“The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn’t think it was very good because I didn’t really feel different when it was over” says the lead character Charlie of the book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower written by Stephen Chbosky, after watching a movie. I personally think this …

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie is not a children rhyme book as the title of the book suggest, well this is what I thought when I first time heard the name of the book. Later I came to know that Agatha Christie likes to name her books after the …

In The Shadow Of Death is the first book in the Detective Agni Mitra series written by the author Sourabh Mukherjee. It is a murder mystery set in the City of Joy, Kolkata. Actually one of the reason I picked up this book is because Kolkata is my home town. …

After reading Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan I sincerely felt tempted to change it’s title to those spicy Thakur girls. All five or at least say three of them were much more advance than their age. I could be wrong but this was what I felt while reading. …

“Everyone has a story to tell”. Well I am not referring to Savi Sharma’s debut novel Everyone Has A Story but to the book One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern. Both the books were written on a similar theme but I found latter to be much more better than the …

Year 1996. Class VII Classroom scene Teacher: Ritu No Response Teacher: Ritu Mantri  No Response The neighbor elbows Ritu which brings her back in the classroom. Ritu: Present Ma’am Teacher is annoyed Teacher: Ritu, are you sleeping Ritu: No Ma’am Sorry Ma’am Teacher: Pay attention in the class. Well this is …

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is considered to be one of the finest contemporary fiction ever written. An Afghan born writer, Khaled Hosseini has written the most disturbing and devastating tale of relationships against the background of a shattering Afghanistan something with which we Indian could easily connect to. The …

Shilpa Shetty’s remarks about Animal Farm by George Orwell being a good book to teach children to care about animals sparked a controversy and Twitterati  brutally trolled the actor for her gaffe. It was due to this incident I came to know about book and after reading it I can’t help but …

Unaccustomed Earth is the collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. There are total eight stories among which five are distant and last three are inter-related. All the stories are about Bengali Indian migrated to America for a better life and opportunity.   The author explores various kind of relationship …

The author of 1000 Kilograms of Goa is back with yet another romantic novel Oh My Goddess with a tinge of humor and thrill in it. The blurb and the jacket suggest it to be a regular romantic novel, something Romeo Juliet type where hero tries every trick in his …