollywood Fiancé For a Day & Trouble Has a New Name were pure contemporary romances but this one is romance with a twist and I am sure Banerjee had a blast plotting this one. With this book the author steps into the genre of Suspense Romance and does a real good job with it. No…

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Book Review: When Love Finds You

When Love Finds You is Yashodhara Lal‘s 4th book; a contemporary romance set in New Delhi. Like her earlier three, this one too is set in the corporate world and is an insider’s story with an alpha heroine, a loveable hero and a sly villain to complete the mix. But unlike the earlier books, one doesn’t come away impressed. To start with the title of the book and the cover page both could not have…

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Book Review: One Indian Girl

Chetan Bhagat in a recent interview said that many Indian women tell him that he understands them better than most men. If his latest book is anything to go by I think those women are right. I won’t say he understands Indian women completely but whatever he understands, he does understand bang on. So for one, Bhagat has researched really well for this book and had the guts to write what he…

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Book Review: It's All In The Planets

Book Review: It’s All In The Planets

First things first. Three things that made me pick the book up: one its a Westland book, my experience says they pick good stories, second Preeti Shenoy is the only woman in the top five best selling Indian writers so I decided to take the plunge and third the cover is decent, not great but not bad either. My takeaway: Book publishing is still a business, got to print what sells. It’s All In The…

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Book Review: Dear Kalam Sir

Once in a while comes along a book that immediately catapults itself into your favourites. Into something that you want to go to when you are in an emotional turmoil. Into that external support that only words can give. Your go-to book. Dear Kalam Sir is that book for me. Dear Kalam Sir is a very innovative and beautiful coffee table book. The case with the genre of coffee table books, more often…

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Book Review: Love Bi The Way

Some stories need to be told, not because they are exceptional as stories or the author has exemplary narration skills but because some stories ask questions. This is one. Bhaavna Arora‘s latest book Love Bi The Way came to me while it was at the desk of the editors at Penguin as a spiral bound manuscript and later as a chic-looking paperback. The cover page as well as the title is a sheer…

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Book Review: Rightfully Wrong Wrongfully Right

Varsha Dixit is back with Sneha, Nandini, Aditya, Nikhil, Gayatri and a new character Viraj. While the first book in the Right Wrong series was Nandini and Aditya’s story, the second one was about Sneha and Nikhil, the third book – Rightfully Wrong, Wrongfully Right brings to the readers the story of diva and vamp from the first two books – Gayatri & Viraj. Though this time around the author has…

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Book Review: Wasted In Engineering

The book has one of the most interesting titles and cover images. The title is a thought that resonates among millions of engineering graduates across the country. The cover picture is conceptualised well – one of a ‘wasted engineer’ holding a placard that announces her as a photographer, showing that she studied engineering but ultimately ended up following her passion, anyway. The additional…

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10 Do’s and Don’ts For Your First Book Launch

Writing a book is like having a baby. You nourish an idea for months, feeding it from your own blood, sweat and soul (sometimes even tears in case Writer’s Block comes looking) and then, somehow, by some miracle, your baby is conceived – you finish writing it. Now comes the gestation period – the period of sending it off to agents and publishers, hoping for that all-elusive yes. And then…then…it…

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