Thursday, April 29, 2010

Dork: The Incredible Adventures Of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese – Sidin Vandukut

Dork: The Incredible Adventures Of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese – Sidin Vandukut

In April 2006 Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese, a stupendously naive but academically gifted young man (he was ranked 41st

in his class), graduates from one of India’s best business schools with a Day-Zero job at the Mumbai office of Dufresne Partners, a mediocre mid-market management consulting firm largely run by complete morons.

Varghese finds that he fits into the culture remarkably well. Or does he? Through a stunning series of blunders, mishaps and inadvertent errors, Robin begins to make his superiors rue the day they were driven by desperation into hiring him. With things going spectacularly wrong in his professional and personal life, will Robin manage to achieve his short-term goal of being promoted to Associate in under a year? Will love conquer all and will Gouri walk with him through Dadar Department Stores with her hand in the rear pocket of his jeans?

Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese is for all of those who’ve ever sat depressed in cubicles and wanted to kill themselves with office stationery. Especially that letter opener thing.

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The Leader Who Had No Title – Robin Sharma


The Leader Who Had No Title – Robin Sharma

For more than fifteen years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you, so that you can get to your absolute best while helping your organization break through to a dramatically new level of winning in these wildly uncertain times.

In “The Leader Who Had No Title, “you will learn:

- How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position

- A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change

- The real secrets of intense innovation

- An instant strategy to build a great team and become a “merchant of wow” with your customers

- Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field

- Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life

Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life–and the world around you–in the process.

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Heartbreaks & Dreams! The Girls @ IIT – Parul A. Mittal

Heartbreaks & Dreams! The Girls @ IIT – Parul A. Mittal

Uncomfortable around boys, the only girl in her department, can Tanu outshine or find true love in the sea of boys at IIT? Having cleared the exam that only the most intelligent do, Tanu reaches IIT Delhi merely to realize that she is an outlier in the system – a girl at IIT! She befriends Puja, Divya and Charu and thus begins a roller coaster ride through torturous exams, below average grades, biased lab assistants, nutty professors, envious seniors, hard to get boys, midnight trysts, fun fests, competitive sports, a suicide, a dominating grandfather and rigged elections! Be it asking questions in class or catching up on her beauty sleep, how does one go about it without being noticed by the boys or the professors? Inter-hostel competitions can be embarrassing especially when the boys purposely choose awkward topics and craft shameless clues.

How does one overcome these stumbling blocks keeping ones dignity intact? Chatting and innocuous jokes can be a torture if there are forty pairs of eyes glued to every action of yours. How does one make it feel normal and go about life at IIT?

When it comes to matters of the heart, and so many to choose from, how does one know who is Mr Right? ‘Heartbreaks & Dreams!’ is a delightful and funny attempt at depicting circumstantial challenges intrinsic to a college campus characterized by a skewed sex-ratio, cut-throat competition, grueling course work and a largely geek population. Seen through the eyes of a confident and intelligent yet simple, middle-class girl, the book journeys through the most vulnerable and youthful times of her stay at IIT

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Twilight In Delhi – Ahmed Ali


Twilight In Delhi – Ahmed Ali

Twilight in Delhi set in nineteenth century Delhi brings history alive, depicting most movingly the decay of an entire culture and way of life. The British are to be the rulers of the country and change is inevitable. Vivid and captivating, it is truly a masterpiece. In the words of Bonamy Dobree, ‘Mr. Ahmed makes us hear and smell Delhi . . . hear the flutter of pigeons’ wings, the cry of itinerant vendors, the calls to prayer, the howls of mourners, the chants of qawwals, smell jasmine and sewage, frying ghee and burning wood.

’ When it was first published in 1940, Twilight in Delhi was widely acclaimed by critics and hailed in India as a major literary event. It has since become a classic. It has been translated into Urdu, French, Portuguese, Spanish and German . ‘It is beautifully written and very moving . . . At the end, one has a poignant feeling that poetry and daily life have got parted, and will never come together again’ —E.M. Forster ‘The writing provides a curiously pictorial effect, yet is itself as clear as water. The end where innocence is drowned by experience is intensely moving’

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Better:-A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance

The struggle to perform well is universal,but in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision.

