The title of this book, The Bestseller She Wrote pretty much tells what the story is going to be but still along the path Ravi has weaved many twists and turns. Shreya, the beautiful, cocky, smart and cunning girl is obviously out to have her way and stops at pretty much nothing to achieve it …
About the Book: Akriti has led a pretty much sheltered life. Zayn has been shuttled from city to city when he was growing up. She is comfortable watching her life from the sidelines. He wants to feel rooted to a place he can call ‘home’. They meet each other quite by chance. And both seize the chance to be someone …
Really Long Post Alert!!! I had eagerly picked up The Dove’s Lament, reading it and hoped to review it before I went for my holiday to Leh and beyond. (No connectivity) Yet as things happen, this book and another one, also short stories got left behind at home in the mad rush to catch the …
This is the second book by that I have read by Amit Shankar and I like his writing style more and more. The ideas he has expressed through the struggle, rise and fall of Avantika are indeed deep and thought provoking. The character and flaws of Avi, her self-absorption, her denial, her struggle …
A Second Spring is a story of unsaid promises and unrequited love; the kind that sometimes takes years to get over with. Sometimes it changes your outlook and you are just living and not enjoying life. This is a heart-wrenching tale of pinning for love and finding it in the unlikeliest of place! Avantika is …
The book talks about love and sex wondering if they can be an alternate for each other through the hero Yuvi and his love story. He falls for a girl called Simran, his neighbour and then he himself complicates his love story. The story is straightforward enough and goes on a pretty predictable route. …
Lucifer’s Lungi by Nitin Sawant The Blurb An atheist city-slicker unleashed on a medieval holy village…A simpleton village priest’s boy who blindly worships and guards a pantheon of Gods and Their traditions…Strange things happen when their worlds collide!This is a tale of that turmoil on a lonely night in a jungle, when the ghosts you …
The Malhotra Bride by Sundari Venkatraman The Malhotra Bride – Sunita is a 20 something girl who is still trying to find herself in a world that is trying to mould her into a submissive puppet like most Indian women. That she finds her prince charming right at the first encounter is both unsettling and enchanting for …
A short story titled as Nails and Nests is about the perseverance of nature and the small birds – pigeons. How they build their nest in the oddest of places. Even with the threats of iron nails, they decided to build their nest and thrive. Nails Abound But Our Nests Survive. The pigeon fluttered his …