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Book review: Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya

Charu’s song This sweeping saga combines personal narrative, social history and a fascinating deep dive into how the Indian Railways works. The beating heart of the story, however, is its indomitable main character, Charulata Chitol. The story begins with Charu’s family moving to a railway township, Bhombalpur. Charu’s father works in the Light Machine Shop…

All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, actually, frankly, devastatingly This is a tribute, a memoir, a self-help manual all rolled into one. It`s written with the blazing honesty and startling vulnerability Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love is known and loved for by millions of fan. Gilbert, in this reviewer`s opinion is going for a Love Story…

Book review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

JUST FINISHED READING: Shelby Van Pelt`s bestseller of last year, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, Bloomsbury Books. We go to an aquarium in Sowell Bay near Seattle, and meet Tova Sullivan the septuagenarian night-time cleaner there; Tova carries her age lightly but the mysterious loss of her son in a boating accident more heavily. She is surrounded…

Book review: The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

THE GOLDEN ROAD by William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury Publishers. If I call this a real feelgood book and you ask why, I shall offer you the subtitle: How ancient India transformed the world, it says. And before you raise that skeptical eyebrow, let me remind you that this author could write the manual for the innards…

Book review: Hurda by Atharva Pandit

Murders most foul Ever so often there is distressing news of girls found dead in small-town India. It follows a set pattern. The reports almost always say that the cause of death is yet to be established; it could be due to suicide, murder or an accident. Places that the urban dweller pays scant attention…