Atul Gawande,himself a surgeon points out, the real challenges before doctors today lay not in breakthrough technology but in the proper application of what they already have. This is not to say doctors are misapplying things. As the title implies, doctors (and all medical professionals) have room for improvement–for being better–at how they apply the tools they have.

Gawande brings us to one Cystic Fibrosis clinic in America and then another, so we can see how different approaches produce different results.Gawande divides the essays into three sections — “Diligence,” “Doing Right” and “Ingenuity” — based on the essential components “for success in medicine or in any endeavor that involves risk and responsibility.”Each essay focuses on a problem — the importance of hand-washing, health care delivery in India, the role of physicians in executions — that Gawande uses to anchor wide-ranging reflections.Gawande has the ability to deconstruct and explain the most difficult issues while preserving, even celebrating, their complexity. He applies a sly sense of humor to even the most unsettling topics.

For all the awesome tools at the disposal of doctors today, he writes, “it can be hard not to feel that one is just a white-coated cog in a machine — an extraordinarily successful machine, but a machine nonetheless. … So not surprisingly, in this work one begins to wonder: how do I really matter?

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The Mahabharata by R K Narayan

The Mahabharata is the world’s longest poem, eight times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.

The Mahabharata by R.K.Narayan is a authentic translation of Mahabharata as a poem to prose.His prose takes the same turn as the original story but with the taste of Narayan’s writing.In the Mahabharata the five Pandava brothers (Yudhistira, Arjuna, Bhima, Nakula, and Sahadeva) struggle to obtain their inheritance, culminating in the great battle of Kurukshetra.

The Mahabharata pervade south and southeast Asian religion, art, literature, and popular culture; they are a central part of the world’s literary heritage and should be better known in the West. To this end, Narayan’s versions could be used in schools and read by (or to) children, along with the stories of biblical and Greek mythology. To help those unfamiliar with the setting and context, he includes with each volume a brief introduction, a list of characters, and a glossary of Indian words.

Narayan’s style has made this book as beautiful and the age-old Mahabharata.

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Bandit Queen by Shekhar Kapur

She was the most feared outlaw in India. If the story wasn’t true you wouldn’t believe it...”
Bandit Queen is story of underbelly Indian girl outlaw and bandit in Uttar Pradesh.The movie is inspired on the life of real dacoit Phoolan Devi.The language, the stark treatment which were unknown to Indian audience in 90s,produce a turbulence all around India when it was first released.

The film opens with Phoolan’s marriage to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal,when she was around eleven year old.Puttilal is physically and sexually abusive, and Phoolan eventually runs away and returns home. As Phoolan grows older, she faces incidents of fondling and groping from the Thakur men . At the next town meeting, the panchayat decides to banish Phoolan from the village.

Than the movie follows revenge from Phoolan but in between movie touch every nook and corner of rural India and caste system which forces Phoolan to take power in her hand and become a bandit.As in technical terms film was great in every aspect,cinematography was brilliant and so this the background score.

This movie can be considered one of the best movie based on reality,not following the exact sequence but it gives the heart to a bandit story.

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Fasting Feasting by Anita Desai

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose! The more things change the more they remain the same



Neither in excess, nor in deprivation or denial, is there happiness or peace of mind.That’s how you will feel after this book,in one half of book,the story revolves around an Indian family where denial and deprivation are two ornament.And in the later half of book ruth-less life in urban US.

A partly successful, proud father, who goes through life, with set patterns and no passion. A mother who goes along with her husband, doing what is supposedly right and expected of her, curbing and killing all her innate desires. Three children. The eldest, Uma, clumsy and “Forrest Gumpish”. The middle daughter Aruna, pretty, ambitious and smart, but eventually also a victim of her choices. The last, a son, Arun, on whom the parents put all their dreams and energies. All of them along with members of their extended family go through some form of deprivation – of will, of fun, of passion and of love.

