Madras Medley

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20 Mar 2020

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson - Review by Abhishek Desikan

The first thing I realized after reading this book is that self-help books are not for me. With that caveat, I’ll ...
07 Feb 2020

The Goat Thief by Perumal Murugan - Review by Abhishek Desikan

The Goat Thief by Perumal Murugan was, for me, a delightful foray into short stories after a lot of non-fiction books. T...
02 Feb 2020

The Curse of Gandhari by Aditi Banerjee - Review by Abhishek Desikan

The Mahabharata is an epic that keeps giving food for thought on every new reading. Just when one thinks that we have le...
17 Jan 2020

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Review by Abhishek Desikan

What if I told you that here’s a book, which not only pulls you into a semi-fictional world set in early 1900s Sov...
26 Nov 2019

RESET: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy by Subramanian Swamy - Review by Abhishek Desikan

Subramanian Swamy’s latest book is as firebrand as the man himself, where he deals with one of the most discussed ...