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The Great Indian Novel By Shashi Tharoor Writing a book review for ‘The Great Indian Novel’ has been the toughest of all the book reviews, I have written so far. I have heard and read a lot about Shashi Tharoor as an acclaimed writer. And here, I finally read one of his finest writings. Forget about writing the book, hats off to this very thought of retelling and recasting the Mahabharata, the ancient epic of India, in the context of Indian independence movement and three decades post-independence. ‘The Great Indian Novel’ is a satirical novel but to understand this satire, the reader should be well versed with all the events of Mahabharata along with the history of India during independence and post-independence. As a reader, I wholeheartedly accept that I did lose the track at times while reading as I couldn’t recall all historic movements especially post-Independence. As per my understanding, I have tried my best to map the Mahabharata characters with that of I...

Dear John By Nicholas Sparks After 5 long years, I read Nicholas Sparks writing once again. And while reading the book, I realized how much I have missed his book, for me he is the king of romance genre in writing. I have read around 8-10 of his books and each of his books makes me believe that ‘Love endures’. After his ‘The Best of Me’, this book ‘Dear John’ reminded me that it’s not necessary for every love story to have a happily ever after but it has to have a content and peaceful ending for the two persons who were , who are and who will always be in love, no matter if they don’t end up living together. Dear John is a story about John and Savannah. It’s about their long distance relationship and there long lasting love for each other. But , at the same time, Nichol has focused on the life of a soldier, what all he goes through. John who is an army man has phrased it very precisely that ‘A soldier dies or kills not for country, not for patriotism or not because th...