The second half deals with Arun, who finds his way to the US, on a scholarship, having being forced by his father to “mug” his way through school and college. There, he finds solitude to be his best friend. Quirkily, even this desire to be alone, does not get fulfilled to the extent he wants. Unlike life in India, in the US he finds a world of excesses – of food, of body and of non-interference, both parental and otherwise. Through his eyes we see the Patton family – a “barbecuing”, disappointed father, a nervous, uncertain, wannabe vegetarian mother, a body-obsessed, jock son and a bulimic, neurotic daughter. All of them go through some form of corruption – of will, of fun, of passion and of love.

The book has a dry taste of trouble all around it,but worth to give a glimpse of life of denial and excess.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Connect The Dots – Rashmi Bansal

Connect The Dots – Rashmi Bansal

As Gurcharan das points out in India Unbound, Indian entrepreneurs and businesses haven’t got the right kind of press they deserved for a very long time in our own country. Rashmi Bansal’s latest work, “Connect the dots” and her earlier “Stay Hungry…” hold a candle to the Indian entrepreneurial community and its zeal and spirit in a very commendable manner by highlighting a wide gamut of startups.

‘CONNECT THE DOTS’ is a sequel to ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’ and is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without an MBA, who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves. To lead interesting, passionate, meaningful lives.

Some of the entrepreneurs featured in the book are:

  • Kunwer Sachdev, Founder, Su-kam
  • R. Sriram, Founder, Crossword Bookstore
  • Ganesh Ram, Founder, Veta (Vivekananda English Training Academy)
  • Satyajit Singh, Founder, Shakti Sudha Industries

Their stories say one thing loud and clear. You don’t need a fancy degree or a rich daddy to dream big and make it happen. It’s all in your head, your heart, your hands.

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Songs of Blood and Sword – Fatima Bhutto

Songs of Blood and Sword – Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto was born in Afghanistan in 1982. She studied at Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She currently writes columns for The Daily Beast, New Statesman and other publications. She lives in Karachi, Pakistan.

In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father, Murtaza, was murdered along with six of his associates.

In December 2007 Benazir Bhutto, Fatima’s aunt, and the woman she had publicly accused of ordering her father’s murder, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world’s best known political dynasties.

Songs of Blood and Sword tells the story of the Bhuttos, a family of rich feudal landlords who became powerbrokers in the newly created state of Pakistan; the epic tale of four generations of a family and the political violence that would destroy them. It is the history of a family and nation riven by murder, corruption, conspiracy and division, written by one who has lived it, in the heart of the storm.

The history of this extraordinary family mirrors the tumultuous events of Pakistan itself, and the quest to find the truth behind her father’s murder has led Fatima to the heart of her country’s volatile political establishment.

Finally Songs of Blood and Sword is about a daughter’s love for her father and her search to uncover, and to understand, the truth of his life and death.


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Following Fish: Travels Around The Indian Coast – Samanth Subramanian


Following Fish: Travels Around The Indian Coast – Samanth Subramanian

In a coastline as long and diverse as India’s, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds—food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edge of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian reports upon a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories.

In nine essays, Following Fish conducts rich journalistic investigations: among others, of the famed fish treatment for asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal’s prized hilsa; of the ancient art of building fishing boats in Gujarat; of the fiery cuisine and the singular spirit of Kerala’s toddy shops; of the food and the lives of Mumbai’s first peoples; of the history of an old Catholic fishing community in Tamil Nadu; of the hunt for the world’s fastest fish near Goa.

Throughout his travels, Subramanian observes the cosmopolitanism and diverse influences absorbed by India’s coastal cities, the wthdrawing of traditional fishermen from their craft, the corresponding growth of fishing as pure and voluminous commerce, and the degradation of waters and beaches from over-fishing.

Pulsating with pleasure, adventure and discovery, and tempered by nostalgia and loss, Following Fish speaks as eloquently to the armchair traveller as to lovers of the sea and its lore.

