Tag: Salman Rushdie
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80% of business books are articles padded with fluff to fill up 250+ pages. The fluff part is usually the beginning where the author has to give examples showing that his premise worked in his sample of companies. Then there is the good part which is the article, followed by more fluff that talks about…
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For an obsessive compulsive reader like myself, every year begins – among others – with a goal to read certain amount of books of certain genres. However during the year, this goal gets derailed by my impulsive reading of a flashy new novel or a non-fiction topic that I find attractive as I find myself…
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As we reached the end, satisfied, having sated our (intellectual and culinary) hunger, I felt a little uneasy because the whole night we had been discussing India and Pakistan and on the next table were an expat couple (their timidity signaling a preliminary stage of their dating) one American born Indian (an ABCD) the other…
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I discovered Midnight’s Children in a bookstore in Mumbai eight and a half years ago and was more than pleasantly surprised as soon as I began reading it on the train from Agra to Delhi. Back then, my knowledge of Rushdie was limited to the controversy after the fatwa and I must say I am…
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White Teeth hakkini veremeyecek tek cumlelik bir ozet gerekirse 74’lerde dogan 3 cocugun kuzey Londra’daki hayatlariyla ilgili bir roman. Cocuklarin hayatlarinin tam anlasilmasi icin 2 jenerasyon geriye gitmek gerekiyor, dolayisiyla kitap parcalar halinde 1900’lerin basindan 1992’ye kadar, Jamaika, Banglades, Bulgaristan, ve (en buyuk/onemli kismi) Londra’da geciyor. Bu akici ve eglenceli romanin ana temalari goc, Ingilizler…