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Books, music and movies – what I liked about them and what I quite didn’t enjoy. This is the place for some serious contemplation. This is the place for book, music and movie reviews.

A Book that Startles and Saddens

June 27, 2025June 27, 2025

Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng is a story that startles and saddens repeatedly and one that has several important lessons for parents. It’s a book that has stayed with me months after I have finished reading it.

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Where Books Lead One into Different Lives

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024

A quick take on Matt Haig’s extremely popular book, “The Midnight Library”.

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A Fascinating Journey into the Human Mind

May 14, 2023May 15, 2023

My thoughts after reading the book “And how do you feel about that?” by therapists Aruna Gopakumar and Yashodhara Lal.

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Notes Of a Dream

November 1, 2018February 15, 2019

Some memories and thoughts on AR Rahman and his music upon reading “Notes of a Dream – The Authorized Biography of AR Rahman” written by Krishna Trilok.

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Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’ : Intense, Lyrical and Stirring

April 14, 2016July 14, 2016

A review of Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’.

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Aman Sethi’s ‘A Free Man’

September 20, 2011April 20, 2015

‘A Free Man’ by Aman Sethi is narrated exceptionally well and combines good journalistic writing with a moving story of an unknown man and his life. That is its winning point, making it a worthy read.

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Amrit N. Shetty’s ‘Love Over Coffee’

June 1, 2010April 20, 2015

Paritosh Uttam’s ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’ and Amrit N.Shetty’s ‘Love Over Coffee’ are two of the three books published by Penguin under its ‘Metro Reads’ series. The Metro Reads are meant to be ‘fun, fiesty and fast reads for the reader on the go’. Both have dreams at the heart of their plots, are attractively designed and are definitely fast-reads. Here’s a review of Love over Coffee.

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Paritosh Uttam’s ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’

June 1, 2010April 20, 2015

Paritosh Uttam’s ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’ and Amrit N.Shetty’s ‘Love Over Coffee’ are two of the three books published by Penguin under its ‘Metro Reads’ series. The Metro Reads are meant to be ‘fun, fiesty and fast reads for the reader on the go’. Both have dreams at the heart of their plots, are attractively designed and are definitely fast-reads. Here’s a review of ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’

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Co-founder & Co-editor of the online literary magazine, Spark. Author of 'Fragments of the Whole', a flash-fiction collection and 'Ways Around Grief & Other Stories', a short-story collection. Creative specialist with expertise in content strategy and management, editing and magazine design.

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