Tag: Origin

गिरीश कुबेर लिखित एका तेलियाने

खनिज तेल आणि त्याचा जगाच्या राजकारणावर तसेच अर्थकारणावर होणारा परिणाम या विषयाला वाहिलेलं हे लेखकाचं दुसरं पुस्तक. यामध्ये मुख्य फोकस आहे तो तेलाच्या जगड्व्याळ व्यापाऱ्यात गुंतलेल्या लोकांवर आणि प्रामुख्याने उल्लेख केलेल्या शेख झाकीर यामानी यांच्यावर. पुस्तकाचा केंद्रबिंदू म्हणता येईल अशा यामानी यांच्या कथेकडे वळण्याआधी लेखक आपल्याला खनिज तेलाच्या शोधामध्ये आणि व्यापारामध्ये गुंतलेल्या देशांची, लोकांची संक्षिप्त […]

The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow

Quite an interesting title and very intriguing story of a girl named (yes, you guessed it right! January Scaller. The main theme or genre of the book is magic or fantasy YA. But I am glad to notice that it goes much beyond that. This is the story of a young girl without any mother, […]

Troubled Blood | Robert Galbraith

Margot Bamborough; a doctor, practising GP has walked out for the day of her shared practice on 11 October 1974. Her evening plan was well-known to her colleagues as well to her husband; which was to meet her best friend. From there, straightforward heading to home to her infant daughter- Anna. But as she steps […]

From Words To Views: The Laundromat

This is a new review section dedicated to screen adaptations based on written words – which can be books, articles, plays or snippets in a newspapers.

Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver

At the heart of this book is loneliness. And the book weaves it’s theme of primal instincts around this. The story revolves around Lena, Garnett and Deanna- these are our central characters having their own character graphs and stories happening around or about them. Each of one of them is lonely in their own way, […]

Origin | Dan Brown

I picked up this book with some expectations about the author – unusual subject choices for his novels, ability to seamlessly mix reality with fiction (fictional reality?) and the wonderful geek hero of his books – Robert Langdon. To be fair, would like to clear out that I’ve read only The Da Vinci Code so […]