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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Author: Shehryar Fazli
Publisher: Westland, Price: Rs. 495/-, Pages: 387, PB, Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly
The novel's narrator, Shahbaz, is a young Pakistani from Paris who returns out of a 19-year exile to his home city in West Pakistan, to settle a family property dispute. He arrives in a 1970s Karachi preparing for democracy, seething with political mac...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Author: Gopal Gandhi Publisher: Westland, Price: Rs. 250/-, Pages: 204, PB, Fiction Book Review by Santanu Ganguly Gopal Gandhi's wonderfully moving and insightful tragedy elegantly and imaginatively revisits one of Indian history's great what-if moments, making us ask again how different things might have been if it was heterodox mystic Dara rather than the puri...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Author: Rajorshi Chakraborti
Publisher: Westland, Price: Rs. 200/-, Pages: 212, PB, Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly
Dev, a young British-Asian writer in London, is suddenly informed by his live-in girlfriend, Jo, that she's pregnant. His reaction is to take off for Munich, leaving a note for Jo on the telephone table. What he tells her is that he urgently needs ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Author: Nilakshi Borgohain
Publisher Niyogi Books
Price: Rs. 295/-, Pages: 222, HB, Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly
'A loosely hanging chipped fragment disintegrates from a huge rock as Pranjal knocks his feet against it. The broken piece rolls down the slope of the rock into the river.
"It will become an independent pebble in its new surroundings. And waltz in...
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Concept, introduction, translation & commentary: Nasreen Munni Kabir
Publisher: Niyogi Books, Price: Rs. 1250/-, pp. 292, PB Coffee Table Book, Non-Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly The Dialogue of Awaara, Raj Kapoor's Immortal Classic is a book for lovers of both cinema and language, featuring K.A. Abbas's original screenplay and dialogue, based on a story by...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Author: Shameem Akhtar
Publisher: Westland, Price: Rs. 295/-, Pages: 246, PB, Non-Fiction
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly
Yoga in the Workplace has been designed to create an effective work-out within the limiting constraints of a work-station. Although primarily developed for a workaholic who is committed to his or her cubicle, the book works just as well for a home-maker and th...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Vinod Chopra Films
Publisher: Om Book International
Price: Rs. 495/-, Pages: 352, PB
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly 3 Idiots: The Original Screenplay was launched at Landmark Bookstore, Palladium, Mumbai, by the cast and crew of 3 Idiots the film. Present at the event were Director Rajkumar Hirani, Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, actors Kareena Kapoor, Sharman Joshi, R Madha...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Author: Karen Karbo
Publisher: Om Book International
Price: Rs. 295/-, Pages: 232, PB
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly
"Anyone with a good sense of humour should hugely enjoy, or should I say enjoy, Karen Karbo's funny and stylish take on Coco Chanel. Like a little black dress, this handy life guide will take you from day into evening. K.K. on C.C.: oui, oui!" — Henr...
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Author: Kamala Das
Publisher: OM BOOKS INTERNATIONAL, Price: Rs. 195 /-, Pages: , PB,
Book Review by Santanu Ganguly "I feel a woman is most attractive when she surrenders to her man. She is incomplete without a man," averred Kamala Das shortly before her death in May, 2009. One of the most controversial and celebrated Indian authors, she combined in her writings rare honesty ...
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