Ankur Palekar, a third year law student believes his life is quite sorted. Except that he does not want to become a lawyer, has a family history of lunacy and has actually fallen in love. Continue reading
The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
New York, 1939. Tom Bradshaw is arrested for first degree murder. He stands accused of killing his brother. When Sefton Jelks, a top Manhattan lawyer, offers his services for nothing, penniless Tom has little choice but to accept his assurance of a lighter sentence. Continue reading
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Life is what you make it by Preeti Shenoy
Life is what you make it is at its core a love story, set across India in the late eighties and early nineties. It is a story of love, hope and how determination can overcome even destiny. It will be out across all major book stores in February 2011. Continue reading
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Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
After successful releases of four books, Chetan Bhagat has come up with his new book called “Revolution 2020 : Love. Corruption. Ambition.”. Continue reading
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Live From London by Parinda Joshi
What happens when fate forklifts a fun and fearless 21-year old from a crazy college costume party and puts her straight onto the stage of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’? Utteh disasteh, as the Brits would say. Continue reading
The Popcorn Essayists by Jai Arjun Singh
This collection of essays by well-known Indian authors writing on films and the making of films weaves the magic of the world of cinema for the avid movie buff. “The Popcorn Essayists – What Movies do to Writers” is a lively collection of 13 articles and a must-read book for anyone with an interest in films. Continue reading
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Invisible Lines by Ruby Zaman
Zebunnessa Rahim was born in East Pakistan to a Bihari father and a Sylheti mother. She grows up in a sheltered world, sneaking behind her parents’ backs to meet her half-Scottish lover, gazing enviously at her friends dancing at parties in their tight outfits and enjoying summers eating mangoes at her politician grandfather’s villa. Continue reading
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Priya: In Incredible Indyaa by Namita Gokhale
India is shining, and Suresh Kaushal, the stout lawyer ‘of sober habits’, has propelled himself up the political ladder to become Minister of State for Food Processing, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Canneries. Continue reading
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River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. Continue reading
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Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga
Ask any Bombaywallah about Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport and being bordered by slums, it has been pucca for some fifty years. But then Bombay has changed in half a century – not least its name – and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city, a Mumbai of new development and new money; of wealthy Indians returning with fortunes made abroad. Continue reading
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