Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: Vanathi Pathippakam) A compendium of short stories, written in the thirties (with the exception of the concluding story that was penned…

(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…

(Image Credit: goodreads.com) Saa Viswanathan, popularly known as “Saavi”, once witnessed a group of foreigners attending the famous Thayagarajar music festival in the…

(Image Credit: Thirumagal Nilayam) Interspersing his magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, the Sahitya Academy Award winning Alai Osai, and the magnificent Sivagamiyin Sapatham, are…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(Image Credit: Vikatan Publications) The unparalleled story telling capabilities of Kalki attain its apogee in the concluding volume, a tome titled “Thyaga Sigaram”.…

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) This imaginatively titled book – originally penned in French as ‘Nouvelle Histoire de I’Inde’ – by the former South Asian…