Two very different books about the creative life – one speaks of resistance and the other tells you how to do it
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This Is What Book Greed Looks Like
Should we have more books in our possession that what we can read in a reasonable time frame? Some thoughts about book greed
Meeting Readers in Real Life
It was the middle of the afternoon in the middle of June. As my airplane landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, the pilot welcomed us with the announcement that the outside temperature was 45 degrees Celsius. What! Was that true? Is it even...
Book Reviews – How Education Impacts The Lives of Women
For some weird reason I found myself reading two books simultaneously. Both were based in the US, featured female protagonists and had an underlying theme of education. However, that’s where the similarity ended. The first, Educated by Tara Westover was a...
Book Review – When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The book stood silently on my bookshelf, awaiting its turn. Perhaps it heaved a sigh every time I picked something else - a glossy new read from the library, a highly recommended audiobook or even a classic. I love memoirs yet I hesitated to pick this one. Why?...
Author Interview – The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi
The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi The Book: The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that...
Why Awards Should Not Be The Measure of a Book or it’s Author
When Arundhati Roy shot to fame after her novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize, I became a reluctant observer of the excitement that follows when Indian authors are nominated for grand prizes. I was living in the USA when Roy won the prize. Given that...
Reading Adventures With Unusual Protagonists
Ever since I discovered audiobooks, I have galloped through my reading list, particularly the fiction section. I typically choose books with female protagonists. Biased? Perhaps. But I find the lives of women more multi-dimensional and therefore more...
A Fun Reading “Project” That Took Me From UK To Australia
I did not set out to intentionally read books with the word ‘project’ in the title. It just happened. Two novels that came to my attention in quick succession seemed to have a deliberate focus towards the discovery or attainment of something - in one case,...
Of Days, Weeks and Years – Epiphanies About Time
Brief reviews of three very different books which interestingly have a time component to their narratives. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett I picked up this book minutes after spotting it at Pegasus Books at Berkeley in December. Ann Patchett is one of my...
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