I was seven or eight when I first read an abridged version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece, Treasure Island. It was such a refreshing change from the squeaky-clean fare I that had been reading till then – I distinctly remember Enid Blyton’s Come to the Circus – that I positively fell in love with the book. More than anything else,
Read moreEvery year, come Durga Puja, all my Bengali friends go slightly crazy. Those who can, run back to Kolkata; those who can’t, enthusiastically flock to CR Park – Delhi’s mini Kolkata. If you talk to anyone who has lived in Kolkata for a considerable length of time, they will assure you that there is no place quite like it. And
Read moreLike many, I am a sucker for happy endings and when I was looking for a light read after a exceptionally heavy dose of an autobiography from my previous read, I came across this book. And it turned out to be exactly that – a light read for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Becoming Mrs. Kumar is about Julia Robinson who,
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