I finished reading Peter Bergen’s Manhunt: From 9/11 to Abottabad – The Ten Year Search For Osama Bin Laden a couple of days ago, and although the book said so much to me, I find there is not much I have to say about it. These current affairs/general knowledge-y books are quite wasted on...
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The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon A fantastic read if a reader is interested in understanding the effects of Colonialism. The word “Profound” can be used aptly to underline the impact this book has on the reader. It’s amazing to see the level of dissection Frantz Fanon has achieved with respect to...
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Because I’ve read a fair number of works on historical fiction recently, the genre no longer amazes me. However, my respect for authors who create such works continues to accrue, and a secret ambition of authoring such a book one day builds steadily. I was first acquainted with historical fiction with Devdutt Pattnaik’s ‘The...
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I’m not a big fan of politics and religion. It’s worse if they’re both spoken of in the same breath. Sadly, my father is the opposite; it led him to buy a collection of stories of 1947 titled ‘Memories of Madness’. Three authors take us through the turmoil, human filth of character and helplessness...
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Commenting on this book would be a minor crime, for there are perhaps few equals to Iravati Karve’s Yuganta – The end of an epoch. Commentaries and commentaries have been written about the ‘Mahabharat’, and continue to be written today, such is the mystery and vastness of that epic. But few have dared autopsied...
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Frankly, the only time I’d heard of Max Müller before I bought this book was with reference to one Max Müller Bhavan in Pune where German is supposedly taught. All I knew was that he was some hotshot Western thinker and that I ought to read him sometime. (Yes, scoff all you want. So...
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I don’t know about you but I don’t like Shashi Tharoor. Blame it on shady alliances for IPL teams or the very non-intellectual head of hair that he wears – I’ve pretty much placed him in a category of authors who aren’t …well…authors. Then I read the Great Indian Novel. It’s an unassuming book...
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