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India 2020: A Vision For The New Millennium – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

India 2020: A Vision For The New Millennium – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our most distinguished scientist, and close associate Y.S. Rajan examine India’s strengths—and weaknesses—to offer a vision of how India can be among the world’s first five economic powers in the year 2020.

They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not an unrealistic one. Past successes, too, bear them out. For example, we were able to launch the green revolution at a time when experts had all but given up on India ever becoming self-sufficient in food. Similarly, in the field of space technology we started from scratch to have today a system of satellite-based communication linking remote regions of the country.

The same sense of purpose can lead us to success in many other areas crucial to achieving the goal of a prosperous, strong nation, assert Kalam and Rajan. ‘[India 2020] is a book of dreams rooted in reality.’ —The Indian Express ‘Kalam seeks to inspire the nation to think big and pursue ambitious plans.’ —The Pioneer ‘[India 2020] combines the ideas of a visionary, the expertise of a great planner and the considered recommendations of some of the best technology experts in India. That is a formidable combination indeed.’ —Business World ‘This is no ordinary book . . . it should be in all libraries and on the desk of everyone who dreams about the future of India.’

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Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish – Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal is a classic and a very inspirational book. Book contains success story of 25 IIMA graduates written wonderfully. The book is well written in short, simple and crisp English. It doesn’t require one to be a Management guru to understand the context.

It includes some big names like Sanjeev Bikhchandani (PGP ‘89), naukri.com In 2006, his big idea, naukri.com became the first dotcom to IPO on an Indian stock exchange. Shantanu Prakash (PGP ‘88), Educomp. His company Educomp is today the leading provider of digital content for schools across India.Vinayak Chatterjee (PGP ‘81), Feedback Ventures Vinayak quit his job at Pond’s to start Feedback Ventures which morphed into India’s leading infrastructure advisory and engineering firm.

Ashank Desai (PGP ‘79), Mastek ,R Subramanian (PGP ‘89), Subhiksha He quit his job at Citibank 15 days after joining, to start India’s largest grocery chain – Subhiksha. Subramanian famously rebuffed offers from Reliance Retail as he believes the best is ‘yet to come’.Narendra Murkumbi (PGP ‘94), Shree Renuka Sugars. He shut down the first company he started after graduating because a Rs 5 crore turnover was not ‘large enough’. His second venture Shree Renuka Sugars is today a Rs 1000 crore company, and has changed the lives of hundreds of sugarcane farmers.Chender Baljee (PGP ‘72), Royal Orchid Hotels His family owns Baljee’s, Simla’s most famous hotel. Yet as a young management graduate, Chender decided to carve out his own niche………………

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One Afternoon – Roma Bansal


One Afternoon – Roma Bansal

If you’re looking for a real masala, fun novel this is the one !!

Fiery, naive, unconventional, silly – Ria Rathore is one eighteen-year-old who has strutted through her well-heeled life brimming with confidence. In a conservative city like Ahmedabad she often ran the risk of being branded ‘improper’. With a father who spoils her silly, Ria always got what she wanted until she comes across Radha Chatterjee, her English professor at Spencer College. One Afternoon is a poignant bildungsroman of a bratty teenager’s journey to womanhood.

Roma Bansal majored in psychology and has been freelancing with the Times of India for the past three years. She is a former all India national champion in speed skating and enjoys sports of any kind.

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The Homecoming – Shashi Warrier


The Homecoming – Shashi Warrier

‘I wonder how the fabric of my life came apart so quickly. It was a rich fabric, something I’d taken great pains and over three decades to weave. We might each recover individually, but the richness of the fabric is gone.’

Javed Sharif returns home to Srinagar for his father’s eighty-fourth birthday. He returns with a sense of well-being, despite troubles, the violence and the bitterly cold weather. Unexpectedly, his dreams of retiring and settling in Kashmir again are shattered by a knock on the door on the day of the birthday party and, as he watches his life unravel, his world will never be the same again.

The Homecoming is the story of one family, but also of the many families in Kashmir whose lives have been destroyed by decades of violence and uncertainty. Deeply moving and disturbingly honest, this is a haunting tale that is political yet profoundly personal, and tells of the pain and suffering that is a result of the cruelty—and ultimately the indifference—of the state.

