Saturday, 3 December 2016

#Spotlight ; Before, and Then After by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan




Name of the book: Before, and Then
After
Author: Meenakshi Redding Madhavan
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The Story:


In this sparkling collection of stories, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan displays the perception, honesty and humour that marked her out as a writer to watch out for ever since she started her immensely popular blog eleven years ago. A young girl embarks on a journey of discovery after years of living with her reclusive superstar father; a misspelled tattoo leads two friends into a discussion of loss and love; a bartender relates the secrets of his trade — Before, and Then After is an astute, sensitive exploration of loneliness, missed connections, revelations, relationships in an urban landscape.





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Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan is a blogger and writer. She writes under the pseudonym eM on The Compulsive Confessor. Her first book, a semi-autobiographical attempt, is "You Are Here", published by Penguin Group. Her second book is titled 'Confessions of a Listmaniac' which was published by Scholastic.

She is the daughter of the famous Malayalam writer and former IAS officer N. S. Madhavan who is one of the most powerful voices of Malayalam literature. Her mother Sheela Reddy is a journalist.

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#Spotlight ; Dirty Martini by Kavipriya Moorthy





Name of the book: Dirty Martini
Author: Kavipriya Moorthy
The Story:


Life was all rainbows and daisies for the old-school, demure Preethi.

But an expensive mistake made her the oddball in the flashy world she chose. With her very survival threatened, an escape from the label the society had slapped on her seemed impossible.

When faced with a 'why not?' moment, Preethi found solace where she least expected it. Raghu walks into her life like a whiff of fresh air on a dewy morning. The elusive happiness he brought had the potential to heal the wounds life had inflicted on her. She could envision a future with him, provided he never discovers her past. However, fate played its favorite game, unraveling secrets she had brushed under the carpet, causing a rupture in their relation.

Preethi’s relentless pursuit to live to the fullest leads her on a different road to redemption, at a penalty. The sojourn costs her, her identity.

With her journey fueled by a need for companionship, will Preethi finally be at peace with what she had chosen for her life?

Dirty Martini dissects the judgmental, opinionated notions of the society. As Preethi treads on an arguably unconventional path, the journey evolves her threshold to understand the world better.




About The Author 


KavipriyaMoorthy was born in Chennai, India. She did her Engineering and MBA, and is now working as a business analyst at GAVS technologies. "I don't wear sunscreen" is her first published novella, and she runs her own blogs. www.yoursprofessionally.com is her micro-niche blog and www.kavipriyamoorthy.wordpress.com is her personal blog where she shares about her works, reviews other books, and writes about the process of publishing.



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Thursday, 1 December 2016

#Spotlight ; A Thousand Unspoken Words by Paulami Dutta Gupta





Name of the book: A Thousand Unspoken Words
Author: Paulami Dutta Gupta
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2. Ophelia West 
3. Arpita Banerjee 

The Story:


A hero, a person who displays great courage for the greater good, can also fall. But what happens to a fallen hero? A Thousand Unspoken Words is the unique journey of a hero who falls. 

The champion of the underdogs, the writer who uses the nom de plume Musafir is famous in Kolkata. His incisive criticism of the injustices around him earn him many enemies but he holds his ideals above all else. Scathing attacks at his books and a night of hide and seek from political goons leads Musafir unto a path he never liked, faraway from his ideals. He runs away and chooses the comforts of money over the travails of following one’s ideals. The hero falls. 

But Tilottama, passionate fan’s hopes don’t. When he comes back after many years, emotions, love and lust take charge and an affair brews. Will she bring back her hero? Will he rise again? Or will the thousand untold words, the many stories of the ideal writer be lost forever? 





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PaulamiDuttaGupta is a novelist and screen writer. She shuttles between Kolkata and Shillong. She has worked as a radio artist, copy writer, journalist and a television analyst at various stages of her life, having been associated with AIR Shillong, The Times of India—Guwahati Shillong Plus, ETV Bangla, The ShillongTimes, Akash Bangla and Sony Aath.As an author, her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and literary magazines. A Thousand Unspoken Words is her fourth book. Paulami also writes on politics, social issues and cinema. Her articles have appeared in Swarajya, The Forthright and NElive.

