Abhinav Agarwal

The Book of Story Beginnings, Kristin Kladstrup Like the title, the book's start is worthy of a book, but peters out after that. ...

Mahabharata, Vol. 7. Translated by Bibek Debroy Weapons kill, but words will hurt much, much before that ( Flipkart , Amazon US , Kind...

The 2013 edition of the Bangalore Comic Con  ( @ComicConIndia ) was held at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium - the same venue as last year, o...

Laugh with Laxman, R.K. Laxman ( Amazon ,  Flipkart , Amazon Kindle ) This is a collection of cartoons that RK Laxman drew outside the...

Spring is Here, Big Bear , by  Will Hillenbrand We read in Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep  ( my review ), Maureen Wright 's delightful boo...

After the Pandavas' thirteen year exile was over, they packed up from Virata and headed off to Kurukshetra to wage war against their c...

The Blossom Book House, on Church Street in Bangalore, is my kind of a bookstore. Aisle upon narrow aisle, shelf upon shelf stacked with bo...

I had read or heard that the Oxford Bookstore at the 1 MG Mall  in Bangalore was huge. That was the attraction for me to visit it. I was w...

The Missing Queen , by Samhita Arni " A king's flaw and a society's decay. Engrossing book though marred by an excessive in-...

Image credit: OUP The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States, by Winthrop D. Jordan One-line revie...

Coorg ( Kodagu ) is a district in the state of Karnataka, and apart from the rich and proud cultural and military heritage of the native Ko...

Coraline , by  Neil Gaiman Don't Walk Through the Brick Door. ( Amazon US , Amazon IN ,  Anniversary Edition , Flipkart , Flipka...

The Virata Parva is the fourth parva in the Mahabharata, and the shortest of the first four, clocking in at under two thousand shlokas, an...

How do you shoot more than one thousand defenceless, unarmed, peaceful men, women, the elderly, and children in cold blood? How do you get ...

Spotted at the back of a truck on NH7, between Salem and Dharmapuri. The funny thing is that even though this truck is sporting license pla...

The Aranyaka Parva is the third parva in the Mahabharata, and in my reckoning one of the riches in terms of content. While the Adi Parva  ...

Covers of Vols 1 - 6 My earlier post , collected some of the more interesting quotes from the first Parva of the Mahabharata, the Adi Par...

The Mahabharata is a goldmine of stories, episodes, conversations, and incidents. As I read the Mahabharata - specifically the unabridge...

Image Credit: andrewpyper.com The Demonologist , by Andrew Pyper Doesn't Quite Flatter, Most Certainly Disappoints ( Amazon , Ki...

From  Different Seasons (Signet) Fascinating Novella; The Screenplay of the Movie Actually Bettered It  ( Kindle ) I must have watched...