Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: Routemybook.com) Aindhu Varuda Mounam (“Silence of five years) is an alluring collection of short stories ranging from the profound to the…

(Image Credit: http://www.penguin.co.uk) Writing for the online publication ‘Psyche’, Jonathan Malesic argued that the biggest bane plaguing the contemporaneous world was the element…

(Image Credit: Visal Print Trading) The now infamous 1MDB scandal that roiled Malaysia beginning 2015 and whose reverberations are felt even today represented…

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Acknowledged by Jayakanthan himself as the favourite amongst all his works, Oru Manidhan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam, literally translating to…

(Image Credit: penguinrandomhouse.com) The words ‘Ichigo Ichie’ in Japanese, in their rudimentary parlance literally translate to ‘what we are experiencing right now will…

(Image Credit: http://www.waterstones.com) Personally, as a Julian Barnes fanatic, every book release of this cerebral author is for me a special event. A…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) A sci-fi retelling of Sophocles’ timeless tragedy Antigone, Arch-Conspirator is a one-sitting breezy and exciting read. The events that unravel…

(Image Credit: Desanthiti Pathippagam) A where-The Wimpy Kid-meets-Adrian Mole, with an embellished profundity, S. Ramakrishnan’s Pathin both mesmerizes and provokes. The reader is…

(Image Credit: http://www.commonfolks.in) Armed with a copy of Dan Cruickshank’s A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks, I arrived in London in…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) The Path is old wine repackaged into a new bottle with an innovatively redesigned label. The subtitle to this book…