Anuja Chandramouli: The Hopeless Blogger!

There was a time when celebrating Diwali was simpler. It meant wearing new clothes, and sitting restlessly through pujas, the duration of ...

Turkish writer, Burhan Sonmez’s Istanbul Istanbul is about four prisoners who are held without trial and tortured deep in the bowels of t...

It is just too bloody awesome when a reader finishes your book, takes time out of his life to hunt you down on Facebook and  reach out with...

All Indians are proud of their country and treat its citizens as brothers and sisters, their cultural and religious differences notwithsta...

In recent times, the tidal wave of interest in mythology has become something of a publishing phenomenon. Thanks to the extraordinary succ...

It has been a lovely Sunday. I made awesome Mughal Biriyani for one of my fave people in the world who came home for lunch. She is one of t...

'Thank you for a wonderful book' These simple yet seriously sweet words emailed by Prathibha after reading Shakti: The Divine Femin...

Kankana Basu of The New Indian Express had some awesome things about Yama's Lieutenant. Sample this: " Yama’s Lieutenant from th...

We Indians have become thin – skinned to an alarming degree and so given to taking offense at the drop of a cuss word that it has become t...

Its confession time! There are few things in the world I love better than a rave review. It makes me feel all warm and tingly from the top ...

The book opens in a decrepit Railway station in a “City – State” that has seceded from the “Back – County” which we may surmise is somewhe...

Book lovers owe JK Rowling a lot. She gave us Harry Potter. For many of us who grew up with the boy who survived, life became more magical...

You know that times are bad when headlines are obsessed with the Duchess of Cambridge’s bum. Apparently she had a wardrobe malfunction dur...

I got these really sweet emails from my readers and am sharing them with their permissions. They really made my day J This one is from ...

There are few things that suck as much as a bad review.  And if the bad review is from a good critic it sucks even worse. A couple of year...

A lot of folks ask me to recommend books for their children and look somewhat askance when I suggest letting the kids choose for themselve...

Disclaimer: This writer is no prude and therefore not liable for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or other losses and damages i...

Book Review: Rosalyn D'Mello's A Handbook for my Lover Rosalyn D’Mello’s A Handbook for my Lover , which she asserts isn’t entire...