As the title suggests the book is about a cripple. A man in search of his lost arm. ...
06:18 PM, Feb 20, 2013
The illustrations are breathtaking no doubt, however what is also very charming about the book is the way the tale has been narrated. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Jugal Mody believes in fiction. Before handling web and social media for Filmfare and Tehelka, he worked in gaming. As a rule, he only writes to feel like a dog sticking its head out the window of a moving car. 'Toke' is his first book. Here's an excerpt: We're on a mission now! A whining Suparna follows the three of us as we try to find a way out of...
12:48 PM, Sep 07, 2012
If you are looking to read a heavy-handed sort of a book, then Toke is definitely not for you. Then there is all the more reason for you to read it. Because its humour will ensure that you are laughing out loud at almost every page of the book. At least, that is what happened to me. "Toke" by Jugal Mody has all elements of a blockbuster novel. The one...
04:48 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Written by Kavita Daswani, 'Bombay Girl' is a story of Sohana Badshah, who has led a charmed existence " carefree, wealthy and from a close-knit family (at least as far she knows). And then she moves to London on a whim to pursue an interior design course, where she meets and falls passionately in love with Jagdish Sachdev - he of the compassionate heart and matchless brains. But Jag leaves...
04:32 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: Prose has for long edged poetry to the margins of contemporary Indian literature. It is only natural that the new reader is not familiar with the late Kamala Das or her bold feminist oeuvre of poetry and short story that gave her cult status in India like Sylvia Plath in the West. Now a new series to promote contemporary Indian poetry by publisher Harper Collins-India has begun with...
03:04 PM, Apr 03, 2012
'She mooned at him...' any novel that has this on line 12 has my undivided attention! It peters into: '...with her large blue eyes, fluttered her eyelashes, pouted, preened and sighed - elementary techniques that every apsara is taught during induction training.' Attention retracts. As the celestial nymph Urvashi reduces to a ho-hum 70's vamp with cheap blue contacts. Lenses, I mean. Her dialogues match. 'Trying hard!' Urvashi exclaimed. 'You...
12:34 PM, Feb 15, 2012
'The story of 'Bali and the Ocean of Milk' written by Nilanjan P Choudhury, has been derived from an old myth of the now lost Hurrian civilization, which traces its origins to the banks of the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia. The novel reimagines the eternal conflict between the Hurrian gods and their sworn enemies, the asuras, in a wacky thriller littered with bad jokes and corpses. Here's an extract from...
03:36 PM, Feb 07, 2012
