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Review: To Sell is Human

By Daniel H. Pink. Grade: B+   To Sell is Human According to the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. Every day more than fifteen million people earn their keep by...

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Review: The Hit

By: David Baldacci. #2 in the Will Robie Series. Grade: B+   The trap is set. Failure is not an option. The Hit When government hit man Will Robie is given his next target he knows he’s about to embark...

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Review: D

By Aniruddha Mahale . Grade A   This is not a story. It might be long, and have chapters. It might even appear like one—with a beginning, and an end, and also a middle, but it still isn’t one. It is a...

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Review: The Reluctant Matchmaker

By Shobhan Bantwal. Grade B+ The Reluctant Matchmaker What if your boss asks you for a favour you cannot decline? At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy is single and enjoys a flourishing professional life at a...

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Review: Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero

 By: William Makepeace Thackeray. Grade A+ The first thing that grasped me as I began the novel ‘Vanity Fair’ was the immense confidence of the author, William Makepeace Thackeray. He doesn’t just...

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Review: IIM-A Strategies For The Future

By Ajeet N. Mathur. Grade B It is rightly said, “One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.” With the onset of globalisation,...

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Review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots

Our Moon has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits By Rahul Pandita. Grade: A   Immediately after finishing Curfewed Night, another review copy from Random House, my sister became obsessed...

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Review: Becoming Mrs. Kumar

By Heather Saville Gupta. Grade B.   It’s not easy to write about India. Nine out of ten times, the firangis are too enamoured by the idea of the exotic, mysterious Orient, with our snake charmers, our...

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Review: The Virgins

By Siddharth Tripathi. Grade: C   When one sees such glowing reviews for a book along with a great cover, expectations automatically go up. Alas, if only everything could live up to such expectations....

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Review: The Homing Pigeons

The Homing Pigeons By Sid Bahri. Grade A The Homing Pigeons is the debut work of entrepreneur turned author, Sid Bahri. The first thing that caught my attention when I had the book in my hands was the...

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Review: Facebook Phantom

Facebook Phantom  By Suzanne Sangi. Grade: B   ‘I promise you I will not bother you if you can tell me just this one thing. Are you happy?’ After her board exams are over, Sonali – Li to her friends–...

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Review: Mothers, Lovers and Other Strangers

By Bhaichand Patel. Grade: B+   This quietly surprising book has been penned by Bhaichand Patel, a protégé of Khushwant Singh. While the blurb does lead one to believe it is going to be another...

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Review: Chords of Life

By Angad Singh Saluja. Grade B+ Chords Of Life My book Chords of Life is a collection of real life experiences and stories written in the form of both long and short poems which would easily strike a...

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Review: Love And That Bi**h Called Life

By Sreeju Sudhakaran. Grade C   Love And That Bitch Called Life is the ten year long journey which Kshitij and Ritika traverse from 1999 and 2009. Whether their friendship will withstand the storms...

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Review: The Mythic Guide To Characters

By Dr. Antonie Del Drago. Grade B The Mythic Guide To Characters How do you create characters that are so compelling that they hook readers from the start?  As a professor, writer, and philosopher, Dr....

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Review: Inferno

By Dan Brown. Grade: A After writing five successful novels, Dan Brown returns with Inferno, where Robert Langdon is tasked with saving the sanctity of the world. The clues only lie in an ancient poem...

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Review: IIM-A Strategies For The Future

By Ajeet N. Mathur. Grade B It is rightly said, “One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart.” With the onset of globalisation,...

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Review: Every Boy’s Got One

By Meg Cabot. #3 of the Boy Series. Grade A Every Boy’s Got One To: Jane Harris <jane@wondercat.com> Fr: Claire Harris <charris2004@freemail.com> Re: You Hi, honey! It’s me, Mom. I know...

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Review: There May Be An Asterisk Involved

By Vedashree Khambete. Grade: B I took one look at the book and thought I’d love it. A breezy, sarcastic read is sometimes the only thing that can get me out of my funk. Alas, the futility of dreams…...

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Review: When Strangers Meet

By K. Hari Kumar. Grade: B+ ‘Action, comedy, romance, drama, suspense… A typical bollywood fiction‘, says the blurb. Generally fiction claimed to be ‘Bollywoodiya’ reaches out to your face, pokes into...

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