Chai chai chai!! Beyond expectation!

4

Reviewed IRCTC

My word, I was not expecting this to work! I am an NRI and recently my family went for a vacation to India and I had to keep slogging here :-( They were planninread more...

Did Anita Desai Ghost-write this??

3

Reviewed Inheritance of Loss, The - Kiran Desai

Here is a conspiracy theory.Anita Desai(and not her daughter Kiran Desai) is the real author!I thought the book was ok. But did it have all the right ingradientread more...

What's the point?

3

Reviewed Yatra

OK, first of all, I do understand the viewpoint of all those fans of classic, avant-garde and artistic movies. I know they are suckers for such stuff and nothinread more...

Wonderful but hard to digest, scientifically.

4

Reviewed Calcutta Chromosome, The - Amitav Ghosh

I like to think of this book more as a literary masterpiece rather than a science fiction book. Ghosh, with amazing lucidity creates true to life pictures of Neread more...

An imperialist's nostalgia

1

Reviewed Travels on my Elephant - Mark Shand

British writers, writing about India are of two types. One are genuine humanists who look at today’s India from an objective albeit sometimes sympathetic pread more...

Interesting theme, Hollywood ending!

3

Reviewed The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

This book falls in the so called intelligent thriller category. It is not the typical Irwing Wallace thriller about the usual American bullshit. The central theread more...

Get an imported laptop!

Reviewed Branded Vs. Assembled Computers

Hey guys, Why bother with a desktop when you can get a laptop for a few bucks more? Just tell your cousin or friend or whoever it is to bring a new one for you read more...

It's a great phone (but nothing else)

4

Reviewed Samsung SGH-X427

First of all I should say that I use my cell phone mostly for making and receiving calls. I have not really caught on the wave of SMS messaging, internet on phoread more...

Not what it once was...

2

Reviewed Saroj Restaurant - Chembur - Mumbai

Saroj Restaurant was once the gem of Chembur. I am talking about the eighties when it was owned by the renowned personality of Chembur Mr. D. K. Marathe. It wasread more...

A tug of war between Kipling's two minds

5

Reviewed Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Some say Kipling was an imperialist. Some say he was an Indophile. I think he was both at the same time. One Kipling was a polished and sophisticated part of thread more...

Overrated Hype!

1

Reviewed Life of Pi - Yann Martel

After being exposed to all the hype for some time, I fell to the trap and bought this book. It left me sick at the end with a bad taste in the mouth. First of aread more...

A beautiful beer city

4

Reviewed Cologne

Cologne is also called as the city of Churches. On every nook and cranny you will find a monumental church. Some of them are so huge that they will be the talk read more...

Good book even for today's ignorant Hindu

5

Reviewed Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Hinduism, The - Linda Johnsen

First of all this book definitely does what it claims to do and then much more. The misleading title may make you put it down as superficial and suspect it’read more...

New York-in one day!

5

Reviewed New York

Here is an itenary for New York city if you have only one day there. 1) If you are arriving by train or bus you will arrive at the Central station/Port authoritread more...

Mumbai consulate fine, appl. center sucks

2

Reviewed American Embassy

I have comments on the visa facilitation service (application center) in Mumbai. It sucks. These guys, who are a private firm, by some hook or crook have manageread more...

Hostelite's day off

4

Reviewed Geeta Bhavan Restaurant - Akota - Vadodara

This is actually a low budget restaurant, that would pass of as average at best in places like Delhi. But in Punjabi food deficient Baroda this used to be the pread more...