Book Reviews
Book Review: Like A Girl by Aparna Jain
Did you know who was the first musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna - the highest civilian award for our country? It was M S Subbulakshmi. That's right! She wasn't just the first female musician but rather the first musician ever. I hadn’t known or realized this...
Book Preview: Blasphemy-The Trial of Danesh Masih
One of the biggest privileges of working with a publishing house is that one gets to read books even before they hit the market. And if that book becomes one of your favourite reads, you'd go crazy recommending it to everyone as soon as it releases. That exactly what...
Book Review: Fearless Freedom by Kavita Krishnan
In a recent article I wrote about women change-makers, it was evident how gender equality, and as a result women’s freedom, needed a change at the social, cultural, and political level to be able to provide women the autonomy they need. The first step in providing...
Book Review: Kalkatta Chronicles by Supriya Newar
When I first started reading Kalkatta Chronicles, published by Readomania, it was with the expectation of vicariously visiting a city I had only known about from afar. The various stories I had heard led to a yearning within me to visit the stately capital of West...
Book Review: Escape Velocity
I have a special affinity for short stories, and especially, ones with female protagonists. Here was an entire collection! The previous such book I had read was Madhulika Liddle’s Woman To Woman (and, interestingly, the friend who had recommended it to me is a part of...
Book Review: Being Reshma by Reshma Qureshi
An acid attack is, in my opinion, one of the most heinous and damaging crimes against women.When I first visited Sheroes Hangout Cafe at Agra and met the acid attack survivors, it changed me forever.I wrote about that first experience - an article I share regularly...
Book Review: The Legend of Genghis Khan by Sutapa Basu
The Legend of the Genghis Khan, published by Readomania, as the title obviously suggests, is the story of the world's most fearsome conqueror-one who I had only briefly read about in history books. This book, however, is not sketchy, but in fact, a well-researched and...
Book Review: The Boy Who Loved Trains
Indian Railways is the largest single-entity employer in India, and the eight largest in the world. This is a fascinating fun fact for those not familiar with the length and breadth of the railway tracks in the country. For those of us who have actually spent most of...
Not A Review: Twilight’s Children
There are a few books, in my opinion, that are beyond a review. At least, they should be. This doesn’t mean you cannot critique them. But that those flaws are insignificant in comparison to the message the book delivers. My latest read, Twilight’s Children –...
Book Review – To Hell and Back By Anurag Anand
How often would you have heard the common whine – 'It was so meant to be' or 'Who can fight fate?' What if the hand that life deals you wasn’t actually one that fate had played but one that you and your choices and decisions led to? This is the premise of Readomania's...
Book Review: When Padma Bani Paula by Anupama Jain
When I first got to know that my fellow author in Mock, Stalk and Quarrel was coming out with a full-fledged novel I was obviously thrilled for her. What added even more to the charm of the book was that it had initially been a short story which was later expanded to...
Book Review: A Thousand Unspoken Words by Paulami DuttaGupta
Just before I first picked up A Thousand Unspoken Words, I had finished reading some very difficult but hard-hitting books like Status Single and Mornings in Jenin. In fact, the only reason I picked up this one was that I was looking for a feel-good romance that would...