Posted in Me, books, tagged 2 states - the story of my marriage, chetan bhagat on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Answer is simple!!
When you can’t go to watch movies, you read their screenplays in advance!!
And that is exactly what I did. Reading Chetan Bhagat’s books gives you the same feeling over and over again…. you have already seen similar stuff in movies OR you are soon going to watch it in some new movie…
Also, [...]
Posted in Me, books, women, tagged Saratchandra on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love Saratchandra’s writings. They are real and yet seem to be set up in an entirely different world than the one we live in. And that is what makes them so special and enjoyable, despite the pathos depicted. And there is something about the women he depicts. They are so similar to each other [...]
Posted in Bangla, books, tagged Arranged marriage, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on July 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
This book is a collection of short stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, where each story deals with perhaps the most important event of our lives – marriage. Written entirely from a woman’s perspective, each and every story can be related to. Though the setting is predominantly that of the girl settling abroad after marriage, yet [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged A River Sutra, Gita Mehta on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A River Sutra is a collection of short stories so tightly connected to each other that you can’t wait to leave one before hopping on to the next one. All the stories revolve around one man and his trysts with people as he continues to live in a Government Rest House near the river Narmanda. [...]
Posted in Me, books on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Manil Suri paints his story like a collage. I guess that is the way he builds up different characters, each being unique in its own way. Like his previous book (that I read), this one too doesn’t really take the story to any conclusion, rather prefers to keep the threads loose, thus leaving the reader [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged looking through glass, mukul kesavan on May 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Of late I have started getting impatient with the book if it doesn’t offer any reason to go beyond the first few pages. Earlier, I used to read the entire book, no matter how frequent the dull phases were. But I just could not finish this one….
And though I enjoy reading books with historical settings, [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged moving on, shashi deshpande, The Binding Vine on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How does one cope up with the loss of a child? Or with any other loss for that matter? Does tragedy put an end to life? No, it doesn’t. Life goes on. Not as if nothing had happened. But yet it goes on. One doesn’t stop assimilating experiences and feelings that come on the way. [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged from the solan diary, Manil suri, the age of shiva on April 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A woman who takes one decision in her life based on jealousy/infatuation/emotions gets entangled in a never ending saga of hopelessness and pain. To escape tyranny of one man, she embraces destructiveness in another. And the child to whom she dedicates her entire life gets detached or rather is made to get detached from [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged don't lose your mind. lose your weight, Rujuta Diwekar on February 28, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I am not a diet-person. I can’t skip meals. And I find it difficult to imagine people willing to sacrifice this basic requirement of life just to look and feel good (which, by the way is not guaranteed). I had put on around 7-8 kgs during my pregnancy, and have now lost all of it. [...]
Posted in Me, books, tagged The white tiger, arvind adiga, bookers prize 2008 on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This Booker Prize winner (2008) is an interesting read which tells the tale of social injustice in its own unique way. Though it is difficult to relate to the main character in the beginning, yet as the story progresses, you start feeling his pain and desperation to come out of the ’servant’ class and mindset. [...]
