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‘The Social Network’ sequel
High drama today as it appears Mark Zuckerberg is being hauled to court for the third time over potentially screwing people out of their dues when Facebook started. (The first two being Eduardo Saverin...
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‘The Plot to Get Bill Gates’ by Gary Rivlin
Most people of my generation would be aware of Bill Gates and why he is so popular – perhaps less so these days after he has stepped back from the limelight – only vaguely. He is that...
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Of haiku and poetry
I’ve never understood the ‘point’ behind haiku in English. Conceptually, I can grasp the idea that it’s just another form of poetry with its own rules – in this case, the restricting yourself to 17...
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‘John Dies At The End’ by David Wong
John Dies At The End by David “Dave” Wong (pseudonym for Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin) is a novel that one would expect to be the output of an author hallucinating on acid, yet still have enough...
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‘Lamb’ by Christopher Moore
‘Fantasy comedy’ writer Christopher Moore could not have picked a more controversial topic for his novel Lamb. Inspired by Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita (which, in my...
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Tarquin Hall’s Vish Puri trilogy of novels, about “India’s Most Private...
What caught my attention when I first heard of the Vish Puri trilogy of novels (hat tip to my friend Bhavika for recommending them to me) were the quirky titles: The Case of the Missing Servant, The...
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The fault in ‘The Fault In Our Stars’
John Green’s latest novel The Fault In Our Stars does everything right on paper: its plot has universal appeal among the masses and has garnered much critical acclaim to boot. This is a book that was...
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Paul Carr’s ‘The Upgrade’
Paul Carr was a fuckup. He left a career as a journalist with The Guardian to start his own multimillion dollar publishing company, abandoned it to launch a web startup under the delusion of becoming...
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Escape From Camp 14
When my friend Alexandra Wilks gifted me Escape From Camp 14 – a book on North Korea – I couldn’t control my excitement to the extent that I found it hard to hold the book open because my hands were...
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Zombie book double-bill: ‘World War Z’ and ‘Dude, This Book Is Full Of Spiders’
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is perhaps the best book I have read in the zombie genre; not that I have read many books in that genre beyond Richard Matheson’s classic I...
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