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2026 · 4 posts
February 2026
13 Feb Nation by Terry Pratchett
01 Feb Why I write?
January 2026
24 Jan The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
11 Jan And Your Byrd Can Sing by Jim Roberts
2025 · 15 posts
December 2025
28 Dec My 2025 in books
26 Dec The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
19 Dec Coffee Connoisseurs
05 Dec On Artistic Liberties
October 2025
29 Oct The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar
05 Oct Libraries and refugees
01 Oct Mother tongue and other tongues
September 2025
19 Sep Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
13 Sep Blindness by José Saramago
August 2025
18 Aug Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
June 2025
18 Jun The Vegetarian by Han Kang
April 2025
11 Apr The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
05 Apr Review of The Russia House by John le Carré
March 2025
05 Mar Review of Wool (Silo # 1) by Hugh Howey
February 2025
23 Feb Daughter of Fortune
2024 · 4 posts
December 2024
31 Dec My 2024 in books
18 Dec Fredrik Backman's Anxious People
08 Dec Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
November 2024
24 Nov Margaret Atwood's Burning Questions
2023 · 1 posts
January 2023
03 Jan My 2022 in books
2022 · 4 posts
July 2022
26 Jul Review of ain’t i a woman? black women and feminism by Bell Hooks
04 Jul Review of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
May 2022
26 May Review of A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
January 2022
03 Jan Review of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
2021 · 6 posts
December 2021
30 Dec My 2021 in books
09 Dec Review of Salman Rushdie's Quichotte
07 Dec Review of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
05 Dec Review of Pearl S.Buck's Kinfolk
04 Dec Review of Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun
January 2021
01 Jan My 2020 in books
2018 · 1 posts
October 2018
16 Oct Join my wedding*
2017 · 22 posts
December 2017
28 Dec Review of Roshani Sinha's Snippets
September 2017
02 Sep Review of Sujatha Gidla's Ants Among Elephants : An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
August 2017
12 Aug The Prodigy
July 2017
29 Jul Nithya
24 Jul Review of Alan Moore's Watchmen
June 2017
28 Jun Review: The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
19 Jun Review of Arundhathi Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
14 Jun Review of R.K.Narayan's The Guide
10 Jun Review of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem
May 2017
29 May Review of Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway
17 May Review of Manu Joseph's Serious Men
14 May Review of Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
April 2017
27 Apr Review of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
25 Apr Review of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel : The fates of human societies
08 Apr Review of V.S.Naipaul's A Bend in the River
March 2017
31 Mar Review of Franz Kafka's The Trial
19 Mar Review of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
11 Mar Hair experts
February 2017
18 Feb Chronicles of Narayana - The Punch
15 Feb Review of A Feast for Crows - Book # 4 in A Song of Ice and Fire series
03 Feb Review of The Black Tower by P.D.James
January 2017
27 Jan Review of Francis Clifford's Drummer in the Dark
2016 · 1 posts
December 2016
24 Dec Hurry up!
2015 · 4 posts
September 2015
18 Sep Modern moral stories - The Hare and the Tortoise. And a crow.
June 2015
03 Jun Guest post series - Cancer
March 2015
28 Mar Memories of chokes and near-chokes
January 2015
17 Jan George Carlin Tees
2014 · 31 posts
December 2014
31 Dec The Books That Made My 2014
28 Dec The grass better be greener on the other side
10 Dec Guest Post Series : Interstellar and my 120 Bucks
November 2014
12 Nov Tender indifference to ice creams and humanity
02 Nov Guest Post Series - Recos from a bored Engineering student
October 2014
26 Oct Stop, shrug, and fly, you fools!
23 Oct Guest Post Series - On Writing
21 Oct Guest Post Series - From Hell
16 Oct Guest Post Series - God's own guests
14 Oct Guest Post Series - Reflections
07 Oct Guest Post Series - Poison Ivy
04 Oct The Success Series : The Dog and the Buffalo
September 2014
30 Sep Guest Post Series - The Vulnerable Queen
29 Sep The Success Series (with WhatsApp and Facebook) - The Samosa Vendor
27 Sep Guest Post Series - Bureaucrat Bloody Hell
24 Sep Guest Post Series : My Most Memorable Cricket Match
22 Sep Guest Post Series : Anjaan - A Review
19 Sep Guest Posts Series - Vagabond
15 Sep Guest Posts Series
06 Sep The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph - Review
August 2014
29 Aug Oiling Happiness
26 Aug A Comprehensive (but clumsy) Career Flowchart
06 Aug Money Where the Mouth Is
July 2014
27 Jul We Are All Diseased
12 Jul Thoughts on Crime and Punishment
08 Jul The Book Thief - Review
03 Jul Man hospitalized after showing real passion towards work
June 2014
21 Jun On Freedom and semantics
May 2014
10 May Science, Morality and Sam Harris
March 2014
31 Mar What's in a name?
29 Mar Cogito Ergo Sum
2013 · 13 posts
December 2013
23 Dec Entropy and Orderliness
November 2013
08 Nov Critique on Movie Criticism
September 2013
28 Sep Little Women - Review
07 Sep Girl arrested for checking in from 29 countries while sitting at home
August 2013
31 Aug Stephen Hawking's Black Holes And Baby Universes and other essays - Review
25 Aug Weekly Digest - Must read online articles
09 Aug The Depression Flowchart
06 Aug India Today
July 2013
11 Jul Art, Movies and Philistines
June 2013
24 Jun And The Mountains Echoed - Review
May 2013
28 May Two Monkeys and an Aam Aadmi - A Political tale
March 2013
02 Mar On Kindness
February 2013
01 Feb Django Unchained - Review
2012 · 13 posts
December 2012
25 Dec The Books that defined my 2012 (Part 1 of 2)
November 2012
07 Nov The Social Network
October 2012
01 Oct The Hindi Test
September 2012
23 Sep Broken April - A poetic and poignant movie
August 2012
10 Aug The Undesirability of Truth
05 Aug The Importance of being Fickle-Minded
June 2012
26 Jun Ten Video Games that I grew up with
03 Jun The Impatient Indian
April 2012
22 Apr Gen Next - Are we heading in the right direction?
12 Apr A Strange Tale - A Short Story
March 2012
14 Mar The Intruder
11 Mar The Future Number Three
January 2012
01 Jan Kollywood in 2011 - My Personal Favourites
2010 · 2 posts
December 2010
04 Dec An excuse for my prolonged absence!
February 2010
23 Feb The Selfless Entertainers
2009 · 2 posts
November 2009
11 Nov The Falling Heros
09 Nov Me Too!