The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Book Review
The Forest of Enchantments is essentially a love story from Sita’s perspective. You are treated to a fabulous piece of writing with some excellent food for thought.
Book Reviews
Nobody’s Child by Kanchana Banerjee Book Review
Money, power, fame, morally corrupt characters, and unscrupulous media. All that with a crisp, tight plot, and you have a winner.
Laundry Girl 2.0 by Yamini Pustake Bhalerao Book Review
Laundry Girl 2.0 by Yamini Pustake Bhalerao is a fast-paced noir thriller, whose protagonist is a fixer, private investigator, hustler, ex-convict, and a street fighter.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata Book Review
The normal world has no room for exceptions. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is a compelling read about the struggles of a socially awkward individual to conform to the rules of the society.
Girl From The Tree House by Gudrun Frerichs Book Review
Girl From The Tree House by Gudrun Frerichs is a psychological thriller that tells the story from the inside out. I have not read such a brilliant fictionalized depiction of dissociative identity disorder.
Narasimha (The Mahaavatar Trilogy #1) by Kevin Missal Book Review
Narasimha by Kevin Missal, the first book in the Mahaavatar Trilogy picks on the topic of dharma and adharma. A retelling of the fourth Vishnu avatar, it is centered around the story of Narasimha, Hiranyakashyap, and Prahlad.
Beast by Krishna Udayasankar Book Review
Beast is one of my favorite Indian fantasy fictions in recent years and features in my favorites books of the year. An urban fantasy, the author Krishna Udayasankar has created a crisp, fast-paced thriller that has you turning the pages.
Before you Breathe by Tanushree Podder Book Review
Agatha Christie meets Ruskin Bond in Before you Breathe by Tanushee Podder. Set in a quiet hill town of Ramsar, the book follows an amateur sleuth and a cop solving series of incidents and a murder.
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal Book Review
“There’s no greater show of love and faith than traveling a long distance for somebody.” The book follows the story of three sisters – Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirina who have been asked to undertake a pilgrimage on behalf of their mother.
My Land across the Border by Sayan Bhattacharya Book Review
It was the title “My Land across the Border” that piqued my interest. A term often used by my grandfather as he reminisced about pre-partition India. Both my parents’ families were displaced by the partition.