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The other day, sitting on my lazy ass and sipping Karak Chai, I was watching a leading Nationalist TV channel. Don’t be surprised. In India everything – people and even things – are given ‘national’ and ‘anti-national’ tags. Anti-national people are meant to go Pakistan. But these low lives forcibly stay here. [Read more…]
Dear Liberals,
I was as shocked as saddened by the anti-Trump protests that have erupted across cities of USA. Reportedly demonstrators carried out placards condemning Trump and shouting slogans against him. In some places traffic were disrupted causing a lot of inconvenience to public. Some of the banners that read ‘Trump is not my President’, ‘Dump Trump’ and the likes, while some of you are demanding his impeachment. [Read more…]
Everyone Has a Story
An aspiring writer meets a would-be-globtrotter at a book event. A mutual friend and cafe manager, who has his own issues, help them bond together. The feeling grows but before it could bloom into love something unexpected happens. The duo separates, leaving each of them torn between their ambition and feeling. Would they meet at the end? Would they achieve their dreams? The roller coaster plot would take you along the curve.
It is said that good novels shatter their generic origins and become unto a phenomena themselves. Rarely this maxim, especially in India, held firmly than in debutant Savi Sharma’s Everyone Has a Story. Plotting a plot through labyrinth of lives that converge, and displaying remarkable literary ventriloquism, the young author has shown a glimpse of her radiant talent. [Read more…]
Savi Sharma – the new kid on the block- instead of learning crawling first has taken a giant leap in India’s English fiction writing scene. Her debut novel Everyone Has a Story has sold more than 1 lakh copies just in 100 days, and had occupied number one slot for weeks before arrival of Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl. Now in its second print the book is at number 2 among Amazon’s bestseller’s list. [Read more…]
Where is My Story? The JNU Way
Where is My Story? The JNU Way by Tulika Dubey recounts story of a conservative village girl who goes to JNU against her family's wishes to do what she wanted. Obviously it has a consequences, which the girl experiences and realises all the positives and negatives of her decision.
College and University days are like a piece of paradise that remains etched in our memory forever. Grains of more nostalgia added when college you went turns out to be a reputed one. You often relive those unforgettable moments by visiting your alma mater every now and then, meeting your classmates periodically, opening your college diaries or viewing carefully-preserved albums/videos. Where is My Story? The JNU Way by Tulika Dubey, is one such books that takes you back to your college days and gives you feeling of euphoria over those bygone moments. [Read more…]
Up Campus, Down Campus The Adventures of Anirban Roy in JNU
A boy from Bihar arrives in JNU with a dream of becoming a civil servant. Soon his ambition sidelines when confronted with reality of JNU. He does things which his heart does not want to. From contesting election to sleeping with a chick, he does it all and experience things that quintessentially JNU stuff.
Yet another campus novel but with a little twist! Up Campus and Down Campus: The Adventures of Aniraban Roy in JNU, authored by Times of India journalist Avijit Ghosh, takes a peep at campus life in JNU of bygone vintage era of 80’s. He walks you back, inter alia, to campus politics during some of watershed events in history like Tiananmen massacre and Mandal agitation while spilling the dirty secret of leftists of campus simultaneously. Fasten your seat belt for a thrilling adventure to the JNU of 80’s! Jet set go! [Read more…]