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Mirza Ghalib: A Biographical Scenario

by Gulaza?ra
- Rated 3 stars
“wish the translator did a better job of paraphrasing layered ghazals. the abrupt and misleading translation apart, quite readable”

neeti wrote this review Thursday, August 5, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons

by Elisabeth Bumiller
- Rated 4 stars
“Enjoyable, startling, but without too much of the gore or histrioniocs one has come to expect of the genre. A pretty balanced and fair assessment.”

neeti wrote this review Sunday, April 18, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Ammi: Letter to a democratic mothersaeed akhatar mirza
Ammi: Letter to a democratic mother

by saeed akhatar mirza
- Rated 3 stars
“disjoint ruminations still tell a pretty potent story of the times we live in and the voices from the past we wish to respond to. Found the script section less interesting, though not unrelated. Wish more meaningful dialogues could come up... but as in life, some things are inconclusive and multi-hued. Would recommend it for people seeking answers about the times we live in and the changes we grapple with. ”

neeti wrote this review Thursday, March 18, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
To the Elephant Graveyard

by Tarquin Hall
- Rated 4 stars
“the story of a hunt to find and destroy a rogue elephant that has started killing people set in the larger context of loss of forest cover aka elephant's traditional homelands. ”

neeti wrote this review Thursday, March 18, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Last Mughal

by William Dalrymple
- Rated 5 stars
“unputdownable”

neeti wrote this review Tuesday, March 16, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
Out of God 's Oven

by Dom Moraes
- Rated 4 stars
“I enjoyed the narrative. The insider-outsider perspective was pretty interesting, especially when one has traveled over many of the same discourses and milestones.”

neeti wrote this review Monday, March 1, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
How to Be Popular

by Meg Cabot
- Rated 2 stars
“ho-humm”

neeti wrote this review Thursday, February 25, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
The Trotter-Nama

by I. Allan Sealy
- Rated 3 stars
“Very dense going indeed.... but for people who know the region, the anglo-indians' peculiar patois and foibles, an interesting menagerie of bon-mots on how another set viewed the ages that went past :)”

neeti wrote this review Monday, September 21, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
One Night at the Call Center

by Chetan Bhagat
- Rated 1 stars
“This is what happens when the first book gets well received and authors get their head turned around by 'movie-script' potentials. Sad presentation of what could have been a fairly hardhitting subject. Lack of depth shows through all the way - in charecterization, situations, storyline as well as use of language. the indi-young-lit version of a wannabe M&B formula writing. Sad”

neeti wrote this review Friday, September 4, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
Empires of the Indus: From Tibet to Pakistan - The Story of a River

by Alice Albinia
- Rated 4 stars
“liked it a lot! ”

neeti wrote this review Saturday, May 30, 2009. ( reply | permalink )