Ah.. Malaysia - Pulau Perhentian!

5

Reviewed Pulau Perhentian

The Perhentians Turn eastward to the coastand make a visit to paradise. Malaysiais blessed with a number of islands with mint blue water and crystal sand.Althouread more...

Ah.. Malaysia - Malacca etc

5

Reviewed Malaysia - General

Malacca Malaccais a city 90 km south of KL, which is of historical importance to Malaysia.It is said that Malaysiahas its origin in this city, when a Hindu piraread more...

Ah.. Malaysia - KL & Around

4

Reviewed Bukit Bintang

Kuala Lumpur Like most of the people (ambiguous assumption no. 1… geez), my tryst with Malaysiastarted from KL, the vibrant commercial capital. The city appearsread more...

Bombay.. (Not again!)

Reviewed Mumbai Monsoon Disaster 2005

I was about to be drowned, lost, dead in you, Bombay. You were flooded all over. You intruded with muck and your sea. You did it all to make yourself unforgettaread more...

Garam Masala!

4

Reviewed Impressionist, The - Hari Kunzru

I picked up this book from the library on a 3 week loan 9 weeks before I was to leave Bombay – forever! I never touched the book for the first term, got iread more...

Uncovered.

4

Reviewed Shame

Salman Rushdie reveals the world of Pakistan’s perpetual dictatorships, since its existence with his novel Shame. It talks about Shame and Shamelessness. Bread more...

What d'you feel the most?

5

Reviewed La Lenteur: The Slowness - Milan Kundera

“La dernière fois, à cet endroit il y avait un petit jardin de roses.” The last time, at this place, there was a small garden of roses. I read more...

D'you think if I burp here, anyone'd hear that?

5

Reviewed Anita and Me - Meera Syal

Meera Syal has almost inverted the saying ‘Home is where the heart is’ to ‘The heart is right where your true home is’ with Anita and Meread more...

Driving in India!

Reviewed General views on Indian Traffic

Call it plagiarism, or call it whatever you want. This is a mail I’ve received from a friend. I couldn’t help it, but to put it on here. Read on! For read more...

Holey Sheets! They're everywhere...

5

Reviewed Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

From Shrinagar to Amritsar, from Holey Sheets to Mercurochrome to Lifafa Das, and from Rawalpindi to Quaid –e – Azam to Karachi to Bombay, India is read more...

Revelatory!

5

Reviewed Tamas - Bhisham Sahni

Tamas (The Darkness), has been one of the most controversial works in Indian literature, due to the subject matter it deals with: communal riots! It was originaread more...

Once I'm done with kindergarten...

5

Reviewed Meet The Fockers

... I’m going to find me a wife! ’’Ah.. I felt like I was bringing out life from... uh from... uh..’’ The nurse (giggle, giggle, giggleread more...

Desires sans frontieres!

5

Reviewed Maqbool

Maqbool is a remarkable adaptation of Shakespearean Macbeth, with an Indian touch to it. The sufi sounding music, bambaiyya underworld, a perfect cast makes theread more...

An Apostle of Eternalizing Optimism!

5

Reviewed Black - Bollywood

After a long time, the Indian film industry is seeing a different kind of flick, called Black! One simply has to go beyond the conventional imaginative frontierread more...

Entangled Lives!

5

Reviewed Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is all about perplexed people with their lives torn apart between tangled relationships. Tolstoy, a profound advocate of strong family ties, holdsread more...

Some Chai Biskoot too!

4

Reviewed Butter Chicken In Ludhiana - Pankaj Mishra

There have been a number of travelogues through the Indian subcontinent, but debutant Pankaj Mishra’s Butter Chicken in Ludhiana focuses on the small town read more...

Pearls of Wisdom: The Prophet!

5

Reviewed Prophet, The - Kahlil Gibran

Then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers. And you, vast sea, sleepless mother, Who alone are peace and freedom to the river and the stream, Onlyread more...

Idolizing Indians!

4

Reviewed Indian Idol

The Indianized version of American Idol, and the British Pop Idol, has been as popular in India, as their American and British counterparts have been, in the reread more...

Truly Unbound!

5

Reviewed India Unbound - Gurcharan Das

Gurcharan Das has written this book as a retro historian, part autobiography, part a historical overview of India, as globalization changes the face of this divread more...

Reliance IndiaPhone - U've got it,U gotta pay 4 it

1

Reviewed Reliance Mobile Operator

I’ll simply put in a couple of mail conversations with the Chairman’s Office, Reliance Infocomm Ltd. for the umpteen number of troubles caused to me, read more...