Do you believe in love at first sight? And does love at first sight happens because of collective circumstances that lead to it? 'The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight' is a book as the title says, quite what it is - love and the chances of it at first sight. When Hadley misses her flight to London by four minutes, she never expects to meet Oliver - someone...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Cricket has not caught on to any major extent in Afghanistan even 11 years after the Taliban was pushed out of Kabul in 2001. The sports-shy Afghans are still too battle-scarred to laugh their angst away on the pitch. However, literary fiction explores unimaginable possibilities for peace in Afghanistan and escape from the daily acts of subversion. Cricket, the game of friendship, and the tyranny of the Taliban...
01:20 PM, May 14, 2012
Los Angeles: John Travolta's lawyer on Friday hit back at 'ridiculous' new claims of sexual advances leveled at the actor by a third man, as a first accuser backtracked on the date of an alleged Beverly Hills incident. Cruise ship worker Fabian Zanzi claimed on a Chilean TV show, 'Primer Plano,' that the Hollywood star offered him $12,000 to have sex while on a cruise in 2009. It was unclear...
05:00 PM, May 12, 2012
'Man could perceive some unseen, unheard, untouchable, non-aromatic divine power only after the evolution of his imagination.' Ajay Kansal in his latest book 'The Evolution of Gods' attempts to explain religious scriptures from the world over. He talks about how most religions claim that God has made man, although no supernatural power has been identified by science that created and governed humans. According to the author, men could perceive gods...
03:08 PM, May 11, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
Smart, sassy and funny, 'The Moslems are Coming', is a well written book which emerged from Essa's award-winning blog on Thought Leader. An insightful take on global politics, he tackles race and religion, bigotry from anti-Semitism to opposition to blacks, gives a fresh perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict and casts new light on old stereotypes. He also presents the existing views about a particular issue which is talked about in...
03:39 PM, May 09, 2012
The story begins with an incident in the life of a Sikh family which is targeted after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The narrative follows the wedding of Ashu, the daughter of the man who died due to Sikh violence and the granddaughter of influential Tara Singh, a famous industrialist. The author Shamini Flint has interjected bouts of humour, which makes it a very interesting read. The author manages to...
01:10 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-six-year-old Shin Dong-Hyuk may not be as famous as Dith Pran, the Cambodian labour camp survivor in the 1984 screen drama, 'The Killing Fields', but his true survival story as a condemned political prisoner in North Korea who escaped is as powerful as it is unbelievable. Shin, who was born in one of the six sprawling Gulag style no-exit political prisons located 55 miles (88 km) north of...
12:44 PM, May 09, 2012
In the year 1930 during in the Civil Disobedience Movement led by Mahatma Gandhi millions of Indians bought and publically set British goods on fire. Among them was the author of the book 'My Days in Prison', Urmila Shastri, who joined the movement as a volunteer for the Congress. She was arrested on the grounds of both picketing and instigating university students against the Government with the words- 'Who knows...
03:43 PM, May 08, 2012
'The Dance of Death' is a story about the trial of Daata Anand, a leader of a religious cult who is accused of murdering his followers. This trial has a peculiar effect on Kishen Das - a young law graduate who suffers from nightmares, which seem untreatable, and the Judge presiding over the case, whose family is threatened in lieu to the case. Money has a tendency to change a...
01:28 PM, May 08, 2012
The main title alone should make you reach for this book, though I'm not entirely sure about the cover design. Given how we tend to judge books by their covers, that's a point that can't be ignored, I suppose. But that's pretty much where the criticism ends! Venugopal has a feel for writing, loves reading, books, and writers in general, and I feel like she could have gone on! Maybe...
01:02 PM, May 08, 2012
'Em and the Big Hoom' by Jerry Pinto may be positioned as a book about a mother's descent into madness, but at the core to me, it was the story of a family. Not dysfunctional as much as a family thrown together in a circumstance, who make the most of life while dealing with the way things turn out for them. Readers have speculated and critics have opinionated that the...
12:50 PM, May 07, 2012
Indian Literature is under-rated. I have always believed that most Indian writers (great ones at that) are often not spoken about or mentioned at all. Some great books are never discussed. That's a sad situation for a country that is so rich in literature - considering the number of languages stories are weaved in and then translated for the English reader's (like me) benefit, only not to be praised. One...
04:14 PM, May 02, 2012
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