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Book Review: Where is My Story? The JNU Way by Tulika Dubey

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Tulika Dubey

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…]

Book Review: Up Campus Down Campus by Avijit Ghosh

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Avijit Ghosh
Speaking Tiger Books

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…]

One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat: To Read or Not to?

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One Indian Girl Book Cover One Indian Girl
Chetan Bhagat
Rupa Publications
272

Radhika is a Punjabi girl and good at studies. She gets a high paying job in New York, where she falls in love for first time but eventually breaks up due to irreconcilable  difference with her boyfriend. Heartbroken she takes a transfer to Hong Kong but again same things happen there too. Succumbing to family pressure, she agrees to marry a boy arranged by her family. At the wedding her two exes show up and offer to marry her. Whom she  would choose and why? The roller coaster plot will answer.

Chetan Bhagat is like Salman Khan of Indian fiction industry. You can expect all masalas to spice things up but no substance to learn and improve your literary quotient. One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat preserves that legacy. Anyway, like many of his fans I had pre-ordered his book on Amazon. He is such an author you simply cannot resist his books even though you may not want to read, or like him. [Read more…]