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Elephants in the Room – Book Review

posted in Reviews on November 4, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Suraj Laxminarayanan’s debut novel Elephants in the Room is about ambition, fate, violence, cold-blooded murders, escapades and a sensational experience of reading a crime thriller and you certainly cannot miss a page if you begin reading it. It builds up a little slow but once it catches the momentum, you won’t be able to stop… Continue reading →

Elephants in the Room Launches in September 2018

posted in Updates on August 23, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Upcoming books which make it out on the hit list are always talked, discussed and sought for a beta reading – why the hell is so much noise over it? This is the one question which always arises. So, today, we are going to discuss one such book which is scheduled to be released in… Continue reading →

American Maharajah – book review

posted in Reviews on March 8, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Mark Stephen Levy has been a regular tourist to India and he has written a novel in the past as well. However, his latest novel, American Maharajah, comes with a surprise element and a beautiful story – an American man visits India (though he is already a native Indian) and discovers strange facts about his… Continue reading →

Little Maryam – book review

posted in Reviews on March 4, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
Little Maryam review

Little Maryam is the debut novel by an emerging novelist based in New Delhi, Hamid Baig. The novel was launched on 26 January 2018 and since the launch, it has been, for a long time, on the list of Amazon bestsellers and has sold many copies. Today, I will be writing a review of this… Continue reading →

The Hungry Tide – book review

posted in Reviews on February 12, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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The Hungry Tide is a literary fiction written by a contemporary great in Indian English Literature, Amitav Ghosh and the novel was published in the year 2004 when 21st century was still learning how to walk properly and how to talk well. This novel, since its publication, has been near the centre of the academic… Continue reading →

5 Novels by Indian Authors you MUST read!

posted in Lists on February 2, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Who are the five Indian authors that you read? Mostly, the favourites who make on the list are from the passionate corridors of fiction who write about ‘skin on skin’ face-offs and take away the senses of the readers (mostly youths). However, have you ever tried to look beyond the trend? Have you ever looked… Continue reading →

A Passage to India – review

posted in Reviews on January 16, 2018 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
A Passage to India review

A Passage to India is a 1924 novel written by E. M. Forster who is known for her novels and their psychological ambit. However, the novel A Passage to India had drawn the initial responses more in the terms of criticism and less in the column of appreciation. It has been argued that the work… Continue reading →

Indian Fiction and the World Literature

posted in Updates on December 21, 2017 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Indeed; we need to talk about Indian fiction in a frank environment and we certainly have to understand that are we really over-doing our fiction? Are we becoming repetitive and just re-working the same themes again and again? Like the overburdened Bollywood which does not know how to respect movies that have a different taste,… Continue reading →

Despite Stolen Dreams – Anita Krishan

posted in Reviews on December 10, 2017 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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Anita Krishan’s novel Despite Stolen Dreams is a fiction which finds its base on the menace of terrorism and the refuge of affection – two contrary abstract ideas are put against each other and the readers end their reading with a hope that yes, even terrorism can be defeated with love and people can be… Continue reading →

The Guide – R K Narayan – Review

posted in Reviews on December 5, 2017 by Intellectual Reader 0 Comments
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The Guide by R K Narayan is one of the finest novels ever produced by an Indian novelist, without a shred of doubt! The novel is written in the simplest possible manner so that the readers can have more of reading pleasure and less of delayed-decoding. R K Narayan is one of the founding pillars… Continue reading →

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