Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is an English-born Canadian columnist, creator, and public speaker. He has been a staff author for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published seven books. Gladwell’s compositions regularly manage the surprising ramifications of examination in the sociologies, similar to human science and […]
Literature
Arundhati Roy and her latest novel after 20 years
Two decades after her debut book which won her the Booker Prize, the talented Indian author Arundhati Roy has yet again given us a novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness” to mesmerize ourselves in the divine aura of her creativity this week. Like her debut novel “The Gods of Small […]
Broken Wings (Review)
Love has no depth; neither can it be measured by any instrument. It brings changes and has long lasting effect into one’s mind and soul. It also brings forth the elapsed memories one never wants to let them pass into the bitterness of its mystery. Such is depicted in the […]
Three Daughters of Eve: The Confused Quest
Dealing with the indelible, Elif Shafak’s Three Daughters of Eve is translated by Daniela A. Gewurz and Isabella Zani, Rizzoli. Elif Shafak always deal with feminism and elevated themes. The story of this novel revolves around three friends. “Peri the confused, Shirin the sinner and Mona the believer.” Throughout the […]
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – A Review
Things Falls Apart is considered the alpha of English African literature. It is the book that brought the story from the ‘Dark Continent’ through the voice of an educated African through which he showed the conflict between African values and the advent of Christianity in Nigeria. Okonkwo is an ambitious […]
The Spy by Paulo Coelho – Book Review
Paulo Coelho the author of famous novels like The Alchemist (1988) and Adultery (2014) is back with another one, The Spy (2016). This time he has brought a true story of a famous exotic dancer known in the 20th century as Mata Hari. His real name was Margaretha Zelle. She […]
The Half Mother: A Review
Agony has a universal language. We as humans are implicated in each other’s sufferings. ‘The Half Mother”, Shahnaz Bashir’s debut novel is one of the few novels written by a Kashmiri himself that has successfully taken up the cause of depicting the anguish and sheer pain experienced by most of […]
Elif Shafak: Honour
Elif Shafak is a writer known for her amazing collection of novels, which revolves around the themes of Feminism and Sufism. Honour talks about the serious subject of “ honour killing”. The novel depicts two different world views the Eastern conservative cultural setting and the Western liberal society. Honour, depicts […]
Twilight in Delhi: The Dawning of a New Era
Nations, that forget their history, never make progress. The building up of something is always harder than its break-up. Twilight in Delhi, a novel written by Ahmed Ali in the early twentieth century, depicts the fall of a civilization. Delhi, once a capital of the Muslim Empire, was now the […]
The Last Song
“A story about family, first loves, second chances and the moments in life that lead you back home”. The quote which attracts every reader and one becomes excited to know the core of the story. After reading the quote I got spellbound and could not resist without reading it and […]