Title – The Dark Side of Light Author – Sanil Sachar Publisher – Rupa Publications Genre – Fiction Pages – 268 Price – INR 350 ISBN – 978-81-291-3976-4 Blurb on the Book - The Dark Side of Light, Sanil Sachar’s second book, promises a unique literary experience for readers, with its combination of short stories, poems and plays, vignettes of romance, …
Month: February 2016
Drift
My adulation for fiction was well-known in my school life. In university, I was too busy dissecting the syllabus, finding myself in the sea of literature and research papers that reading fiction was long forgotten. Once I started working, I had hoped to resume reading like I'd always wanted to. But the books I bought …
In Other Words
"I feel a connection and at the same time a detachment. A closeness and at the same time a distance. What I feel is something physical, inexplicable. It stirs an indiscreet, absurd longing. An exquisite tension. Love at first sight." The above excerpt from 'In Other Words' best describes my initial thoughts on the book. …
Pushing the envelope
As the clock strikes 11 pm my energy levels plummet to an all time low and my system slowly goes in hibernation. I do not call it sleep mode because I am pretty conscious of my surroundings, though not active enough to note slight movements. This is usually when I rummage for a bookmark and …
Six Lenses
Title – Six Lenses: Vignettes of Success, Career and Relationships Author - R. Gopalakrishnan Publisher – Rupa Publications Genre – Non-Fiction Pages – 194 Price – INR 395 ISBN – 978-81-291-3587-2 Blurb on the book - Almost with a touch of philosophy, yet firmly grounded in the reality of business and national affairs, the author argues that there is no reality, …
The Era I Lived In 