(Image Credit: Vanathi Pathippakam) A compendium of short stories, written in the thirties (with the exception of the concluding story that was penned…
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Possess a maniacal penchant for books, more books, still more books & lots more books -When not watching cricket that is! Love my Scotch &scribble for fun; Spend a great part of my professional life unraveling (or at least attempting to) the mysteries of International Tax and Transfer Pricing. My eclectic interests include Philosophy; Booze; Military History; Metaphysics; Quantum Theory and such. Mush being a strict taboo though! Led Zeppelin is ambrosia but never ever talk to me about Justin Beiber! I derive inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's immortal lines, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Visceral, like a river in full spate, Abitha is an ode to a craftsman who products come alive in his…
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(Image Credit: goodreads.com) Saa Viswanathan, popularly known as “Saavi”, once witnessed a group of foreigners attending the famous Thayagarajar music festival in the…
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(Image Credit: Thirumagal Nilayam) Interspersing his magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, the Sahitya Academy Award winning Alai Osai, and the magnificent Sivagamiyin Sapatham, are…
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(Image Credit: noexitpress.co.uk) The year is 2016. The results of a tumultuous Presidential election have just been announced in the United States of…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Frank Herbert’s second installment in the Dune saga, ‘Dune Messiah’, bears an uncanny resemblance to one of its most telling…
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(Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash) A benevolent disposition that hides a belligerent murderer A paid assassin sheathed in the skein of a pious mendicant The…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Every now and then, crops up a piece of literary marvel that unshackles itself from being straitjacketed as belonging to…
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(Image Credit: NetGalley.com) Published by Magination Press, a children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association, Jamie Roche, an experienced professional in the…
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(Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash) Biding her time and getting away from battles that aren’t hers Wielding words that cut sharper than a rapier yet…