Here’s my take on The Malhotra Bride by Sundari Venkatraman. BLURB Sunita Rishi’s just turned twenty, having completed her graduation. She wants to fly free as a bird, explore career options and travel the world. Does she have a choice when Mamma & Pappa insist on arranging her marriage? Born in a rich business family …
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Here’s my take on 7 Secrets of Shiva by Devdutt Pattanaik. BLURB Shiva, ‘the destroyer’ among the Hindu trinity (of gods), is depicted in many contradictory manners. He is an ascetic who wears animal skin, his body smeared with ashes. Contradictory to his wild nature, he is also depicted as having a family, with a …
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Here’s my take on Carthick’s Unfairy Tales by T F Carthick. BLURB An evil dragon. A damsel in distress. A concerned father seeking a savior. A hero galloping off to the rescue – a knight in shining armor. Now THAT is stuff of fairy tales. But what if the father’s real concern is for the …
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Here’s my take on Dead To Them by Smita Bhattacharya. BLURB Moira Madhwa is the typical young, beautiful and successful urban woman until the day she goes missing. Her friends start looking for her, but quickly realize nothing is as it seems. Moira had kept devastating secrets—secrets that could wreck their lives if revealed. As …
Here’s my take on Coffee and Mocha by Alaknanda Goutham. BLURB Falling in love with someone is pretty easy. But staying in love with that someone is quite tough. The easiest part had happened in the most ridiculous way. So! In the summer of 2013, I fell in love. I fell in love and I …
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Here’s my take on The Story of a Long-Distance Marriage by Siddhesh Inamdar. BLURB Rohan and Ira’s life takes an unexpected turn when Ira decides to leave for New York to study. They’ve been married for only fifteen months, but this is the opportunity of a lifetime, and Rohan is not going to come between …
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Here’s my take on Birds of Prey by Archana Sarat. BLURB You wake up, parched and famished, at the bottom of a deep well—dark and dingy with the foul smell of excreta and rotting scars and no seeming way to escape—what do you do? This is the predicament that ex-ACP Anton Pinto faces when he …
Here’s my take on Too Good to Be True by Kristan Higgins. BLURB When Grace Emerson’s ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she’s seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? …
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Here’s my take on 1000 Kilograms of Goa by Rohan Govenkar. BLURB What do you do at a college reunion in Goa? Clubbing? Sunbathing? Water Sports? Treasure hunt? Escaping from police and drug mafia? Falling in love? No one has ever got enough of Goa, and 1000 kilograms of Goa isn’t worth missing at all! …
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Here’s my take on Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella. BLURB Nervous flyer Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her – quite a dishy American, but she’s too frightened to notice …
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