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Kaalbela is an acclaimed and an award-winning Bengali novel by Samaresh... -
The gift of genius often accompanies the curse of aberrance (Van Gogh, Einstein... -
In Sebastian Barry’s 2008 Booker Shortlisted piece The Secret Scripture, Barry... -
Of all the slaves that the world has produced, there lived no such slave as the... -
For every one of us, there will come the day when we sit at life’s table only... -
To a mad world, caught in a turmoil of terror, anything written in an Islamic... -
The Reader by German judge and law professor Bernhard Schlink was published in... -
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic tale of murder, remorse and redemption set in the... -
India is in the throes of massive and multi-dimensional socio-economic change.... -
Warning: Spoilers Ahead! Love is rarely worthy of a chronicle if it is not...
Exigency - The state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action.
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The Bridge across Forever - Richard Bach
Wouldn’t we feel elated to know that all those dreamy knights and heavenly princesses, eternal lovers and magical soul mates were true and alive? That a life of love filled with adventure, pureness... -
The Killing Joke - Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
The Killing Joke is arguably the greatest Joker story ever told. It traces the history of Joker – how a simple-minded, innocent looking, God-fearing, struggling family man with a beautiful and loving... -
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep, along with books like Hammett’s Maltese Falcon, and Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, is considered a cornerstone where hard-boiled fiction is concerned. It is famous for its... -
The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
If you’re an Indian, there are few revelations in The White Tiger that come as a surprise to you – remnants of a feudal system, the corruption, the politics, the desperation of the poor, life in a... -
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The Little Prince is perhaps the most loved and most widely read book in the West after the Bible. The book has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies,... -
Senselessness - Horacio Castellanos Moya
The cover jacket of Horatio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness poses a question that every one of Moya’s readers ought to ask himself while reading the novella: is its narrator “among the hunted—or is... -
Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
It’s a daunting task to explain a personal book. How could one explain something that resembles a journal more than it does a typical piece of fiction? The biggest challenge lies in capturing every... -
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore could be called a retelling of the Oedipus myth, but not essentially so; Yes, there is an ominous father; Yes there is a troubled teenage boy, and, yes there is also... -
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Meet Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, who first met when Henry was 36 and Claire, 6. First dated when Henry was 28 and Claire 20, and got married when Henry was 30 and Claire,22. The Time Traveler's... -
The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity
The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, written by James M. Cain, an exponent in the hardboiled school of writing, were two of the great masterpieces in American literature, and sources... -
Nine Lives: in search of the sacred in modern India
India is in the throes of massive and multi-dimensional socio-economic change. That has already – in some circles at least – become cliché. Also, a lot of people are determined to call this change... -
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
Mystic River, the brilliant and award-winning contemporary crime fiction novel by Dennis Lehane, is the tale of three Boston buddies whose lives took divergent courses after one fateful day when they...