Inner Confines

Nice Men Finish Last by Pravesh Vir Siddhu My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb- Bad ones get into the pants, whereas the good ones get friend-zoned.Bad ones have a blast and the good ones suffer.Bad boys take it all, while Nice Men Finish Last.Nandu pays an unfair price for being nice; he is dumped by his girlfriend.Depressed by the brutal break-up, he follows in the footsteps of his womanizer friend Sattu, who firmly believes that nothing good ever happens to a nice man.Duly brainwashed to shed his lovelorn avatar, along with the skin of the nice man, Nandu gets a character reboot. Things change rapidly, as he uses lies and all the unfair means to score girls. It works wonders for him till he realizes how powerful karma is. That makes him come out of this transitional filthy state, choosing to become a nice man again.That's when he falls in love with Tanishq – a beautiful dentistry student.Will he be able to win her heart being a nice man or do nice men really always fi

The Colours of Passion: Unravelling Dark Secrets behind the Limelight by Sourabh Mukherjee My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - Within days of her fairy-tale wedding with Manav Chauhan, Hiya Sen, the reigning queen of Tollywood, is brutally raped and murdered. As ACP Agni Mitra investigates into the high-profile murder, he meets Neha Awasthi, with whom Manav broke his engagement to marry Hiya, Neha’s father Deepak Awasthi, who was eyeing business benefits through the alliance, Mayank Kapoor, an alcoholic model and Rituja Bose, the diva who had reigned over Tollywood over the past decade. When two more murders connected with the case make headlines, it’s time for Agni to find answers to perplexing questions and unveil shocking truths. The Colours of Passion breezes through Kolkata’s glamorous world of industrialists, movie stars, models and fashion designers laced with drug addiction and illicit liaisons, with a heart-wrenching tragedy at its core.  My views - T

Decoding Luxe by Mahul Brahma My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - Decoding Luxe is a definitive guide to luxury in India. It explores various facets of luxury brands, since the time of Royalty when India was the biggest customer to most of these brands. The book is a bible for all stakeholders of luxury brands - owners, custodian, retailer, connoisseur as well as student - helping them understand, formulate an effective strategy for conceiving, positioning, placing, promoting and pricing these luxury products. This book is also a myth-buster of the age-old holy cows which no one ever questioned. It is all about finding the magic potion for the brand's success with luxe in India, who always look for value-for-money or value-for-label. The book has received appreciation from Mr Ratan Tata, Dr Bibek Debroy, Mr D Shivakumar, Adman Mr Nirvik Singh, Mr Sanjiv Goenka, Mr Harshavardhan Neotia, Mr Kunal Basu amd Mr Sarnath Banerjee, among others. My views - Decodin

Why Should I Love You...??? by Kamal Paneru My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - This journey is of about an engineer and a small town girl who come close with a wrong number. Knitted in Haridwar, Srinagar and Bengaluru, this story revolves around love, hatred, betrayal, passion, dream and politics. Time makes them apart. Will they come close? Will they feel the same till eternity? Who would feel the reason behind loving someone? Let's come and dive into this heart-melting love story of Raunak and Juhi. My views - Why Should I Love You..??? By Kamal Paneru, Clearly an romantic fiction. I was impressed by author's flow of story telling, he had perfectly written the plot with mix of emotions and feelings. The story happens around 2009-12, A gripping teenage love story between Raunak and Juhi. Where Raunak is from a big political background and also a kind hearted intelligent college student who slowly fell in love with a girl he messaged in phone wro

The Weekend by Lovely Sharma My rating: 4 of 5 stars  Blurb - Underneath the rich spoilt brat, lies a broken heart. Underneath the attitude of a bitch, lies a lost friendship. This is strictly not a love story, but made of many small ones. It is a story happening over generations of bygone traditions and beliefs that still run deep in our society. The society that loves as well as fears the same things. As Akshya Shah runs to never look back at the disaster that happens, she collides with Deepak Shukla. While Akshya is running away from her future which has been set in stone by her parents, Deepak is running towards his aspirations set and supported by his parents. In a world of pretence, both are wanting to be grounded. It is a chemical reaction uniquely qualified to be tested. Friday brings down the pretences, but what will Monday morning bring? My views -    The Weekend by Lovely Sharma is an romantic fiction blended with love and friendship, I wou

Promises of a Firefly by Anupam Patra My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - A blind girl’s chance meeting with a stranger sets her on an unforgettable journey of love and light; a loveless marriage is rebuilt by the very thing that is meant to destroy it; an estranged mother’s fight to reunite with her daughter reveals to her the strengths and flaws of bonds of blood, two women separated by years of hostility discover the many forms of heaven and hell as fate decides to redeem their relationship; an eighty year old man’s chronicle of love and loss that tells us all about the permanent consequences of choosing against our heart’s will. These are stories of promises and letdowns, of faith and betrayal, of sins and atonement; stories that introduce us to lovers, bravehearts, convicts and prostitutes. ‘Promises of a firefly’ binds together eleven tales that remind us of our gifts, our glories and the crushing limits of our lives. My views -     Promises of a firefly by Anupam P