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The Bestseller She Wrote

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I am reviewing  ‘The Bestseller She Wrote’  by Ravi Subramanian as a part of the biggest  Book Review  Program   for  Indian Bloggers . Participate now to get free books! The book was well paced and well written. And certainly, Ravi Subramanian is one of India's better English writers. The language flows easily for Ravi and the story is viable. I must mention that I was able to complete the book in roughly 3 hours, which is generally a praise to the writer than to the reader. The characters play along to our author's tunes. Reactions are real, actions are melodramatic and are worthy verses of a crime thriller. I felt the characters though, could do with better building. Everyone's back story is too short and too light so some of them don't make an impact on you. A deeper understanding of why Maya left her job "for" Aditya is very important to understand how she reacts at later points in the book. How the friendship between Sanjay and Aditya evo

Four minutes and Twelve seconds

I watched Four Minutes and Twelve Seconds at the Trafalgar Studios and give it a 3.5/5 rating. Superbly contemporary, the story line is too obvious and yet too real. It's so obvious that the suspense is not really a suspense but then again you wish it wasn't too obvious because we invent fiction to make us feel like better human beings. You hope for the mother's sake that her son didn't do anything wrong. Then, you hope the mother would call the cops on her son for mistreating his girlfriend. Then you hope the wife would give up her husband's indiscriminate act of uploading the video online because he was proud of his son. You hope the girl gets justice. But it doesn't happen. Everyone calls the girl a liar because she is poor and not polished enough. Everyone believes the boy because he is economically better and scores well in exams. His parents protect his future and hold their marriage together for his sake. And the girl gets on with her life as best as sh

Roaring Trade

I watched Roaring Trade at Park Theatre and give it a 4/5 rating. Well executed, fast paced and exciting. Hilarious and thoughtful. And the actors were good, especially the teenage boy, and set changes were impeccable. That's why a 4/5. But having said all that, the story is terribly outdated. What spoon does got him fired in the play. In today's reality, he would be suspended while internal compliance teams and regulators look into the case and after fact finding, his case goes to court and most likely he to jail. The general sense of people and workspace is also about a decade old. Perceptions don't change!