Friday, December 5, 2025

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...

Recent Releases – October 2013

AN.AL: THE ORIGINS by Athul DeMarco Genre: Horror, gore Plot: Steeped in gore, violence and expletives, this is the adventures of two amateur detectives Andy and Alfie who share one body. Price: Rs. 250           HOW NOT TO MAKE MONEY by...

There May be an Asterisk Involved: Not Another Chick Lit – Rs. 299

Another ‘chick lit’ by an Indian author? I was a little sceptical when I picked up There May Be an Asterisk Involved by Vedashree Khambete...

Getting to Know Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni writes short stories, novels and poems. She has won a number of awards for her work, and her stories have been made into...

A Croaky Call from The Cuckoo's Calling

As much as I wanted to divorce the name J.K. Rowling from The Cuckoo’s Calling while reading it, I couldn’t. No one can. It doesn’t...