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In this week's book review, Ameya takes a look at Michael Ondtaaje award-winning novel, The English Patient

The English Patient | Book Review | 1992 | Michael Ondaatje

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. Ondaatje was born in 1943 in Sri Lanka. He was raised partly in Sri Lanka and England before he emigrated to Canada in 1962. He has published many critically acclaimed works throughout his literary career. Some of his award-winning works Read more…

Book review of Sidney Sheldon's The Sands of Time

The Sands of Time | Book Review | 1988 | Sidney Sheldon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sidney Sheldon was an American author, director and producer, best known for his exciting potboiler novels like The Other Side of Midnight, A Stranger in the Mirror, Rage of Angels, and Master of the Game. A majority of his novels were adapted as movies and TV series. Before he became an author, Read more…

Book review of former US President Barack Obama's memoir, A Promised Land

A Promised Land | Book Review | 2020 | Barack Obama

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Barack Hussein Obama II was the forty-fourth President of the United States of America and America’s first African-American commander-in-chief. He served his first term in 2008 and was reelected for a second term in 2012. Obama was born and spent his childhood in Hawaii. He also spent four years in Indonesia. Over Read more…

Book review of Katha Chanakya by Radhakrishnan Pillai

Katha Chanakya | Book Review | 2016 | Radhakrishnan Pillai

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Radhakrishnan Pillai is a management consultant and a renowned speaker. He holds a Master’s degree in Sanskrit and is an ardent follower and devotee of Chanakya. Pillai heads the leadership center at the University of Mumbai. He has made immense contribution to the research on the legend of Chanakya. Inspired by Chanakya’s Read more…

Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone is Ameya's book review of the week

Shadow and Bone | Book Review | 2012 | Leigh Bardugo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leigh Bardugo is an Israeli-born American author. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in English. Before kicking off her career as an author, Bardugo worked in copywriting, journalism, make-up, and special effects. She is the creator of The Grishaverse, which includes the Grisha trilogy, the Six Crows duology, and the Read more…

In this week's book review, Ameya takes a look at Devdutt Pattanaik's Olympus, which is a comprehensive account of all the major and minor events in Greek mythology

Olympus | Book Review | 2016 | Devdutt Pattanaik

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Devdutt Pattanaik is a well-known Indian mythologist, author, illustrator and speaker. Pattanaik was born in Mumbai on December 11, 1970. He did his MBBS from the Grant Medical College in Mumbai. He became a full-time author after working in the healthcare industry for fourteen years. Pattanaik has authored many books in the Read more…

In this week's book review, Ameya presents its take on Sudeep Nagarkar's contemporary romance novel, A Second Chance

A Second Chance | Book Review | 2020 | Sudeep Nagarkar

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudeep Nagarkar is a well-known Indian author, with twelve bestselling novels to his credit. He featured on the Forbes longlist of the most influential celebrities for two consecutive years. Nagarkar also received many awards such as Celebrity Author 2013 from Amazon, and Youth Icon of the Year at the Zee Awards in Read more…

Book review of Boons and Curses by Yugal Kishore Joshi

Boons and Curses | Book Review | Yugal Kishore Joshi | 2020

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yugal Kishore Joshi is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and the National University of Singapore. He is the co-author of the internationally-acclaimed book The Singapore Water Story, which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Hindi and Mongolian. Joshi also co-authored Creating Shared Value. In India, Joshi is particularly well-known for books like Read more…

Love in the Time of Cholera is a timeless classic spanning several decades and countries

Love in the Time of Cholera | Book Review | Gabriel García Márquez | 1985

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. An accomplished journalist, short-story writer and novelist, Márquez remains one of the best-known Latin American writers. He is especially known as a champion of the magical realism style of writing. While he had a couple of novels and a few Read more…

Love Stories that Touched my Heart is an anthopology of 25 short stories by debutant authors from all over the country

Love Stories that Touched my Heart | Book Review | 2012 | Ravinder Singh

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Love Stories that Touched my Heart is a medley of love stories edited by Ravinder Singh. Singh is a techie-turned-author, who was penned many bestselling books. He hails from Burla, a small town in western Odisha, and is now settled in Delhi. I Too Had a Love Story, Can Love Happen Twice Read more…