Ink Scrawl

The attraction of reading Prashant Yadav's The Jeera Packer for me was the prospect of an easy, entertaining read. The plot, at le...

About fifty pages into Aditya Sudarshan’s The Persecution of Madhav Tripathi, I realized I still hadn't gotten into whatever was go...

The test that Shubha Vilas' Ramayana – The Game of Life : Shattered Dreams faces, is the sort of test faced by any author who att...

Why don't we get decent entertaining Indian genre fiction? I am not here kvetching about getting some good writing, but something t...

Has there been a more competent writer to emerge in the past year in the Indian English mass market publishing than Douglas Misquita? I...

Reading Ashwin Sanghi's The Krishna Key -- nearly 500 pages long what with a references section appended to the end to lend it tha...

  "Some people stop themselves from doing what they want because of what their friends would think about them. . . Some people reg...

Plot Points: Fight staged in darkness in a scrap yard in a thunder shower - check Theft from a top security lab of a nerve agent that...

If you have studied English Literature in an Indian college or university, there is no escaping the great debate and divide: Native ...

The Wednesday Soul by Sorabh Pant is a bit better than most of the "mass-market" publishing that is  so much in vogue curren...

About a millennium into the future, the universe is a lot different. Many generations ago from 3011, the year in which Sue Lange's...

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams , the Vogons are an alien race from the planet Vogsphere who are r...

I have always wondered why Payal Dhar and her Shadow in Eternity series are not famous enough. For the large number of authors that s...