Since this recipe is about concocting a novel, the ingredients are characters and plot(s). Narrative style does not feature here as it is more of an aftertaste: good, passable or bad.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, March 7, 2010 1:23 IST
A disclosure: As a reader, reviewer, publisher, and a Keralite to boot, there is one thing I really dread: a work of fiction in English which has Kerala as its principal subject.
Section: Lifestyle | Saturday, February 6, 2010 22:25 IST
Amidst a slew of recent Indian works masquerading as fiction, here comes a book that appears to veer off the beaten track and promises to entertain without resorting to the exotic.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, January 20, 2008 3:58 IST
What you are about to read is not a review; just some thoughts that cropped up while enduring this book.
Section: Entertainment | Saturday, January 7, 2006 17:29 IST