Book Reviews
As an ardent reader, I am always looking for ways to record my thoughts about the books I read and love. I am now a reviewer on Goodreads, and I write detailed reviews for every book I read.
Here you can find a select few of my book reviews.
by Manil Suri
The premise is ridiculously simple. Vishnu, an odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing on which he lives. With just this much, Suri creates a world so complex and a story so real, one has to truly commend his writing abilities.
by Lisa Ray
Lisa Ray describes what she felt on the day her family’s Honda Civic, with her parents and herself in it, met with an accident that would cause her mother to live the rest of her days as a quadriplegic. And this was the moment in her memoir when I knew that Lisa Ray understands the weight of words and she does not use them lightly.
by Agatha Christie
I think I read this book more for the nostalgia of it: the memories of my school library and my school librarian who knew me by name. (Yes, I spent all of my teenage years in a library.)
by Ruskin Bond
In school, I was told that Ruskin Bond is an Indian author. Today, I realise that the story is not that simple.
What is the politics of an Englishman writing about India? What does it mean that his depiction of India is a version I have myself seen and grown up in, a version I have admired and loved?
