Great War of Hind paperback version available for Rs. 99 only. Kindle version for Rs. 26
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August 27, 2016
August 20, 2016
Book Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne
With the Cursed Child, J. K. Rowling has effectively destroyed the charm of a Harry Potter book. True, the fact that it is a play vs a novel does take away from the book. But even as a novel, it is clear to see that the book would have been half as interesting as the worst Harry Potter book. With lazy plotting, characterization, narrative flow, it is plain to see Rowling has descended to Chetan Bhagat's level. The feeling I was left with at the end of the book was disgust at having enriched the already mega-rich Rowling again. The book did have its (rare) moments but for the most part, it is everything you do not expect a Harry Potter book to be.
August 5, 2016
Book Review: The Men Who Killed Gandhi by Manohar Malgonkar
Buried deep in Indian history is a story that is rarely told... well,
rarely told properly. Manohar Malgonkar's meticulously researched "The Men Who Killed Gandhi" is a biography of the consortium of men that
claimed Gandhi's life and is thus, one of the key missing bridges in
India's history.
If you read school (or perhaps even college?) history textbooks alone, where Gandhi's assassination is passed off as a simple statement, you would believe Godse and his fellows to be a band of maniacs. Or alternately, to believe that Gandhi died simply because he was killed by Godse. Reading the book just makes you wonder just how many more such incredible stories are our history textbooks hiding.
The book reads like a taut thriller but what floored me about the book were the photographs of the men, the places in the story, the receipts of train and air tickets (costing all of hundred rupees from one end of the country to the other!), the police records, etc.
Highly recommended.
If you read school (or perhaps even college?) history textbooks alone, where Gandhi's assassination is passed off as a simple statement, you would believe Godse and his fellows to be a band of maniacs. Or alternately, to believe that Gandhi died simply because he was killed by Godse. Reading the book just makes you wonder just how many more such incredible stories are our history textbooks hiding.
The book reads like a taut thriller but what floored me about the book were the photographs of the men, the places in the story, the receipts of train and air tickets (costing all of hundred rupees from one end of the country to the other!), the police records, etc.
Highly recommended.
August 2, 2016
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