Dhwani Swadia's articles Letters in the Rain: Book Review Authors: Anubhav Shrivastava, Ananya Roy Book Blurb: Quite early in his life, Aman had been labelled a ‘weirdo’. His side-parted, oil soaked hair and gawky physique made him the butt of jokes among his peers. There is nothing spectacular in his life—he studies all day, has never had an interaction with a girl that lasted more than […] February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Colours of Passion: Book Review Author: Sourabh Mukherjee Book Blurb: Within days of her fairy-tale wedding with Manav Chauhan, Hiya Sen, the reigning queen of Tollywood, is brutally raped and murdered. As ACP Agni Mitra investigates into the high-profile murder, he meets Neha Awasthi, with whom Manav broke his engagement to marry Hiya, Neha’s father Deepak Awasthi, who was eyeing business […] September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Principles of success made easy-14 easy steps to climb the ladder of success Author: Roopleen Book Blurb: Principles of Success Made Easy – 14 easy steps to climb the ladder of success is the culmination of my onerous efforts of writing something simple yet relevant. It is a pragmatic account of the fundamental principles of achieving success by self-help and is the distilled essence of my years of research […] September 12, 2017September 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Lying Through My Teeth: Book Review Author: Abhyudaya Shrivastava Book Blurb: Abhay, a dentist, has always been unlucky in love. The three women from his past, Zainab, Latika and Prakriti, come back and complicate his life. To make things worse, his parents are hell-bent on finding him a wife. Stuck in this situation, Abhay decides to lie his way out of […] September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Girl With a Dragon Tatoo: Book Review Author: Stieg Larsson Book Blurb: Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there’s always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching […] September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Book Review Author: Deborah Moggach Book Blurb: When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his obnoxious father-in-law, he asks his wife: ‘Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.’ His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost […] September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Inscrutable Americans: Book Review Author: Anurag Mathur Book Blurb: This hilarious novel describes one year spent on a small university campus in the U.S.A. by an Indian student. He comes out of a small town, locally reputed to be ‘the Paris of Madhya Pradesh.’ His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly inadequate and […] September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A Bond With Nature Nature Omnibus Author: Ruskin Bond My Review: The cover of the book is different. This is an old edition of the Ruskin Bond Nature’s edition which is not in print anymore. But, it is a delight to read nonetheless. The book has different sections: An Island of Trees A Bond with the Mountains Tigers Forever […] August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Tuesdays with Morrie: Book Review Author: Mitch Albom Book Blurb: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly […] August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Little Women: Book Review Author: Louisa May Alcott Book Blurb: Following the lives of four sisters on a journey out of adolescence, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women explores the difficulties associated with gender roles in a Post-Civil War America. My Review: If you wish to start reading classics, but find their size and language too intimidating, this is a good […] August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Inside the Heart of Hope: Book Review Author: Rishabh Puri Book Blurb: We’re all a little broken, and that’s okay. Or is it? Rick has a medical condition that makes his life different from the rest. But unlike others around him, he sees this not as a curse, but as an opportunity to cherish life and all the bitter-sweet gifts it brings with […] August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked An Interview with Gurucharan Singh Gandhi, the author of Kabir in Korporates Kabir in korporates is an interesting name, what is the story behind finalizing this name? The idea was to combine the two contradicting worlds together – that I inhabit and am trying to reconcile the inherent contradictions between the two. The ‘k’ in corporate is really a stunt – to capture eyeballs because so alphabetical […] August 17, 2017August 18, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked All The Light We Cannot See: Book Review Author: Anthony Doerr Book Blurb: Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her […] August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Wiked Wit of Insults: Book Review Author: Maria Leach Book Blurb: Are you stuck for a cutting put-down, at a loss for a witty riposte, or just plain tongue-tied? This hilarious compendium of jibes, taunts, and slurs will equip you with a wealth of insults and witty comebacks for every occasion. With an assortment of quotations from great writers, philosophers, actors, and politicians on […] August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Love Lies: Book Review Author: Adele Parks Book Blub: Fern is staring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y. not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on […] August 13, 2017August 13, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Zoya Factor: Book Review Authir: Anuja Chauhan Book Blurb: When the younger players in India’s cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when […] August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote: Book Review Author: Nikita Deshpande Book Blurb: When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric taskmaster of a boss expects marketing miracles to happen on shoestring budgets […] August 11, 2017August 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Sold: Book Review Can She Ever Be Free? Author: Patricia McCormick Book Blurb: LIFE IS HARSH in the mountain village in Nepal where Lakshmi works hard alongside her mother to look after the family. When her stepfather finds her a job as a maid in the city, Lakshmi begins the long journey to India dreaming of earning money and […] August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The Edge of an Era: Book Review Author: Carlo Pizzati Book Blurb: Is this moment of failing states, flopped globalization and ultra-nationalism, with no sound economic plan in sight, an epochal one? In this book, Carlo Pizzati throws light on where we are and where we’re going through three interviews – with Homi Bhabha, John Gray and Pankaj Mishra. My Review: I took […] August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Karma: Book Review World’s First Insta Read Author: Kevin Missal Book Blurb: KARMA IS WORLD’s FIRST INSTAREAD Karman Malik a lonely man finds his wife standing outside his house. But there are two problems. One, she Karman Malik a lonely man finds his wife standing outside his house. But there are two problems. One, she had died eight […] August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked An Interview with Anuja Chandramouli: The Author of Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior Prince Anuja Chandramouli is a bestselling Indian author and New Age Indian Classicist. