10 Best Film Adaptations of Novels
Book lovers despise the films and film lovers can’t understand the fuss around the books. But once in a while a brilliant movie adaptation...
Making Books – July 2014
CONTROVERSY CREATORS
THE ACCIDENTAL PRIME MINISTER
By Sanjaya Baru
Sanjaya Baru writes an account of his time as a staff member of the PMO during the Manmohan Singh era. Baru reveals what it...
The Smoke is Rising – Mahesh Rao
A CITY UNDER SIEGE: THE SMOKE IS RISING
At a time when Indian literature has become synonymous with the likes of 2 States and The Shiva Trilogy, it is...
Getting to Know John Irving
John Irving is an American writer of novels and screenplays. He has won the National Book Award for Fiction as well an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
HIS THEMES
Fictional biographies that mask larger issues such...
Shanti Memorial: Cheers to insanity and bloodlust
Shanti Memorial is actor-turned-writer Shadaab Khan's first novel. Here is our review of the book and a short interview with the author
Shanti Memorial is...
The Longest Ride: Voyages into Love
Frankly, it was quite a while since I laid my hands on a romantic novel. But, I thought, why not? It is perfectly juxtaposed for the...
Book Matchmaker – End of Story
END OF STORY? BY ARJUN SHEKHAR
Arjun Shekhar’s second novel is an exploration of the corruption that exists in the media-big business nexus. Through the...
Sir Alex Ferguson shows the way
Avid football and Manchester United fan Sean D'Mello reviews the second autobiography of Sir Alex Ferguson
Football is a game of measures. You can’t come...
The Dream Chasers: Lechery amid the notion of love
Sean Sequeira reviews IAS officer Vipual Mittra's second novel, 'The Dream Chasers', and talks to the man himself about his book. The Dream Chasers is...
Being Malala
It was just over a year ago that a veiled Talib entered a school bus in Pakistan with a gun and questioned, “Who is...
