Some more Books and their Reviews

Here's a quick glance over a list of some of the books that I've finished reading and a short review for all those who might be interested.



1. Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup

It's Vikas's second book after Q & A. Like you all know that "slumdog millionaire" is an  adaptation of the novel Q & A  by Indian author and diplomat  Vikas Swarup and won many oscars for reasons unknown to me.


But I'm sure Six Suspects  wouldn't get anywhere near to it. But if well made by a Bollywood director except for Ram Gopal Verma...it is sure to win, at the very least, some zee cine award...or something like that.


Now as for the plot...the book tells us a story about Vicky Rai, the corrupt son of a corrupt politician, who kills a young woman in a fit of rage.  Despite the presence of several witnesses during the murder, Vicky is acquitted by the Indian judicial system which is not a rarity in our country. When Vicky is shot dead at a party (now that is extremely rare for it to happen here in our country) celebrating the verdict, six suspects emerge: a Bollywood actress, a tribal, a petty thief, an American visitor, a bureaucrat and a politician. Each has a motive, each has a gun, and each one's life is filled with coincidence.


Vikas Swarup is good but not at his very best...that's how I felt. Though..the book is readable and sometimes doesn't fail to amuse you but what struck me hard is the way Vikas Swarup smartly and brilliantly encompasses modern India's many issues in four hundred seventy pages. Terrorism, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, and endemic institutional corruption and lots more. Well...that's obvious as it comes from the position he holds for Indian Govt.


If you want to have a good time pass....and wanna watch an indian bollywood movie through a book...then this a book for you.

My Ratings are :  * * * and half




2. Afterwards by Jaishree Misra 



Jaishree Misra is one of my favorite author for the way she weaves complex emotions into the plot of her books with an ease that they straight away seep through your heart.


Well  this book tells us a story, set in the backdrop of Kerala and London, of a failed marriage....love of a man for another man's wife....their burgeoning relationship followed by, in the end, loss of lives  and the flood of excruciating emotions that one goes through "Afterwards".


My Ratings are : * * *