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince, was named by Amazon India as one of the top 5 books in the Indian Writing category for the year 2013. Kamadeva: The God of Desire, Shakti: The Divine Feminine, and Yama’s […] August 5, 2017August 5, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Letters in the Rain: Book Review Authors: Anubhav Shrivastava, Ananya Roy Book Blurb: Quite early in his life, Aman had been labelled a ‘weirdo’. His side-parted, oil soaked hair and gawky physique made him the butt of jokes among his peers. There is nothing spectacular in his life—he studies all day, has never had an interaction with a girl that lasted more than […] February 17, 2018February 17, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Colours of Passion: Book Review Author: Sourabh Mukherjee Book Blurb: Within days of her fairy-tale wedding with Manav Chauhan, Hiya Sen, the reigning queen of Tollywood, is brutally raped and murdered. As ACP Agni Mitra investigates into the high-profile murder, he meets Neha Awasthi, with whom Manav broke his engagement to marry Hiya, Neha’s father Deepak Awasthi, who was eyeing business […] September 24, 2017September 24, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Principles of success made easy-14 easy steps to climb the ladder of success Author: Roopleen Book Blurb: Principles of Success Made Easy – 14 easy steps to climb the ladder of success is the culmination of my onerous efforts of writing something simple yet relevant. It is a pragmatic account of the fundamental principles of achieving success by self-help and is the distilled essence of my years of research […] September 12, 2017September 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Lying Through My Teeth: Book Review Author: Abhyudaya Shrivastava Book Blurb: Abhay, a dentist, has always been unlucky in love. The three women from his past, Zainab, Latika and Prakriti, come back and complicate his life. To make things worse, his parents are hell-bent on finding him a wife. Stuck in this situation, Abhay decides to lie his way out of […] September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Girl With a Dragon Tatoo: Book Review Author: Stieg Larsson Book Blurb: Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there’s always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching […] September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Book Review Author: Deborah Moggach Book Blurb: When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his obnoxious father-in-law, he asks his wife: ‘Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.’ His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home, recreating a lost […] September 5, 2017September 5, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Inscrutable Americans: Book Review Author: Anurag Mathur Book Blurb: This hilarious novel describes one year spent on a small university campus in the U.S.A. by an Indian student. He comes out of a small town, locally reputed to be ‘the Paris of Madhya Pradesh.’ His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly inadequate and […] September 4, 2017September 4, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A Bond With Nature Nature Omnibus Author: Ruskin Bond My Review: The cover of the book is different. This is an old edition of the Ruskin Bond Nature’s edition which is not in print anymore. But, it is a delight to read nonetheless. The book has different sections: An Island of Trees A Bond with the Mountains Tigers Forever […] August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tuesdays with Morrie: Book Review Author: Mitch Albom Book Blurb: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly […] August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Little Women: Book Review Author: Louisa May Alcott Book Blurb: Following the lives of four sisters on a journey out of adolescence, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women explores the difficulties associated with gender roles in a Post-Civil War America. My Review: If you wish to start reading classics, but find their size and language too intimidating, this is a good […] August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Inside the Heart of Hope: Book Review Author: Rishabh Puri Book Blurb: We’re all a little broken, and that’s okay. Or is it? Rick has a medical condition that makes his life different from the rest. But unlike others around him, he sees this not as a curse, but as an opportunity to cherish life and all the bitter-sweet gifts it brings with […] August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
An Interview with Gurucharan Singh Gandhi, the author of Kabir in Korporates Kabir in korporates is an interesting name, what is the story behind finalizing this name? The idea was to combine the two contradicting worlds together – that I inhabit and am trying to reconcile the inherent contradictions between the two. The ‘k’ in corporate is really a stunt – to capture eyeballs because so alphabetical […] August 17, 2017August 18, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
All The Light We Cannot See: Book Review Author: Anthony Doerr Book Blurb: Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her […] August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Wiked Wit of Insults: Book Review Author: Maria Leach Book Blurb: Are you stuck for a cutting put-down, at a loss for a witty riposte, or just plain tongue-tied? This hilarious compendium of jibes, taunts, and slurs will equip you with a wealth of insults and witty comebacks for every occasion. With an assortment of quotations from great writers, philosophers, actors, and politicians on […] August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Love Lies: Book Review Author: Adele Parks Book Blub: Fern is staring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y. not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on […] August 13, 2017August 13, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Zoya Factor: Book Review Authir: Anuja Chauhan Book Blurb: When the younger players in India’s cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when […] August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote: Book Review Author: Nikita Deshpande Book Blurb: When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric taskmaster of a boss expects marketing miracles to happen on shoestring budgets […] August 11, 2017August 11, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Sold: Book Review Can She Ever Be Free? Author: Patricia McCormick Book Blurb: LIFE IS HARSH in the mountain village in Nepal where Lakshmi works hard alongside her mother to look after the family. When her stepfather finds her a job as a maid in the city, Lakshmi begins the long journey to India dreaming of earning money and […] August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Edge of an Era: Book Review Author: Carlo Pizzati Book Blurb: Is this moment of failing states, flopped globalization and ultra-nationalism, with no sound economic plan in sight, an epochal one? In this book, Carlo Pizzati throws light on where we are and where we’re going through three interviews – with Homi Bhabha, John Gray and Pankaj Mishra. My Review: I took […] August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Karma: Book Review World’s First Insta Read Author: Kevin Missal Book Blurb: KARMA IS WORLD’s FIRST INSTAREAD Karman Malik a lonely man finds his wife standing outside his house. But there are two problems. One, she Karman Malik a lonely man finds his wife standing outside his house. But there are two problems. One, she had died eight […] August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
An Interview with Anuja Chandramouli: The Author of Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior Prince Anuja Chandramouli is a bestselling Indian author and New Age Indian Classicist. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince, was named by Amazon India as one of the top 5 books in the Indian Writing category for the year 2013. Kamadeva: The God of Desire, Shakti: The Divine Feminine, and Yama’s […] August 5, 2017August 5, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked