Yes, God of Small things is for serious readers. I am serious about readings 😛 🙂

Yes “The WHite Tiger” bought many laurels and fame to Arvind Adiga!

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Yes, that was the name of Arundhati Roy’s book. It is not a book which everyone will like, but for those who do like serious and off the routine literary works, this is a good book(and award winning too).

Hi Peeush,

I have not read the book yet. If you/anyone have read it let me know how is it. I would read it then.

Wow, I did not know about the fact that the white tiger was his debut book wand Man Booker! I will add this book in my  ‘want to read’ list.

Thank you Peeush for your review on The White Tiger.

Yes, you can say English as your native language as you had your education in English medium schools. I did my schooling in Bengali medium till class 12 from a village.

By the the name of the book from Arundhati Roy is God of Small Things. If I recollect properly. Please confirm the same. I…[Read more]

Also White Tiger was a debut novel by Arvind Adiga and won him a Man Booker in 2008 on debut!

A big feat !

The White Tiger is about a private driver of a businessman in Gurgaon who knows a lot about his master’s life, including some adultery.

The story revolves around how this driver learns English secretly, has to get into jail to save his master,  then kills and gradually controls a big business empire himself through means, which even he inside of…[Read more]

However if we consider the fact that we have been taught English in schools right since our Kindergarten,  we can also think of English as our native language 🙂

Then I can count works like

The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga,

The God of Little Things by Arundhati Roy as works which I like best.

And for those who like instant,  entertaining f…[Read more]

Frankly speaking, while my school time Hindi was good, and I did use to read a lot of Hindi magazines like Sarita,  Saptahik Hindustan etc, the only worthwhile Hindi books of literature I recall were by my aunt and uncle who were into Hindi teaching in colleges. One was ‘Sita Ka Kanyadaan’ about current issues affecting common people in India.

Looks like a well written book.

Let me start this. One of my favourite book in my native language (Bengali) is Kalbela by Samaresh Majumdar. This is a tetralogy of Animesh. Uttradhikar which describes the era from 1947 to mid Sixties when Animesh was growing up as Kid. Kalbela is the next part which mainly tells the story of his college life and political activities with a sweet…[Read more]