Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: Subbu Publications) The former Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University, Daniel H H Ingalls, is known to have referred to…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Paul Auster’s “Bloodbath Nation” is a cathartic jeremiad on an insidious phenomenon that has gripped the world’s biggest economy. The…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Professor of English Literature at Oxford University, Christopher Butler, once described postmodernism  and its advocates as a “loosely constituted and…

(Inage Credit: http://www.amazon.com) At the core of Niven Govinden’ s “Diary of a Film”, is another book. William Maxwell’s “The Folded Leaf”, influences,…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.in) The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic stood every bit of received wisdom relating to the concept…

(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) Books can be like Russian Matryoshka dolls. Similar to these nested wooden dolls where one primary doll has many smaller…

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) An illustrated polemic, “Accidental Czar” takes pictorial potshots at the egregious President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. While the heavy lifting…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) How often do we pause to reflect about the benefits and disadvantages of a roundabout, other than when honking, hollering…

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) At the outset, I wish to gratefully acknowledge Tim Herfkens for leading me onto this wonderful book and an even…

Laird Hunt’s formidable protagonist Zorrie Underwood of Clinton County is not so much a quintessential woman of the soil as she is the…