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Category Archives: Book Review
What’s your choice – Bullet ? Or Poison ?
Hindi novelist, Surendra Mohan Pathak’s serial hero – Sunil Kumar Chakravarty is in no way any less than the popular heroes / heroines of the foreign crime-detective fiction world. The way detectives like Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Perry … Continue reading
Never lose hope, every labyrinth has a way out
In life, we come across difficult times when almost everything seems to be going against us, when we face such ticklish problems that cannot be discussed sometimes even with our closest ones, when we are concerned less about the solution … Continue reading
Mercifully human-beings can forget and they should
I have a very sharp episodic memory and I often (undesirably) boast of it. However a novel of my favourite authoress – Dame Agatha Christie has given me a new perspective of thinking. This novel is Elephants Can Remember which … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariadne Oliver, Book Review - Elephants Can Remember (by Agatha Christie), Dame Agatha Christie, Elephants can remember but we are human-beings and mercifully human-beings can forget, Hercule Poirot, Old sins leave long shadows, psychological basis of the story examining the mental status and the thought-trains of the characters involved, Unravelling of the suspense on a layer-by-layer basis just like an onion is peeled off
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The murderous Diwali night
Diwali is the biggest festival of the Hindu community worldwide. Lord Ram is supposed to have arrived at his kingdom – Ayodhya back after an exile of 14 years in forests on this day and hence this festival, the Festival … Continue reading
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Tagged Blast, Book Review - Diwali Ki Raat (by Surendra Mohan Pathak), mystery, Rajnagar, Sunil Series
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Bachelor ! Booooo….!
I read less English books and naturally, am very selective in this regard. My friends like Deepak M.R. and Deepa Swaminathan are big fans of P.G. Wodehouse and they had advised me to try a book by PGW. And finally, I have tried … Continue reading
It’s better than the movies on Kashmir
We have had several movies made on the decades old Kashmir problem but yet to see a good movie in recent years doing full justice to the still burning issue. Kashmir has been burning for the past twenty years. However … Continue reading
