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- Book Review: Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Pirate Latitudes reminds you more of Eaters of the Dead or Timeline (minus the time travel aspect) than Michael Crichton’s...
- Book Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
If ever there was a book which personified conspiracy theory version of Poe's law, "The Men Who Stare at...
- 30 Second Summary - August '09 Edition
In today's busy world, the attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. In the world of information superhighways and consequent...
- Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Continuing the tradition started with Order of the Phoenix, I went ahead and watched Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince almost a...
- Harry Potter in Technicolor, with Bollywood Masala
With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince coming up (and G. I. Joe not up any time soon), I am...
- Movie Review: Angels and Demons
Once again, it’s time for lost religious treasures, Secret Societies and Harvard Symbologist Prof. Robert Langdon to the rescue.
- Marcus Didius Falco: The Oldest Living Detective
After a (not so) brief break from the Desi Detectives series, we are back with the non-desi detectives. And...
- Heard the Divine Music of Love Lately?
Recently, I was waiting for a bus when a car stopped near me. A beauty looked at me, and smiled... ......
- The Lord of The Rings is a Bollywood Movie
Just a few days back, I was talking to a friend who was ranting about the hindi movies, and the...
- Book Review: A Soul of Steel by Carole Nelson Douglas
If asked which one person we would have liked to see again, true Holmesians would vote for Irene Norton née...
- Book Review: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
The greatest trials of the literary heroes come when they are faced with their intellectual equals. Like Sherlock had Dr....
- Book Review: Churchill's Triumph by Michael Dobbs
While the war started by Hitler was knocking on his doors, the three most powerful men in the world met...
- Book Review: Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the major turning points in the history of Europe, indeed the...
- Movie Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is one more fantasy movie...
- Reading Tintin - The Thin(?) Line
I finally got my hands on the elusive Tintin comics, "Tintin in the Land of Soviets" and "Tintin in the...
- Short Fiction: The Relic Hunter
He stood watching, surrounded by the ruins.Behind him lay the path he had covered, tortuous and half covered...
- Some More TV Detectives
I want to finish up the "Desi Detectives" series with a few TV detectives I didn't cover last time, starting...
- Movie Review: The Golden Compass
This seems to be the year of movies based on books. Considering the popularity of corresponding books, The Golden Compass...
- The New Updated "Spamming 101" - Part II
The successful candidates who finish Part I of the "How to Spam: Spamming for Beginners" course will graduate...
- The New Updated "Spamming 101" - Part I
It's been an year since last time I gave you the sneak peek into my course "Spamming 101: Tips...
- One Star Out of Five, Anyone?
Yesterday, I was talking to a fellow blogger friend about his blogging experiences. He is an aspiring writer with a...
- Short Fiction - Studio 14
"Hello, and welcome to tonight's episode of Studio 14 on the Nightmare Street. A short history before we commence our...
- Book Review: Mrityunjaya by Shivaji Sawant
Most of the children in India grow up listening to stories in the Ramayan and the Mahabharat, if not in...
- My Top 5 Sci-Fi Series
Since the list of "My Top 5 Fantasies" continues to be extremely popular (well, second spot in “Hall of...
- Book Review: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
When I saw the trailers of the movie (and then saw the book), I was expecting something like Narnia or...
- Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Twelve hours after I started the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I knew almost all the answers to almost...
- Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
If you still believe that the Harry Potter series is for kids, Harry Potter and the
- Book Review: The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi
In The Last Cato, one of the most cherished Christian symbols is being sought after by the members of a...
- Book Review: The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Have you ever felt like you are living in a book? Did you ever think that the feeling of deja...
- Book Review: The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
A thief steals some valuable and portable items from the library of the famed 12th century geographer (cartographer, linguist, scholar,...
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