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Book Review : The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad

By amodini Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, desi, india, netgalley, review, south-asian, st_martins_press, thriller, usa | Comments Off on Book Review : The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad

[amazon_link id=”1250016843″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Caretaker Author : A.X.Ahmad Genre : Thriller Publisher : Minotaur Books (St. Martin’s Press) Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Instead of the bookish, intellectual characters that we see in diaspora stories, “The Caretaker” has as its protagonist a desi Jason Bourne like […]

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Book Review : The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, india, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, south-asian | Comments Off on Book Review : The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran

[amazon_link id=”0385338198″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Hope Factory Author : Lavanya Sankaran Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Dial Press Pages : 384 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 This book is the story of two main protagonists – Anand K. Murthy who runs his own business, and Kamala, a […]

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Book Review : What The Body Remembers

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, culture and society, doubleday, india, random_house, review, south-asian, women | Comments Off on Book Review : What The Body Remembers

[amazon_link id=”0385496052″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : What The Body Remembers Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin Genre : South-Asian Publisher : Doubleday (Random House) Pages : 471 Rating : 4/5 While I’ve read many female-centric desi novels, I’ve read very few stories of women during partition, and even fewer from Punjabi writers. In WTBR, there […]

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Book Review : The Invitation

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, desi, india, netgalley, review, south-asian, usa, women, wwnorton | 3 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0393081605″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Invitation Author : Anne Cherian Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company Pages : 304 Source : Publisher/Netgalley ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Vikram (“Vic”) Jha, Lali, Jay and Frances were at UCLA together in the 1970s. Now they live in different cities, and have different lives. Jay […]

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Book Review : The Lilac House

By amodini Posted in 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, india, literature, macmillan, netgalley, recommended, south-asian, st_martins_press, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”031260677X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Lilac House Author : Anita Nair Genre : Literary/South Asian Publisher : St. Martins Griffin Pages : 352 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Meera is a smart society wife and cookbook author, caught up in tending to her family. She lives with husband Giri, son […]

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Book Review : State of Wonder

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, books, contemporary, harpercollins, india, must read, recommended, review, south-asian, usa, women | 4 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0062049801″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : State of Wonder Author : Ann Patchett Genre : Contemporary Publisher : HarperCollins Pages : 353 Rating : 4.5/5 Ann Patchett’s most recent novel has as it’s stoic heroine Marina Singh, an Indian-American woman. A doctor turned researcher Dr. Singh, the daughter of an American mother and an […]

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South Asian Challenge for 2012

By amodini Posted in 2012, books, challenge, desi, fun stuff, india, lists, south-asian, women | Comments Off on South Asian Challenge for 2012

I read S. Krishna’s Book Blog often, but this is the first time I’m taking the South Asian Challenge she hosts. I am of South-Asian descent so the literary landscape is kind of familiar. I do read South-Asian books once in a while – I recently read “The Artist of Disappearance” by Anita Desai which […]

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The other Salman Khan

By amodini Posted in desi, education, kids, learning, linktastic, recommended, south-asian, usa, web | Comments Off on The other Salman Khan

You’ve probably heard of Salman Khan, the popular hero of Hindi films (If not, head over to my Movie Review Blog). Now here is another – Salman Khan of Khan Academy – the completely free virtual school. The first time I surfed to this website after hearing about it from a friend I was astounded […]

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How to get smart : Bring BQC back

By amodini Posted in books, education, fun stuff, india, learning, linktastic, media, south-asian, tv | Comments Off on How to get smart : Bring BQC back

This is a Google-dependent world. What you don’t know is on the World Wide Web, and it’s yours for the searching. And when all knowledge is right there at your fingertips, available with a few taps on the keyboard and a few clicks of the mouse, is there then, any need to store it in […]

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Book Review : The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

By amodini Posted in 4_star_rating, books, culture and society, india, recommended, review, simon_schuster, south-asian | Comments Off on Book Review : The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Title : The White Tiger Author : Aravind Adiga Genre : Realistic fiction Pages : 288 Publisher : Free Press Rating : 4/5 It has taken forever to get this book off my Reading List and into my hands, because I thought it would be a) Boring (did I really want to read about a […]

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