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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Review by Aniruddha Rege There is a certain challenge in reading some authors, no matter what they write. Russian authors seem to be especially prone to this tendency, and this man Fyodor Dostoevsky all the more so. Having previously read a small book by him called Crime & Punishment, which Read more…

By firstforays, 5 yearsJuly 12, 2020 ago
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Anecdotes of a White Collared Slave

By Aashish Gupta Absolutely delighted to announce the launch of Aashish Gupta’s second book, a corporate satire/humour novel that most of us will relate to. Anecdotes of a White Collared Slave will be released as the Pune International Literary Festival between September 20 -22, 2019. Come and get your copy Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsAugust 26, 2019 ago
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In the penal colony by Franz Kafka

By Ajinkya Kale This 52-page short story takes place in a fictional colony situated somewhere far away from Europe. A traveller is sent by a commission to review the condition in the colony. While surveying, he comes across a peculiar officer who introduces him to an unusual ‘machine’- a complex Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsAugust 21, 2019 ago
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A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

Book Review by Aniruddha Rege Every reader, at some point in his literary journey, is bound to suffer from a mildly inflated ego and a sense of eminence derived from the number of books he has read and the knowledge he has acquired. In such time of delusion, I find Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsAugust 19, 2019 ago
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‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl

Book Review -reviewed by Dr. Pranav Kodial Sometimes, back pains can have interesting effects, including preventing crimes. I realised this a few months ago, after being temporarily laid up in bed for a back problem. The excruciating pain, however, ensured that I was bedridden and could do nothing else but Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsMay 23, 2019 ago
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Book Review – ?? ?????? ?????? A book that took years in the making, that began with a certain Mary Ann Shaffer’s innocent, child-like desire to write a book ‘that someone would like enough to publish.’ Publishers didn’t like it. They LOVED it. ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsMay 23, 2019 ago
Book Review

Twisted by Shirish Thorat & Sampada K.

There is nothing more terrifying than a human being that stalks and kills for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. There are cannibals, pedophilic killers, necrophiliacs and sadists who kill in unimaginable ways and violate the human body in every way possible and they walk among us like ordinary people. Twisted takes us into the minds of some of Read more…

By firstforays, 6 yearsFebruary 21, 2019 ago
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