So, I’ve taken upon myself the reading of the seven-part Ramayana series by Ashok Banker, which has gathered considerable acclaim since the time the first book was published. I will be reading the series alternating each part with another novel to avoid fatigue. Not that Banker’s writing is tiresome; but there’s only so much...
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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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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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