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Book Review: Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work

Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul at Work is a book of 101 stories of Entrepreneurship & Creativity at the Workplace | Jack Canfiled, Mark Victor Hansen & Juhi Rai Farmania | Chennai: Westland |2011 | Rs. 295/- My rating: … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) | Charles Dickens

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is Dickens’ last novel | unfinished | To spice it up, it is a murder mystery which Dickens left unfinished when he died! It almost seems as if, Dickens timed his death or timed the … Continue reading

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Book Review: Sorayya Khan’s Noor (2003)

What do you think is the greatest gift we have. Does something called Memory figure  anywhere in the list! Even if it is absent, hats off to the creator, the one with the capital C, it’s one lovely technology put … Continue reading

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Book Review: The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | DOP: 1997| Publishers: Random House, IndiaInk| Get your Copy  Online  My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve read the novel The God of Small Things (GST) multiple times but never ever wrote a review … Continue reading

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A Pre-View of Looking Thru the Glass

Looking Through Glass(1994) is a novel by Mukul Kesevan. No! I haven’t read it. But after I hit the publish button for this post, that is the book I’m going to pick up and take to bed. The plot is interesting.. … Continue reading

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Kartography, Karting in Karachi ;)

The title is an invitation, so is the book cover and what more to catch my interest – the blurb said it’s about two friends, their journey from the cradle (not to the grave yet)… but well into their adult … Continue reading

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Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children MC conquered :)

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie My rating: 5 of 5 stars Finally, I’ve read the canonical text titled Midnight’s Children (MC) by Salman Rushdie (SR) wipes the sweat off the brow, and keeps the book aside on the shelf for … Continue reading

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Gelato Vipassana Felipe : The Review

Eat pray love is done and I never saw the end coming so soon. It looked like a continuous journey with Liz Gilbert for eternity, so many pages more… partly because the edition I was reading had a beginning chapter to the sequel titled Committed… But how … Continue reading

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