Beloved Witch Returns by Ipsita Roy Chakraverti
“………Sometimes we love people without a cause. At first glance. It’s a feeling. A long buried vision which surfaces and is hard to explain or rationalise. Often, the opposite happens … Continue reading
Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff
‘My life is stuck and you’ve just got to do something to get yourself free. Anything.’…..from Jonathan Unleashed. Jonathan suffers from Weltschmerz and his work and love life cannot be worse than they already are. … Continue reading
Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins
Neel is not happy about the ambitions his parents harbor for him. He is intelligent, and they want him to win the scholarship that will take him away from the … Continue reading
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
‘It’s a shame, starting out your first day on the planet as a murderer but there you go, I didn’t have much choice at the time. Still, I could live … Continue reading
A chat with Jeff Koehler – author of Darjeeling, A History of the World’s Greatest Tea
Indians love their tea. Enter any home, corporate office or business in India, and the first thing on offer is tea (OK – coffee in the southern regions). From cutting … Continue reading
Top Children’s Books In India in 2015
An incredibly great number of children’s books were published in India. We reviewed many on The Good Book Corner, but there were more reads out there! So we asked the … Continue reading
Pandeymonium and Its Simple Lessons by Seema Mohapatra
There were two main reasons I wanted to go for the book launch of Piyush Pandey’s Pandeymonium. First, I have had great admiration and respect for Piyush Pandey, and wanted … Continue reading
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng- reviewed by Alexandra Harris
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng is really a psychological examination of the parent-child relationship rather than the criminal drama it seems like from the outset. It … Continue reading
The Curse of Damini by Debajani Mohanty
1945 – when many in pre-independence India had to make a choice between Gandhi’s ideology of nonviolence and Bose’s idea of snatching what was rightfully yours. The Curse of Damini starts … Continue reading
Take This by Steven Lewis; reviewed by Ines Rodrigues
Dr. Robert Tevis and his wife Marion get a divorce after decades of marriage and three grown up children, who had already flown from the nest. “Take this”, she says … Continue reading
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