The Blog of Small Things

                                                       Name : Inquilab : A decade of protest Author : Anthology , including Ramachandra Guha,P.Sainath, Kavita Krishnan among others Year of Publication : 2020 Genre : Non-fiction, Politics, Essays Rating : ** 1/2 (2 and a half stars out of 5) This anthology of speeches/essay has a common thread running through it : The spirit of democratic protest. The pages featuring Ramachandra Guha, P.Sainath and Kavita Krishnan cover patriotism, farmer suicides and women rights with clarity. Romila Thapar's erudite speech on nationalism is a must read for the Far Right fanatics who sell an exclusive creed of nationalism to malleable fools. There is nothing in the book which is already not available in news portals or newspapers to the discerning reader thus reducing its value.

Name :  One arranged murder Author : Chetan Bhagat Year of Publication : 2020 Genre : Fiction, Thriller-Mystery,Novel Rating : ** (2 stars out of 5) Chetan Bhagat keeps out of judgements on politics and relationships and restricts himself to a neat whodunnit with enough clues strewn along the way. Though the book is no patch on novels of this genre, Chetan's strength is setting such a novel in the heart of the aspirational and upper-class sections of Indian society thus inadvertently providing a sociological perspective.