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Review of An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor

Rating: 5/5
Like most readers, I ended up reading this book after listening to the authors highly researched & popular Oxford debate on the topic ‘Does Britain owe reparations?’ which immediately got viral and received many praises and criticisms. But this success compelled the author to write a book on the same and thus provide more details which were skipped due to the time limitations of speech but also intended to act as a valuable source of reference for researchers & students. One thing to keep in mind while reading this book is that even though Britain colonized many parts of the world the author's focus is in the India of the past. The presentation of the book is in such a way that a reader looking for a chronical narrative will be disappointed. Instead, this book has an approach where the claims of the apologists are critically studied and countered with evidence making it more like a debate or an argument.

How did it begin?
The author in this chapter talks on ho…

Review of The Orphan by S.R Nair

Rating: 3.5/5

The Orphan is an interesting and faced paced book authored by S.R. Nair. The plots at a typical Indian Police station where an innocent looking chap locked in a stinking small cell. He introduces himself to a fellow cellmate as Sid Westin, the protagonist who is an adopted son of Indian Origin brought up by an American Couple and narrates his story. Even being adopted, he loved his surrogate parents so much that it never occurred to him to think about his biological parents and birth nation. However, time brings him back to India as his surrogate parents met with a fatal accident in Bombay. As the story develops the reader learns that the Westin’s were run over by a car driven by a famous Bollywood actor under the influence of alcohol. Due to the dirty politics, the victim Sid here is turned as the convict and jailed. Later the plot introduces to other key characters such as Aishwarya through whom Sid discovers his biological parents and to everybody's surprise bring…

Review of The Dev Anand Story by Govind Sharma

Rating: 3/5
Dr. Govind Sharma is an author whose book I started reading from the very beginning and I have seen how he has evolved his writing over time. But when he informed me regarding his fourth book which is also his first non-fiction book I was excited and grabbed that opportunity to read it. I love his writing style and narration and wanted to experience how he could handle a non-fiction.
Now coming back to the book, The Dev Anand Story is the authors take on the life of his favorite Bollywood actor Dev Anand. Though I haven’t watched his movies before I did search for him online before reading the book. The book starts with the events of 4th December 2011 telling us about the sad demise of the evergreen actor and from there the author cites many incidents and by giving references to the sayings of great personalities. Towards the end, Dr. Govind Sharma goes on to list out details of all important film awards, honors and his movies.
What I enjoyed about this book is its simple …

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