Reading & Writing Lounge

In an interview published in Outlook in 2002, Amitav Ghosh had this to say about his fiction: “My fiction has always been about communities coming unmade or remaking themselves” (Writing through Turmoil. Sheela Reddy, Outlook, New Delhi, India, Aug. 19, 2002).
The Hungry Tide is about one such community who live on the peripheries of the [...]

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Monsoon Diary is one of my favorite books…sumptuous prose wrapped around lip-smacking recipes, that’s what this book is in a nutshell.
Flavours and family; simmering memories and sumptuous meals; quirky customs and solemn rituals; stories and spices, come together with aplomb to form a delectable book that you may want to read on a relaxed Sunday [...]

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by Steven Smith.
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
So opens the tale of The Dark Tower. A seven book saga allowing us to participate in the desperate quest of Roland of Gilead, the last Gunslinger, to reach the prize of reality, the corner stone of existence, the Dark Tower. Encompassing [...]

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