Paulami is associated with cinema and her first film, Ri-Homeland of Uncertainty received the National Award for the Best Khasi Film. Her second film Onaatah—Of the Earth is at post production stage and will release in 2016. She is currently working on her third screenplay. A short film tentatively titled ‘Patjhar’ is also in the pipeline.

Paulami is a complete foodie and is almost obsessed with watching one film every day. She also loves reading—political and social commentaries are her favourite genre. Literature classics and books on cricket are also a part of her library, apart from a huge collection of romances. Jane Austen’s fictional character Mr. Darcy is her lifelong companion. She is an ardent fan of Rahul Dravid and has been following all news about him for almost twenty years now.



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Wednesday, 30 November 2016

#Spotlight ; Kashmir House by Vikram Dhawan




Name of the book: Kashmir House
Author: Vikram Dhawan
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The Story:


"A society is judged by how they treat their women and, a country is judged by how they treat their brave." An ego tussle between a politician and a bureaucrat perils Deep Assets inside the enemy territory. A holocaust survivor borrows knowhow from slayers of his family for profit. An honourable leader challenges the Witches & Wizards of the system. An atheist adversary who strikes in the name of god. Kashmir, a playground for settling scores.








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  Vikram is well-traveled, well-read and passionate about world history and is inspired by personal experiences of soldiers, spies and survivors of wars across the globe.






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#Spotlight ; Glitter and Gloss by Vibha Batra




Glitter and Gloss by Vibha Batra
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The Story:


A romantic comedy that is funny, contemporary and sharp.

Misha is a make up artist who, after a series of mishaps and twists and turns, falls madly in love with Akshay who reciprocates her love with ardour. The only hitch in this perfect romance is her prospective sister-in-law who thinks Misha is everything a Bahu shouldn’t be: garrulous, geeky, gawky, gainfully employed (especially the last bit). The question is will Misha win Didi (and the Kha-Pee Panchayat) over with her Stepford Wife Act? Will she continue to be the poster child for the inherent evils of the Bahu Brigade? Or will she learn to ‘lau’ herself before the whole world and its wife can do the same?






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Vibha Batra is an advertising consultant, author, poet, lyricist, and columnist. Her published books include: Sweet Sixteen (Yeah, Right!), Seventeen and Done (You Bet!), Eighteen and Wiser (Not quite!)--a young adult trilogy published by Penguin--Ishaavaasya Upanishad, a translation of her grandfather, Shri Vishnu Kant Shastri’s book published by Rupa Publications, a poetry collection titled Tongue-in-cheek and a collection of short stories titled A Twist of Lime. She has also contributed short stories (Indian Voices, Happy Birthday to Me, Urban Shots Love Collection, Down the Road, City of Gods, Vanilla Desires, 9.69 seconds, Chicken Soup) and poems (Dance of the Peacock, Suvarnarekha, 20-20) to several national and international anthologies and written for various magazines.




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Monday, 28 November 2016

#BookReview ; Ashvamedha by Aparna Sinha



"You have to dethrone a powerful man to become the most powerful. I was itching to defeat the single most powerful person, but there wasn't any. I was left with only one choice — to create one."

Little does Ashwin Jamwal know that the last twenty-five years of his life have been controlled by a master manipulator, who wanted to make him the most powerful man on earth, though for a reason! Ashwin steps up to take oath as the youngest Prime Minister of India and is unknowingly thrown into a vortex of power and authority as the entire world is threatened by a faceless enemy — Hades.
The world starts to look up to Ashwin as the savior, but he was just a pawn, reared only to be sacrificed in the end.
A story of greed, lies, deceptions, manipulations and corruption, Ashvamedha is a thriller revolving around the infamous game of power in a maddening bid to seek absolute control. 


Ashvamedha, The Game of Power is a political thriller fiction written by Aparna Sinha. The author has a Master’s degree in management & worked for sometime but had to quit because of a chronic disease, she then decided to work on her passion of writing. She wrote her first poem when she was 7 which she recited on All India Radio. Her passion to write just started from that point, her literary work & industry specific articles have been published in various reputed magazines across Asia.

