Its easy to not feel like putting down a thriller.To read it in one go.Its however,quite hard to feel the same,about a book of short stories.And not exactly Saki type stories.Short,open-ending type stories about failed marriages,lost love,painful divorces,the works.But Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage does exactly that. Initially,I wasn’t all so impressed with her writing.But,as [...]

It took A Thousand Splendid Suns to realize that what I have is priceless.The love,the freedom,the job,the good men.Not every woman has a chance at all these.

Liked this one.The Mahabharata has always fascinated me,unlike The Ramayana.It has all the elements that most of us would love in an out-an-out entertainment flick.Love,Action,Death-defying stunts,philosophy,revenge and what not.No matter how many times I read it,I always find that every other book seems to add on so many smaller anecdotes that I never knew,existed in [...]

Thought for sometime. In a world of time,nothing can go back to the way it was. So true.The line that made the most sense in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami . I’ve no single word to describe the book.It was interesting reading,as in a page-turner.Yes,I did ,at every point,want to know what happened [...]

Finally,restraining myself from skipping words,descriptions,trying to imagine every single line written,I managed to finish the Deathly Hallows.My verdict :a big big thumbs up to Rowling.She finished it in class,in style.Tied up the loose ends of the plot(or all the loose ends that I remember).Managed to keep the book at a racy pace,especially towards the last [...]

Hell ? I’m not so sure if I would be going to heaven [ definitely not if small time grudges,little lies to parents,whacking sis with a badminton racquet right on her head during childhood , harsh words uttered etc.. are considered as big sins.Then I'm definitely going to the cauldron].Anyways,this post is not about the [...]

In 1972,an Uruguayan plane carrying 45 passengers crashed somewhere in the icy mountains of the Andes.Of the 45 passengers,most of them were members of the then Uruguayan rugby team which was on its way to play a match at Chile .And only 16 survived to tell their tale.The 72- day ordeal that the 16 survivors [...]