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The Orphan Diaries – Shashi Warrier

The Orphan Diaries – Shashi Warrier

‘Among the thousands of orphaned children adopted after ’47 there are a few¬—less than twenty—who were planted here by Jinnah’s men . . .’

At thirty-eight, feeling ancient and used up, Colonel Rajan Menon—Raja—knows his best years as a commando are behind him. But he is soon tested as never before. The Prime Minister’s granddaughter has been abducted, and the kidnappers want some sensitive diaries in the possession of the CBI, the contents of which, if made public, can throw the country into turmoil. Raja works out a meticulous rescue plan, but the raid ends in a disaster—the girl is killed, not a single kidnapper is captured and the diaries disappear. And all the evidence points to Raja’s complicity.

Hounded by the police and, inexplicably, a ruthless psychopath, Raja is on the run, determined to clear his name. As he makes his harrowing journey towards the truth, a sinister plot unfolds an astounding account that began in 1947 . . .

In The Orphan Diaries—first published as The Orphan in 1998—Shashi Warrier, India’s most exciting thriller writer, has produced an astonishing sequel to Night of the Krait.

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Night Of The Krait – Shashi Warrier

Night Of The Krait – Shashi Warrier

Terrorists from the Free Kashmir Front hijack a coach on the Shatabdi Express with forty people, just outside Madras. A nephew of the defence minister is among the passengers. Within the first five minutes they have killed a railway guard and caused the authorities to panic. The Special Operations Force, a team of crack commandos from the Army, is called in to deal with the crisis.

Heading the operation is Lieutenant Colonel Rajan Menon—Raja—who is soon convinced that these are not ordinary terrorists. They have the backing of a highly intelligent but crooked head. He dubs the ruthless genius the Krait. Raja leads his men in a brilliant rescue operation in Madras, but he knows this is only the opening gambit in a sinister plan devised by the terrorist mastermind; the Krait will strike again. And he realizes with dismay that the enemy might be one of them . . .

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Hangman’s Journal – Shashi Warrier


Hangman’s Journal – Shashi Warrier

They say that the hangman’s job is an art.Positioning the knot under the prisoner’s ear is the most important part of the job;get it exactly right and there’s not a quiver from the rope except for that little jerk at the drop,when his neck breaks.A few millimetres off, and the man’s neck does not break;he dies of strangulation,slowly painfully. Written with rare power and unflinching directness,this is a compelling,often unsettling account of a life of great psychological and moral complexity.

The real life story of the Hangman working for the king of Travancore,a small pre-independence South Indian kingdom unfolds in full detail.Each time he returned from the gallows,he told himself that it would be the last time.But he went back,a hundred and seventeen times.He did what he was ordered to do and shut out difficult memories,till an encounter with a writer almost a quarter century after his last hanging forced him to confront his past.

This Book takes us into the mind of a Man struggling to come to terms with his Dharma,his conscience,and his shame. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Between the Assassinations by Arvind Adiga

Arvind Adiga is a writer of strong characterization,Between the Assassinations again proves his story is worth to read for the characterization.

The stories are set in the Eighties between the assassinations of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, and are framed by extracts from an imagined guidebook to Kittur, a city on India’s south-western coast, set between Goa and Calicut.The week in question takes place apparently in 1990, six years after the killing of Indira Gandhi, one year before the assassination of her son.

This lightness characterises much of the life in Kittur, the citizens, particularly the dispossessed, may see their lives in tragic terms, but Adiga’s sense of a great Indian comedy is never far away. His limber structure allows him to shift in tone from a devastating account of a pair of children sent out on to the streets to beg to service the crack habit of their father, who will do anything to escape the misery of labour on a construction site, to a Just William kind of tale about a class of pupils sent to view an educational film at a porn cinema, Angel Talkies.

Between the Assassinations is a collection of linked short stories, not a novel, but it is a page-turner none the less.

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Kaminey by Vishal Bhardwaj

Thif monfoon. Difcover your mean fide.

