I was sent a novel that circled around bloodstained reminiscences of a war gone by – remnants of what it left behind both emotionally and mentally, and disturbed ex-militia up to no good – not my cup of tea, really. I love stories with a dose of gore, don’t get me wrong. The savage, fervent [...]
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Review: JFK
It is safe to compare the writing of a whodunit thriller to walking a tightrope – the writer has to achieve a balance between dropping enough titbits to keep the reader interested and not revealing too much early on. He then has to deliver a sucker punch in the climax. Debutant novelist Jhangir Kerawala succeeds [...]
Review: Argo
Argo is one of those movies I went to watch without having the slightest idea of what it was about. And that’s probably why the film is named so obscurely. Directed by Ben Affleck, the movie is a loosely based on Antonio ‘Tony’ Mendez’s account of the Canadian Caper operation. The entire operation was declassified [...]
Interview: Jhangir Kerawala
A writer of fabulous short stories and the creator of the Timpa comic series, Jhangir Kerawala now even has a novel in his kitty. Here, he talks to us about his book JFK and gives us an insight to his writing process amongst much more. Lipi Mehta: To start with, JFK seems like a very [...]
Review: Agent Vinod
Simply put, Agent Vinod is a story of a RAW agent who finds out about an explosion which is about to kill millions, and shows that he can go to any extent to prevent it. Now as far as the story is concerned, this isn’t exactly a novel concept. Therefore, the entire movie depended on [...]
