Thinking of Ageing on a Summer Night

At 2:00 am N shook me awake. “Your father is in the closet. The light is out and he has been in there for a full minute”. The closet was a 2 feet by 2 feet vertical coffin. I rolled out of the boiling couch, my shoulders and neck aching and slick with sweat from... Continue Reading →

August 23, 2016 2

Evening Is the Whole Day – Malaysian Tamil Saga

I loved the book. It took me 3 days to race through this book. 3 days of pure plain imagined nostalgia. The writing is lush, the characters true and the commentary hardly exaggerated. Malaysia, Childhood and Tamils The book is set in the Malay region, about tamil immigrants in the 80s. I was looking for a... Continue Reading →

August 18, 2015 0

The God of Small Things – A Second Review

In my first review of The God of Small Things, I dismissed the book as unworthy of a Booker Prize. I was harsh in the review because I felt the book was not good. While I still stick to it, I wanted to address the content of the book, which while done to death, and is... Continue Reading →

November 19, 2014 5