Story of two brothers is as familiar to Bollywood as Khumb Ka Mela,but this movie is different same old family drama because of ’simple twist of fate’.Story of Sanjay ‘Guddu’ Kumar Sharma and Charlie,both started life in Mumbai Slum but changed their ways.One lisps, the other stammers. One is an honest, diligent social worker while the other hedges bets at a racecourse. The brothers want nothing to do with each other.

But when Charlie gets mixed up in a deadly get-rich-quick scheme and Guddu realizes that the love of his life has unwittingly put a price on his head, their lives begin to collide. They find themselves facing rogue politicians, drug dealers and crooked cops. As they uncover a sinister plot laid out by the ‘political-police-underworld‘ nexus, their stories finally converge to a point when they realize they only have each other.

Priyanak Chopra(Sweety) is Guddu’s girlfriend and her brother Sunil Bhope is a right-wing-Marathi politician,When Bhope got to know about the relationship between them,he tried to murder Guddu.That’s how story starts taking turn after turn,and become a crossroad for Guddu and Charlie.

The performance by Shahid Kapur is one of the best performance of the year,Vishal always able to pull best out of his actor,same thing is applied on Priyanka Chopra.The music is composed by Vishal and lyrics by Gulzaar.So if you want to collect this awesome movie just check out it.


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Monday, April 26, 2010

Dead on Time by Lord Meghnad Desai

I wrote the book for the fun of it. I have failed in everything and so I wanted to fail as a thriller novelist,”-Lord Meghnad Desai

The book, Dead on Time is first fiction novel about British politics, it takes of many real life characters, spins a racy whodunit around Harry White, Britain’s charismatic and politically-savvy Prime Minister. British Prime Minister obeying orders from Uncle Sam, trying to solve the Middle East peace crisis while being charismatic and politically savvy. He also falls for his diary secretary, Sarah, has to prevent a bloodbath between the Protestants and the Catholics and deal with the political moves of megalomaniacal media baron Matt Drummond. And the success of these endeavours depends upon a football match which he cannot avoid at any cost. Even if it means cancelling a lunch meeting with the powerful Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the English church.

So it’s a political drama more based on football,a good read for those who are more interested in British politics.

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The Last Jet-Engine Laugh – Ruchir Joshi

The Last Jet-Engine Laugh – Ruchir Joshi

Ruchir Joshi’s debut The Last Jet-Engine Laugh is buoyed by the belief that everything matters, that every ephemeral peak, deepening drop, every drive, every breakfast, every touch, sound and word slowly forming, extends to the heart of some fundamental genetic momentum.

Paresh is the glue of the story, son of two former non-violent revolutionaries who met on a demonstration in Ahmedabad. Detached from the urgency that fuelled his parents’ convictions, he adopts a passive stance toward the events of his life, becomes an observer. His daughter, Para, in turn exposed to Paresh’s haphazard experience, his lack of urgency, takes firm root in combat flying. Reaction and adaptation, circumstance and principle: through the characters’ instalment in the present–1970-2000-2030–and through the evolution of one family, the future of India and Indians is skilfully conjured. In a matter of decades, India has become a militaristic power from its ascetic, caste-structured past and Para, only one generation removed from Thoreauvian pacifists, has become a war hero. The wonder of Joshi’s narrative is not the fantastic leaps he takes but that he makes them so convincingly.

Ruchir Joshi is relaxed and sincere, often ironic and very funny. Those readers wary of the vigorous Indian literary invasion, those tired of Salman Rushdie’s apocalyptic seriousness or still angry at Tagore for The Home and the World, will find here a strong clear voice.

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Keep off the Grass by Karan Bajaj

In his first novel if you choose the theme to roam India and to search soul of Indian culture with funny one liners,you will be hit.That’s the same case with Karan Bajaj.

It’s a stroy of Yale educated twenty five year old investment banker Samrat Ratan. Born in USA, to immigrant Indian parents, he would havebecome a millionaire by the age of thirty with his excellent job. Instead, he quit the job and enrolled in India, IIM Bangalore. He was tired of investment banking job. He had experienced all the good and bad parts of American culture and still had not the feeling of living a real life. Instead he thought by joining Indian business school, he can better understand his roots that will help him to accept his present.

