Book Reviews

- Bhavana Kothari ‘Netra’“Ek bheedh ko ikkattha dekh, Itihaas apne-hi panney padhkar hanf gaya.”Ever since I read ‘Tarkash’ I’ve been craving more and more poetry that speaks to my soul. It is when I came across this book, a bunch of poetries penned with time....

- Mary Shelley“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”Frankenstein is a classic by...

-Pankaj KapurSo to summarize this one, it is the story we’ve heard at least once in our lives about the girl next door. Well, not next door exactly but in the same colony, a relative or someone in vicinity. Well, not exactly a girl either, a 65 years old woman or man...

-Rana DasguptaThe first book I’ve read that holds the power to get banned. Once it reaches people who are sure to get triggered once mirrored, as Oscar Wilde said “The books that world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”Capital not by Karl...

-Arundhati Roy“In the process of its telling of the past, literature can also mould the future.”This book is a collection of Arundhati’s essays majorly from 2018-2020. The book knocked me out of my senses, shook my senses, sent shivers down me, making me tremble. All...

-Bell Hooks“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling- it is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go.”Books like ‘The seven...

-Fredrik BackmanA man Called Ove is a lovely book by Fredrik backman ; Ove was the one man with most vivid characteristics in his personality yet one single grumpy expression on his face. This book is full of flashbacks that allow you to understand why Ove was what he...

-Megha MajumdarA Burning train, a burning passion, a few burning desires, burning of some principles, ideologies and a burning country. “I feel like a straw doll, dressed up for play, at the mercy of callous children who decide my fate.” Ok, you might’ve bought this...