I like reading an old-school well written lengthy story every now and then. I prefer it without any major metaphorical gymnastics and delivered straight and preferably on a vast canvas. In Leon Uris I found all that and more and I have to say that I am a fan.

The first thing that I noticed [...]

Reading Pankaj Mishra is often a repetitive experience where he is constantly poring over the facets of India that he chooses to look at a given point in time from a perspective that always sees the glass as half empty. I have read two of this works before, “Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in [...]

These days my reading habit is back with a vengeance and the past three days I have finished off some three books (not from start to end, but more like books that were already close to being finished) and have already started on a new one.

The first of the lot is Soul Mountain by [...]