Nimitham / நிமித்தம் by S. Ramakrishnan

Is there anything worse in this world than being rejected and neglected? Plot This Tamil novel tells the story of Devaraj, a man who faces challenges because he can't hear well. Life throws many obstacles his way: sometimes it's his own insecurities, sometimes it's bad luck, and sometimes it's just the way things turn out. …

Five on the Treasure Island – Enid Blyton (Review)

Five on the treasure island by Enid Blyton is an engaging and delightful adventure story for kids. It takes over the reader from page 1 (in which many children or even adult books fail). It is packed with excitement all the way till the end. That makes this novel a perfect read for young readers …

The housekeeper and the professor by Yoko Ogawa

A book should absorb a reader in its first 20%, imo. If it doesn’t, better to keep it aside without any regret. After all we are a human being, we are not bound to read all that were published. But can a book swallow a reader in its first page itself and swirl him into …

Lahore by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

Manreet Someshwar's Lahore (2021), the first book in her Partition Trilogy, is a historical fiction novel that take the readers into the traumatic period of India's partition and the subsequent independence. The novel unfolds through two parallel narratives - the historic events that includes Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Mountbatten - Edwina couple and their daughter Pammi …

Rajambal by J.R. Rangaraju

Rajambal (1908), a vintage Tamil detective novel, offers readers an intriguing plot with a social commentary interweaved with the sharp mind of an investigator Govindan. Rajambal was daughter of a rich man Swaminatha Sastri. Kanakavalli, her stepmother, wanted Rajambal to marry her brother Natesan. As Swaminatha Sastri did not agree, she tricked to fix the …