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My unblemished self

There is a presumed purity about when you enter this world. Not marked by the world and its inclemency, you are “born”– a fresh chapter on a brand-new page of life. The beginning, miles to go and so on. We do forget that we are marked by the genes of our parents, the executional biology […]

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The Last sigh of emperor moonpie :Prologue

The apple of the planet, the brightest jewel of all, 7th in line from Tigriz the Terrible, and the blood descendant of the Olard family, Emperor Sweet-cheeks Moonpie Survinder Sahni had it enough. He didn’t bat an eye when thousands of his subjects were slaughtered in the carnage at the Lal Qila L2, he didn’t […]

My day at bangalore literature festival

Continuing the annual tradition, yesterday I attended the 12th edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival #blrlitfest. Scouring the website before going to Lalit Ashok, I found that while there weren’t many celebrities (apart from the usual suspects of mainstream authors and Huma Qureshi), there were a lot many sessions being conducted – in fact the […]

Book review: The Glory of Patan by KM Munshi

I had read ‘Krishnavatar’ by K.M. Munshi long back, had fun reading those books. It was one of the first mythological fiction series in India, published way back in 1962, much before the Meluhas of the world. I always wanted to read his historical fiction ‘Patan’ trilogy, but could never get around it. Recently, I […]

BOOK REVIEw: The night fire by michael connelly

3 STARS The book definitely kept me hooked and engaged. But some situations were contrived as the torch was getting passed over from Bosch to Ballard – Connelly is delicately trying to prime his audience, Bosch is already 70 years old. But he doesn’t want the loyal fanbase and readership to fall once Bosch is […]

Book review: ‘man’s search for meaning’

Viktor Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ was my father’s oft-quoted book when I was growing up. He would narrate how the author mentally survived the harrowing Nazi concentration camps and found meaning in his suffering which made his life worthwhile even though his life was hardly certain or fair. I recently got a chance to […]

Book review: shoe dog

Phil Knight is a true entrepreneur and ‘Shoe Dog’ is the journey of Nike coasting from one insurmountable challenge to another, as it became larger and larger. Who knew, back in the day, that the perennially illiquid, short-stocked, frequently unbanked and involved in a major legal brawl ‘Blue Ribbon’ would one day become a multi-billion-dollar […]

Book review: the Ink black Heart

This is Robert Galbriath’s ‘Order of Phoenix’ – though I loved that one a lot more. A bulky tome set at a meandering pace, with a decent mystery at its core and an engaging voice of a master storyteller, this book exudes the confidence of a middle-aged man unabashedly, unashamed of his large paunch. J.K. […]

Book REVIEW: CHILDREN OF TIME BY Adrian Tchaikovsky

Don’t tell them that I haven’t warned you about spoilers! Ineffectual human protagonist and unlikeable characters galore (though the arachnids were great), this book is the best I have read this year so far. Definitely up there with Asimov’s & Herbert’s books – the ideas presented were so amazing that it actually made me giddy. […]

Book review: ‘Lost light’ by michael connelly

Michael Connelly is a well-oiled machine turning our tightly-wound thrillers, running on the twin engines of Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller. There are other booster engines, but these two carry the author into the stratosphere. ‘Lost Light’ is an amazing Bosch thriller. Not a single page wasted, not a single pay-off denied to the reader. […]

The Last Sigh of Emperor Moonpie : Chapter 2: Bankrupt

Sriman Vats twirled his moustache in worry. There were bags under his eyes, his shoulders were slack – as if he were carrying the burden on the entire world, which he was. But this Atlas was in no position to shrug. “Can they do this?” Princess Nony asked. That was the first question she asked […]