Tag: fiction

A data analyst by profession, Anubhav Shankar has finally decided to shed his dilletante tag and give his creative side an outlet with his debut novel, Fait Accompli, an edge-of-the-seat thriller which seeks to add a new niche to the Indian thriller genre.

The Lady In The Mirror is an excellent set of short stories exploring the human condition with all its flaws and neurosis. Author Charu Vashishtha addresses internal conflicts, unspoken words, greed, self-belief, subconscious self, love, jealousy, and freedom through the 8 short stories in the book.

If you want to read a gripping mystery/psychological thriller that will blow your mind, The Girl on the Train is the book for you. Well written with a very well done plot, “The Girl on the Train” is told from multiple (three) POVs.

The Palace of Illusions is no substitute for the real Mahabharata, of course, but it's a good place to start. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has taken one of the fundamental pieces of Indian literature and focused on the story of Panchaali.

Reading Catch-22 was sort of like watching a brilliantly shining coin flipping through a majestic parabola in slow motion, with one side representing laugh-out-loud comedy and the other an intense exploration of the terrors of war, making its way to the ground with the weight of someone's fate resting on whichever side it falls on.