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What Chetan
wants & why
The best-selling author’s
knack of connecting things well sets him apart
Reviewed
by
Roopinder Singh
What Young India wants Rupa
& co. Pages 208 Rs 140
He
sells millions of novels, dominates the best-seller charts in fiction,
but now with What Young India Wants, largely a compilation of
his columns and speeches, Chetan Bhagat has again stormed the best
seller list, for the first time in the non-fiction category.
The
sibling revelry
Reviewed
by
Nirupama Dutt
Balraj and Bhisham Sahni:
Brothers in Politcal Theatre By Kalpana Sahni and P.C. Joshi.
Published by SAHMAT Pages100. Rs 120
The
year was 1944 and the venue was the Cantonment Hall in Rawalpindi.
This was when celebrated writer of Hindi, Bhisham Sahni of Tamas fame,
then a young man, came face to face for the first time with a play put
up by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA).
Coming
out of the closet sensitively
Reviewed
by
Manisha Gangahar
My Magical Palace by Kunal
Mukherjee Harper Collins. Pages 374. Rs 399
Partner
for life. Rahul didn’t realise what it meant till he was about to
lose his. It was time he stopped living a lie, keeping his life a
secret, accepting the way it is and sharing his fears. So, he decides
to tell the story of Rahul`85to his partner.
Striking
debut
Reviewed
by
Geetu Vaid
Days of Gold and Sepia By
Yasmeen Premji.Harper Collins. Pages 420. Rs 399
If
all the world’s a stage and men mere actors, then all life is just a
story. And with her debut novel, Yasmeen Premji reveals her strong
story-telling DNA. She makes the reader embark on an odyssey of the
central character Lalljee Lakha’s eventful life through a sea of
words with a remarkable adroitness.
Self
parody of a writer by a writer
The Map and the Territory
By Michael Houellebecq Vintage £8.99
Michel
Houellebecq, the great provocateur of French letters, won the Prix
Goncourt in 2010 for this fine novel, at the heart of which is a
fictionalised version of the author himself.
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