His journey started in IIM Bangalore. He spent most of his time with marijuana, friends and he had to go to a prison, also for disobeying traffic rules, while his grades and self confidence dropped. At one point of time, he started rethinking about his decision to join the business school in India leaving a fantastic job that would have given him material pleasure.

He got the opportunity to go to Himalayas with his friend and did mediation which made him mentally very happy and gave him a lot of energy. For the summer internship, he got the chance to sell soap to the villagers in Benares for a company called Srushti Chemicals.That’s the turning point for his life and career.

The whole novel is really funny and one liners are really keep the adventure running.It’s a read at one night novel and Karan is able to create magic of words with his very first novel.

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The Death of Vishnu – Manil Suri


The Death of Vishnu – Manil Suri

Not wanting to arouse Vishnu, in case he hadn’t died yet, Mrs. Ashrani tiptoed down to the third step above the landing on which he lived, teakettle in hand.

So begins Manil Suri’s The Death of Vishnu, a comically trenchant depiction of the inhabitants of a slum building in Bombay. This is a world of small things, of truculent housewives engaged in a war of mutual suspicion, of selfishness and ignorance and of the poverty of existence, both spiritual and material. With dexterity and acuity, Suri plunges the reader into the bounded world that his characters inhabit, with each story existing as a separate unit, occasionally interacting with another, reflecting the invidiously withdrawn way they share the house.

The inhabitants include dreamer Mr Jalal and his frustrated wife; Mrs Ashrani and her political intrigues; teenagers Kavrita and Sumil’s sexual attraction and elopement: and Vinod’s solitary existence, mourning the loss of his one love. Existing in displacement, outside these residents’ lives, is the eponymous Vishnu, who, as the novel opens, lies dying on the landing of the stairs. He has lived there for many years, earning his leftover stale chapattis, tea and place to sleep through running errands (badly). The residents argue over who is responsible for calling an ambulance, for saving his life, and manoeuvre to absolve themselves from responsibility. As Vishnu slides closer to death, the reader travel’s with him along the road to death, and the actions and thoughts of those who live in the house are revealed to Vishnu and the reader with a god-like omniscience. As his spirit journeys further and further away from his body, Vishnu begins to believe he is transcending to godhead. Fellow resident Mr Jalal believes so too; an implacable searcher for a meaning, a reason for life, he believes that he has finally found truth when he dreams of Vishnu’s transformation. His despairing wife, however, tries with increasing desperation to hide her husband’s apparent slide into madness from the neighbours.

Gradually, the intensity and heat of their emotions becomes magnified and the turmoil and conflict within the house heats up and boils over, turning stifled neighbourly relations into outright aggression, intolerance and abuse. Suri keeps this remarkable novel moving with alacrity, conveying the smallness of their lives through his often hilarious characterisations, which illuminate the absurdities of human nature divided by prejudice, moral hypocrisy and greed.

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Quarantine by Rahul Metha

The most notable thing about this book is,it never exaggerated the sexual content in gay relationships but it go through the real life and emotions surrounding around gay men.

It’s a collection of short stories by Rahul Metha set in Indian society and main characters are gay men.A total nine stories are present in the book.In first one Quarantine we see Bapuji, a typical grandfather who cribs about his daughter-in-law Asha’s cooking and is unable to come to terms with his grandson being gay.The characterization is strong and good picture of family.

In “Yours” we meet the unknown narrator who is trying to come to terms with his boyfriend Don’s liaison with an older African-American Man and the feelings he harbours for him at the same time.While another story is about lovers who end up going to a night club with the agenda of cheating on each other.

Ten Thousand Years,we read about a couple whose relationship is on the rocks because one of the partners, Thomas, has been unfaithful.In every story there are family members and peers,how they are coping up with the reality.there are best friends who feel left out and alone and then there are relatives who with a simple smile and a shoulder to cry on make life seem simpler and easier to live.

