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Can’t quite pull off the trick of stripping small-town India’s facade of apparent mundaneness to find something more engaging.
Magazine | Nov 09, 2009
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A superficially clever work by a bright author with much better work in store.
Magazine | Sep 28, 2009
Review
This entertaining debut novel works not as a cricketing tale but as an entirely enjoyable romantic comedy
Magazine | Sep 22, 2008
Review
Chetan Bhagat's latest shows the first stirrings of maturity, but the gruel is thin enough
Magazine | Jun 02, 2008
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Why do corporate types assume the tedious details of selling confectionery or detergent are as deeply fascinating to readers as it is to them?
Magazine | Mar 10, 2008
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A timely book that deserves to succeed and help establish the ground rules for understanding masculinity in its various forms
Magazine | May 07, 2007
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More than just an IIT memoir—a sensitive coming-of-age account. Lovely set pieces, but no central character does anything to grab the reader.
Magazine | Mar 19, 2007
Review
Drifts somewhere between bullet-pointed advisory and explanatory verbiage
Magazine | Jan 29, 2007
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Much like other IIM-lit, wastes early chapters in alarmingly self-congratulatory appraisal of the IIM grad
Magazine | Dec 11, 2006
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Wish she had brought her claws out. Instead the lady's intellectual baggage weighs her book down.
Magazine | Jun 12, 2006
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Succeeds as an account, both of a candid quest for true love and of a world that seems removed from the bright lights of post-liberalisation India
Magazine | May 15, 2006
Capital Letters
My midget-muzzled Madrasi submission to snouty Delhi: "You're bearable, even great fun. As long as I can cock my snook at you."
Web | Apr 07, 2006
Mumbai
With a little help, the city can be the next Hong Kong
Magazine | Apr 10, 2006
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A lesser writer would have succumbed to tear-jerking, but Grogan holds the humour and tells the story simply.
Magazine | Mar 27, 2006
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A fascinating insight into one of the world's most unusual and influential companies as it turns from being an anarchic people's favourite into a corporate giant.
Magazine | Jan 23, 2006
Reviews
The ideal book on Indian fashion would find a tone somewhere between empty censure and Sengupta's starry-eyed approval. Clearly this is not that book.
Magazine | Jul 25, 2005
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The first Pakistan travelogue for the 21st century Indian. Presents Pakistan objectively in a way that is hard for north Indians hung up on the agonies of Partition and the beguiling myth of Indo-Pak brotherhood.
Magazine | Apr 18, 2005
Review
What's a paper to do when politics is boring, business arcane and sports a pale shadow of yesterday's TV? Thank its columnists.
Magazine | Mar 14, 2005
Showtime
The overt horror denies it the noirish core of its inspiration. The real horror is seeing a little bit of us in the moral ambivalence of John Constantine.
Magazine | Mar 07, 2005
Profile
She may not like it, but Sania is India's new pin-up gal. Will her tennis live up to it?
Magazine | Feb 07, 2005