In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote his magnum opus 'Brave New World' - a prescient masterpiece dealing with what the author termed as 'a fable dealing with de-humanization employing techniques of over organisation'. This prophetic anti-utopian novel ranks alongside George Orwell's '1984' as one of the most influential books penned on the swift and forced erosion … Continue reading Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

Intrigue, ambition and treachery. Jeffrey Archer's first volume of the Clifton Chronicles has a story line that is racy, a plot that is complex and a conclusion that will leave you scrambling to lay hands on the second volume. Harry Clifton leads a dreary and impoverished existence with a hardworking mother Maisie Clifton, an inebriated … Continue reading Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles #1)

The Bill Hodges trilogy reaches the apogee of mystery with the "End of Watch". A racy thriller, "End Of Watch" has Retired Detective William ("Bill") Hodges coming face to face with his nemesis Brady Hartsfield in a manner that is mystifying, Macabre and malignant. Brady Hartsfield also known as The "Mercedes Killer" for having infamously … Continue reading End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy #3) by Stephen King

Taking recourse to seven diverse real life stories or rather strenuous struggles, Somini Sengupta reveals the arc of paradigm shift that is catapulted Indian into the forefront of global capitalism and economic development. An India that surges ahead with optimism, outlook, drive - a far cry from the sordid environment the author herself experienced in … Continue reading The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young by Somini Sengupta

Grit, Gumption and Greatness. These were the three infallible attributes of the man voted by the Runners World Magazine as the Greatest Runner of All Time. Setting a slew of world records (18 in total), achieving the incredible treble victories (5000 metres; 10,000 metres and the Marathon) at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, and leaving … Continue reading Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek by Rick Broadbent

This is one of the best books that Michael Lewis has ever written! The embellished nature of the book is singularly attributable to the chosen subject. The riveting story of how two geniuses came together in a collaboration that toppled the very edifice of conventional thinking and demolished the way in which people think. The … Continue reading The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis

If you are looking for the searing and adrenaline coursing book that lays out the blood and gore of the battle for the Pacific in the Second World War, then Robert Leckie's "Helmet For My Pillow" is not your book. However if you are looking out for a first person narrative about the squeamishness, tragedy … Continue reading Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Reading Haruki Murakami is like sampling the Durian. For the uninitiated, the Durian is an obnoxious smelling, even more obnoxious tasting, ravaged and ugly textured fruit which is glorified as the "King of Fruits" in South East Asia. There are only two categories of homo sapiens when it comes to the Durian. Those who are … Continue reading Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

The saga of the Cliftons and the Barringtons surges ahead in Jeffrey Archer's sequel to the bestselling "Only Time Will Tell". Tom Bradshaw awakens on board a ship after narrowly escaping death when "Devonian", the ship on which he was employed gets torpedoed by the Nazis. However a shock is awaiting Bradshaw as the moment … Continue reading The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles #2) by Jeffrey Archer

The master of the macabre sets aside his chosen genre of craft and instead devotes himself to introspecting the tenets that lead to a writer accomplishing his objectives. The result is a marvelous quasi memoir; part tutelage on the art of professional authoring. Extremely readable and extraordinarily candid (Stephen King writes without inhibitions of the … Continue reading On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King