A necessary evil

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Reviewed State Bank Of India

Feb 26, 2016 2426

State Bank of India is one of India’s largest(second now due to its non-performing assets), oldest and most trusted banks. It has the largest number of bRead more...

Good initially, worsens with time

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Reviewed Philips 6 Cup Coffee Maker HD7450

Feb 26, 2016 4009

I got Philips Coffee Maker HD7450 a couple of years ago. It was available for a little over 1500 bucks back then, and for the price it was a steal. It made goRead more...

Watchable, overrated

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Reviewed Neerja

Feb 26, 2016 2652

I went to watch this movie because everybody on social media has been going ga-ga over Sonam Kapoor of late. I was mildly disappointed but I won’t say thRead more...

Nothing good about it

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Reviewed Select Citywalk - Saket - New Delhi

Feb 14, 2016 10112

There is very little that separates malls from each other these days. They all follow the same basic architectural template, one that includes enormous glass Read more...

Fragile as a studio

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Reviewed Dell Studio 14

Feb 11, 2016 5277

I got Dell Studio 14 in 2009. The specs were impressive. It housed a reasonably fast 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 duo processor with 4 GB of RAM at a time when 1 GB oRead more...

Wish you didn't have a love story

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Reviewed I Too Had A Love Story - Ravinder Singh

Feb 10, 2016 5120

If there was ever an award for poor writing, I would recommend Ravinder Singh in I Too Had A Love Story for it. There are errors of syntax, and outright grammRead more...

Lots of better products out there

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Reviewed Denver

Feb 10, 2016 18667

I used Old Spice deodorant, but this time I thought I should try Denver. The packaging looked good and I thought the fragrance would match the expectations thRead more...

Pathetic network

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Reviewed MTS Mobile Operator

Feb 10, 2016 4377

I tried to use the MTS data card(Mblaze) for internet, but I was let down by the experience. The network reception is terrible. I live in New Town, Kolkata, Read more...

Don't shop here

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Reviewed Ebay

Feb 10, 2016 2349

How ebay is still up and running is a mystery to me. I have had the misfortune of ordering things off ebay and I have been disappointed every single time. I oRead more...

The complete cricket novel

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Reviewed Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew - Shehan Karunatilaka

Feb 10, 2016 1177

There have only been a few books, as far as fiction is concerned, that feature the game of Cricket as a major element of the narrative. This despite the fact Read more...

Overrated fare

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Reviewed Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

Feb 10, 2016 5725

Yet another Robert Langdon adventure from the king of Pop fiction. I read it first in school and I didn’t find it bad. But upon a second reading recentlyRead more...

A 4-year long waste

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Reviewed Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering - Bankura

Feb 10, 2016 2482

If you are serious about your education, do not go to BUIE. The Unnayani in the name means Progressive, but the institutions is far from that. In fact, if anyRead more...

Very little alchemy

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Reviewed The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Feb 10, 2016 5447

Paolo Coelho is the undisputed king of pseudo-spirituality. In his books, he tries to come across, through his stories, as someone who sees something of life Read more...

Reviewing is caring

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Reviewed Mouthshut

Feb 10, 2016 1826

When I started writing reviews on Mouthshut, it was with some skepticism that I willed myself into doing it. It seemed to good to be true. There are, after aRead more...

Staring Death in the Face

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Reviewed Mortality - Christopher Hitchens

Feb 10, 2016 1484

If there has been one writer in the entire history of civilization who has managed to be eloquent in the face of death, it’s probably Late Christopher HiRead more...

Life as we don't know it

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Reviewed The Bet - Anton Chekhov

Feb 10, 2016 11095

The Bet is arguably one of the greatest short stories of all time. Chekhov is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story format, and he is in prime fRead more...

Inspired and Inspiring

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Reviewed The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot

Feb 10, 2016 2137

This piece of poetry, a long poem, by Tom Stearns Eliot(the creator of Prufock) is perhaps, with the exception of maybe Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, the most cRead more...

Only God can help God

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Reviewed The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

Feb 10, 2016 1443

Yes, but only in an ideal world. In an ideal world, if people read, in all earnest, the masterpiece by Richard Dawkins entitled The God Delusion, then well, oRead more...

Ignored, crumbling

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Reviewed Science City - Kolkata

Feb 01, 2016 8161

Science City, when it was built, must have represented modernity in the charming old city. But today it has become consistent wih the theme of the city, and tRead more...

Nostalgia, memory, obsession, love

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Reviewed Museum of Innocence, The - Orhan Pamuk

Jan 19, 2016 1118

In this enchanting story, the greatest Turkish novelist has employed such illustrious figures as Aristotle, Forster, Flaubert, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Proust, NaiRead more...