Category Archives: Monday Microscope

New Release: Whisper in the Wind by Venita Coelho

About the Book These words, whispered by a madman, haunt Jamshed Fali Irani. The young heir to a business empire in Bombay, he is in Goa to try and pursue his dream of being a writer. Locked away in a crumbling, decrepit mansion, struggling to write as the monsoon rains down, the wind brings toContinue reading “New Release: Whisper in the Wind by Venita Coelho”

Monday Microscope: Shaping your story

Question: As a debut author I am stuck and not sure how to point this out simply! I have content written from 2008 till recent times. Things have changed because the world has changed. My content needs to be restructured, pruned, and the chronology also needs to be shifted. Second point about the brief ideaContinue reading “Monday Microscope: Shaping your story”

New Release: I still love you by Joyita Basak

A message showed up, “I Still love you. I Still care for you.” She murmured to self, “I know.” Some people are very good at making new decisions, Armaan is one of them. Being a son of a celebrity industrialist, everything was at his doorstep. Still he wants to pursue his dreams for satisfaction andContinue reading “New Release: I still love you by Joyita Basak”

New Release : The Prospect of Miracles – A Novel by Cyrus Mistry

ABOUT THE BOOK Pastor Pius Philipose, a charismatic priest from a small town in Kerala, is dead. As his adoring flock gathers around to mourn their ‘morally unblemished, upright, drenched-inthe- milk-of-human-kindness’ Pastor, his wife, Mary Agnes, at last free of her husband’s domineering presence, begins to recreate for the reader, in vivid detail, the terribleContinue reading “New Release : The Prospect of Miracles – A Novel by Cyrus Mistry”

New Release: How to Become Rich by Devdutt Pattanaik

ABOUT THE BOOK Lakshmi is worshipped as the goddess of wealth. Her arrival is considered auspicious, while her departure is bad and inauspicious. In temples, gods are bedecked with jewels; during festivals, our houses are decorated with flowers, lamps and Lakshmi’s footprints. Clearly, she is a much-desired goddess.

New Release: The Merman and the Book of Power – A Qissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

ABOUT THE BOOK The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. The book begins with the Mongol armies laying siege to Baghdad in 1258. Their attack does not cease from the earlyContinue reading “New Release: The Merman and the Book of Power – A Qissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqi”

New Release: Thirteen Kinds of Love by Soumya Bhattacharya

HarperCollins India presents an astute exploration of how we live and love today Thirteen Kinds of Love by Soumya Bhattacharya A child cares for a family of pigeons nesting in his balcony; is his parents’ relationship as diseased as the illness ravaging the baby pigeons? A man mulls over desire engendered by love and thatContinue reading “New Release: Thirteen Kinds of Love by Soumya Bhattacharya”