On my recent trip to Rajasthan, while seeing all the forts and palaces, I couldn’t help imagining what kind of lavish life the women in the royal harem (zanana) would have been living. Opulent clothes, glittering jewels, maids and chaperones to cater to their every need. And yet, it was nothing more than a gilded […]
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Book Review – Ajaya: Role Of The Dice by Anand Neelakantan
History is but a retelling of events by the victor; it is never an impartial narrative by a neutral third person. Hence, the victor is the good guy and the vanquished, the bad guy. But what we readers forget is that nothing is only good or only bad…there is no black and white…only shades of […]
Book Review: Winter Of The World -Ken Follett
Winter Of The World is the second book in the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett, one of my favourite authors. The first book in this trilogy, Fall of Giants, spoke of five interlinked families and their destinies through the […]
Book Review: Those Pricey Thakur Girls – Anuja Chauhan
After reading her first book, The Zoya Factor, I fell in love with Anuja Chauhan’s style of writing and her heroine who is just another girl like you or me. Then came the Battle for Bittora which was equally entertaining. So obviously, when I saw her latest offering at the bookstore, I immediately bought it. […]
Book Review: The Seeds of War – Ashok K. Banker
Synopsis: The Seeds of War, book Two in Ashok Banker’s “MBA” series, introduces us to the elder protagonists of the epic, as well as some of the great loves and lusts, friendships and enmities, politics and self sacrifice that will lay the seeds that will eventually fester into the mother of all wars. At first, […]