Vaibhav Srivastav
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September 2014
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Dilli Durbar
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Borrowed From Tomorrow Tales Told by an Idiot
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Sea of Stories: Mumbais and Bombays
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Echoes of Last Star
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A conceptually interesting book because the author published it originally in Italian. Stories of immigrants, often left nameless and countryless to make them universal. Heartbreak and longing makes it's presence felt often. An author who gets better ...more | |
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A generation tale across two continents painting a poignant picture of identity, separation, growing apart and the passage of time. | |
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Seldom you hope that a book should not have had a cause to exist. The writer Bandi portrays a picture of hope against bleakness, the tyranny of totalism, loss of fundamental rights (including absurdly the freedom to put a curtain of your choice in yo ...more | |
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A biography of the last great Statesman of our country, written with the pace of fiction, not intended as an expose but bluntly calling out double speak, it serves as an insightful look which isn't too unkind. And for us born in the 90s, this is also ...more | |
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At a young age I fell hopelessly in love with Arundhati Roy after reading God of Small things. It took more age and a semblance of maturity to understand the anger and truth in her non fiction writing, which as a kid I thought was too abrasive agains ...more | |
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Anita Desai has reached a stage / stature where rating her books seems like an act of sacrilege. this is in essence a longish Short story and not a novel. The writing is excellent but the story leaves one wanting. |
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In a way nothing happens in this book, and perhaps everything does. Detailing the minutae of life in an unnamed city, and the pitfalls and advantages of having not much but your own mind to talk to. Jhumpa Lahiri speaks in a language that goes straig ...more | |