The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Abba of Whodunits
As all but the schmucks know, Sweden in the popular thinking is associated with three…
Reading Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell
If anyone in the world should understand what ‘cheap‘ means, it’s the cheapo Indian SOBs.…
Reading Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley
Having lived long years here, it’s our conviction that conservatives are sick (in the mental…
Reading Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir
In the last 300 years, India has suffered maximum pain on account of two reasons.…
Reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Angels & Demons featuring Tom Hanks is releasing tomorrow in the U.S. What better way…
Reading Men of Salt – Journey Through the Sahara on Camel-Back
In an age of airplanes, motor cars and asinine ‘reality’ shows, it seems there are…
How a Cook (Not Shah Jahan) Built the Taj Mahal
Life’s so strange. Stranger than we all realize. Actions of insignificant people in the distant…
John Cheever – Yet Another Homosexual Writer
As we were poring over reviews of Blake Bailey’s biography of novelist and short story…
Reading Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
Unless you’ve just landed here from some other planet, you know that Gomorrah is the book…
Reading John Grisham’s The Associate
We are just back from our neighborhood library having borrowed (or checked out as they…
Romance Publisher Offers Free Downloads
Just in time for Valentine’s Day (Feb 14), romantic books publisher Harlequin is offering 16 titles…
Sashenka; Stick to Non-Fiction, Simon Montefiore
Sashenka by Simon Montefiore (New York, Simon & Schuster, 2008) Seldom in human history has the…
Upcoming Book Reviews
Here are some of the books we plan to review on the SearchIndia.com blog in the…
Mills & Boon Calling the Asha Tampas of India
Pulp romance publisher Mills & Boon is settings its sights on India. All ye aspiring…
Quote of the Day – Aravind Adiga
Servants need to abuse other servants. It’s been bred into us, the way Alsatian dogs…