A recommended book because it’s not a another queer novel but it’s a book with real problems and characters.It will generate some thinking within.

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain – Vikram Chandra


Red Earth and Pouring Rain – Vikram Chandra

A tale of 19th-century India: of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone “mad with poetry”. Woven into this tapestry of stories is a second, modern narrative – the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends.

This massive, complex, multi-facetted book can be read in many ways: as a contemporary attempt to recapture the epic complexities of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana; as a diatribe against the evils of colonialism (both the nineteenth-century British version and its new American counterpart); as an attack on the emptiness of modern capitalist consumerism… No doubt all true in their way, but for me the most astute comment on the book comes from Adam Thorpe (a man who knows a thing or two about storytelling himself): “telling a story – hundreds of them – becomes its own life-preserving act”.

And what a story it is. Indian student Abhay, recently returned from the U.S.A., shoots a monkey which is stealing food. The badly wounded creature, rescued by his horrified relatives, announces that it contains the soul of the poet Sanjay: when Yama, God of the Dead, turns up (rapidly followed by several other minor cabinet ministers of the Hindu pantheon), Sanjay negotiates a stay of execution in exchange for his life story. (The obvious parallel here is with Sheherazade in “The Thousand and One Nights”, and certainly Chandra’s novel is very much “about” the power of narrative.) Sanjay tells us a tale that has it all: he has lived through most of the period of British colonialism, and spares us none of its horrors and injustices; but his tale also has love interest; epic battle scenes; a strong dash of magical realism, or even magical surrealism (twins are born miraculously after the consumption of sticky buns; Sanjay becomes a creature of the Undead to pursue fellow immortal Jack the Ripper through the streets of Victorian London); and perhaps most remarkably, recurrent scenes of emotional desolation on an epic scale (it’s a difficult mood to describe, but no-one does it as well as Chandra: the same mood recurs in his collection of linked novellas, “Love and Longing in Bombay”). Intercut with Sanjay’s tale, and drawing ironic parallels between British and American imperialism, is Abhay’s own narrative of his experiences as a student in America: this has its own scenes of epic emotional desolation.

A strange, beautiful and unique book; and the best story (indeed, hundreds of them) I’ve read for a long time.

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Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra


Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra

This truly is an epic. At first sight, I thought Vikram Chandra was just trying to match his namesake (the more famous Vikram Seth, author of other ‘epics’ like A Suitable Boy) by writing a long novel (it is long at 900 pages!). But as I started reading it, I realised that this was not just long, but wide and deep.

The author’s breadth is dizzying – the story goes from the murky world of the Mumbai mafia-style underworld, to international terrorism, to the workings of the Indian bureaucracy, to the intelligence services investigating Islamic fundamentalism, to the traumas of the Partition of the Indian sub-continent 60 years ago, to the sidelines of the inside workings of Bollywood….

But, it is not just the breadth of the canvas that is breath-taking. This is not a superficial skimming of several sub-plots. It is the depth with which Vikram has researched each of these sub-plots and gone into not just describing the superficial external happenings there, but the intricate workings inside the minds of the people involved. He has gone right into the depths of the mind of a Mumbai don, a Mumbai policeman, an intelligence officer, a family uprooted at Partition….

It is hard to imagine that a 900-page book could be unputdownable – but this one was for me. I lost touch with the outside world for a week while I read this for several hours everyday.

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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian – Nirad C. Chaudhuri


The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Nirad C. Chaudhuri

This is one of the most extraordinary and important books to come out of India this century: as Doris Lessing says: “Reading this book is to be immersed in India, you feel you are living that life, such is the power of this acute stubbornly honest, capaciously minded writer to recreate his times.

He is a product of the period when Indians were nourished by English literature, law, thought. The contrast between the vivid details of village and family life and the slow growth towardsthe grandeur of his moral and literary vision provides the tension of these vivid pages.

It Evokes the first 24 years of the author’s life in Calcutta and in his ancestral village in East Bengal. The book combines memoirs with a sweeping survey of Indian history and culture in the last years of the Raj.

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