This political thriller story revolves around Ashwin Jamwal, a young energetic man who wants to do something for his country. His life takes twists & turns which lead him to join a political party after resigning from his job as a civil servant. Eventually his hard work along with dedicated PR paid & he gets to be the Prime Minister of India. His looks along with his belief to build a better India takes him to another level of fame but everything seems to crumble down when a non-descript entity who calls himself as Hades threatens all the countries to release a virus which will kill 75% of the world population. He also claims to be instrumental in Ashwin’s historical fame all around the world & wants to take his place instead which leaves Ashwin dumbfounded & confused. Read this power packed book to get a taste of the tug of war of power between several people which will take you to the age. Get it now!

First of all I’ll have to compliment the author to come up with such a complex story written in a simplistic way that it creates a web of deceits, secrets & plotting which will simply blow the reader’s mind off! The story isn’t just about politics but also the thirst of power which slowly develops in a person & that’s what makes it an unique read. The language used isn’t complicated at all, also the title is appropriate, the idea behind the cover is good but the graphics could’ve been a bit better as well as the editing but the story compensates all these points. A must read!



Sunday, 27 November 2016

#Spotlight ; Fantastic 40 by Reetwika Banerjee





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1. Merril Anil
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The Story:


“Fantastic 40” is arguably one of India’s first assortment of English micro stories (shorter than a short story) which is an amalgamation of author’s figments of imagination based on fiction works depicted in the form of crispy narrations. It contains 40 stories encircling various moods of life including love, humour, trust, revenge, happiness, anguish, sarcasm, mystery, affection, sportsmanship, friendship, thrill, romance and forgiveness. Though all the events/characters depicted in the book are purely imaginary, yet readers can easily identify oneself with most of them. Target readers will mostly include the young readers – agewise or mindwise who enjoy reaching climaxes in a single breath. The language used being extremely crunchy, it will also attract anyone who enjoys witty puns and sweet love stories.





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Reetwika Banerjee is the author of four fascinating books:– 
1. ‘Fantastic 40’ (collection of 40 micro stories)
2. ‘Zenova 20’ (assortment of 20 short stories)
3. ‘BhangaMonerDinga’ (set of 50 Bengali poems)
4. ‘Cuddle & Clash’ (bag of 25 feather-touch stories).

Reetwika marked her first appearance as a published author in 2014, arguably authoring India’s first assortment of English “Micro” stories under the title of ‘Fantastic 40’, published by All About Books Global Publishers. The book received a warm response from its readers and recently the grand 2nd edition has been released under the umbrella of Purushottam Publishers. In 2015, she came up with a bag of 20 awesome thought provoking stories under ‘Zenova 20’. During the Kolkata International Book Fair 2016, her debut Bengali poem collection ‘BhangaMonerDinga’ (Broken Heart’s Boat) was released. All her books have gathered waving accolades from the readers. Reetwika’s recent release ‘Cuddle & Clash’ offers her latest collection of 25 feather-touch stories which are bound to touch anyone’s heart with its sweetness. 

Reetwika has also been into technical writing and two of her research articles have been published in below international journals:-
1. "Proposing a Digital Cloud Security Model to Fight Against the Potential Data Security Risks of Digital India" published in "Digital India - Rhetoric vs Reality" journal by Scholar Publications, Feb 2016
2. "Figuring out the Best Change Management Strategy in the Domain of Information Technology" published in Vignana Jyothi Journal of Management, Jan 2010

Apart from her solo works, Reetwika has also contributed to the below list of anthologies in 2016:-
1. "The Last Cry" - poem published in "Love Balloons" anthology, 2016
2. "If I Could Finish My Journey" - story published in "If I Had A Last Wish" anthology, 2016
3. "1 Status Update, 10 Photos" - story published in "Social Networking" anthology, 2016
4. "A Token of Love" - epistolary story under publication in "From the Closet of Heart" anthology, 2016
5. "Falling in Love" - Haiku poem under publication in "Haiku Pocket Book" anthology, 2016

Reetwika, Indian by birth, is an Engineer-MBA from a prestigious International University. She is currently associated with one of the world's most respected consulting giants as Data Security Consultant. 

A native of Kolkata, Reetwika is now settled in the silicon city of Bangalore. An Associate Member of The Film Writer’s Association, Reetwika is also a regular creative contributor to various anthologies, magazines and technical journals across nations. 



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