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Charting a
Periodic Table of Hate
Reviewed by Roopinder
Singh
Helium
by Jaspreet Singh
Bloomsbury India. Pages 284. Rs 499
Raj
Kumar is a
chemistry teacher at Cornell University. Like so many Indians, he
lives in America and has carved out a life that would be envied by
many. His success at work does not extend to his personal life. Now
divorced, he comes back to India after 25 years to work out his
demons, particularly those that connect him to a dark past.
His
story explains why he played the way he did
Reviewed by Rohit
Mahajan
My Autobiography: At the Close of Play
by Ricky Ponting
Harper Sport. Pages 700. Rs 999
the
Pontings were "working-class people from a working-class part of
Launceston". Launceston is a town in the island of Tasmania, a
state that lies 150 miles south of the Australian continent — this
would be absolute backwaters even now, let alone the 1970s of Ricky
Ponting's childhood.
Powerful
search for identity
Reviewed by Vikrant
Parmar
Land Where I Flee
by Prajwal Parajuly
Quercus/Penguin India Pages 266. Rs 499
when
the term Chaurasi first appears in the initial pages, the tenor
of young author Prajwal Parajuly's first novel Land Where I Flee
is set in right earnest. By the end of the 250-odd pages, one can only
applaud his creative genius. Prajwal knows where he is taking his
story and he takes it with elan.
Of kundan jewellery
& a hellish marriage
Reviewed by Aditi Garg
Kundan Jewellery
by Parag Vyas
Published by PHD Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, in association with Konark. Pages 99. Rs
2,000
jewellery has always
been held in high regard by women and has served to convey their
social standing. In India, many types of jewellery abounds but the
ancient art of making kundan jewellery has seen a boom in the
recent years.
The Last Rain of The
Winter
by Raman Chopra
Frog Books. Pages 279.
Rs 245
The great Indian
stereotype; a joint family with property disputes, wives who scheme
and a mistress in the eye of the storm; The Last Rain of The Winter
by Raman Chopra is a novel that revolves around a Punjabi Family
in Amritsar.
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