Annie-Mal & A Girl Called Chris
I’m drawn to my memories of certain books that once possessed me. This one reminded me of a girl I once knew.
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The Writer On The Artist Spectrum
I think all artists need an audience. This is everyone from musicians to sculptors to painters. Everyone who has ever expressed an idea in tangible form or otherwise has needed an audience. To those who disagree – if they didn’t, then they’d just keep the idea in their own heads….
Guilt-Reading
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.
Debating On UTV Bloomberg Techtree – eBooks vs Real Books
I was featured on UTV Bloomberg defending ‘real books’ in the advent of Amazon Kindle and eBooks. My opponent was Shakti Salagaonkar.
Katy And I
My school had an interesting way of encouraging children to read. An annual Book Fair was held every year in a couple of the classrooms. After school-hours, parents coming to pick up their kids could buy those books. It was a much anticipated event for me and I’d go and…
Things It Never Occurred To Me To Wish For
I made a gameplan for my life at 17. Nothing went according to that plan. Most of all, I didn’t even think to wish for some of the bounty.
Too Many Questions And Not Enough Trust
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’ and watching the film based on it, made me reflect on trust – how each generation perceives it in their relationships.
Books | City | Pop Culture
A Landmark Love Story
The Landmark bookstore opens its doors on 23rd January 2009. Landmark has been shut these past three months after a fire broke out in Infinity Mall where it is housed, causing much damage to merchandise and fittings. Mercifully no human casualties except of course for avid Landmarkers who’ve missed the…
Chick Lit
Chick Lit is the new Romance Novel. And it isn’t. It’s empowering in a very strange way.
Kinsella Fever – Don’t Go Beyond Shopaholic!
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella My rating: 1 of 5 stars The premise of spilling your secrets to a total stranger and meeting them later is interesting. Unfortunately this book doesn’t exploit that idea to its full potential. Predictability may have been forgivable in this genre as…