STORAGE OF MIND

About Author : Vinod Kaul , multi-dimensional personality has completed his education from St. Stephen’s College and IIM. Confessions of an MBA is his debut work. Writing Style: 3/5   ‘Confessions of an MBA and Other Stories’ is collection of 8 short stories. Writing style is a good one but stories gave kind of a negative approach towards life and society. It is true that these stories depicts the reality of society and human life and heart, still the reading of stories turned my gloomy mood on. Literature is all about inspiring human life and society. Life and Literature follow each other and humans take inspiration from both according to situations. These stories did not provide any kind of hope according to my perception. Two of them grabbed my attention. The Rotund Man and Running through Heaven and Hell. Some stories also present the feeling of Diaspora, and the roots are found in Vinod Kaul’s origin. His feeling of Diaspora is presented well. Here is th

About Author : Amit Shankar, author of three bestselling novels: Flight of the Hilsa, Chapter 11 & Love is Vodka- A Shot Ain’t Enough, has now presented wonderful collection of eighteen awesome stories in ‘Café Latte’. Writing Style: 5/5   ‘Café Latte’ is a collection of eighteen unusual stories woven around our daily life. Different from the stereotype stories describing teenage love or idiotic stuff, which seems difficult to digest. ‘Café Latte’ comes a s a gush of fresh wind for those who are fade up with fictional yet non fictional biographies of IITans or Management students. Life bearing characters of Café Latte’s stories belong to different status, occupation and different mentality. The themes of the stories to vary from story to story. No single genre is focused here and that’s the most wonderful fact about this collection. It seemed to me like a Gujarati Thali, which contains all the taste in one single platter. The feature which attracts me the

About Author: Neilay Khasnabish, in his early twenties, is a B Tech and works at a Government Research Lab. His Scientific and creative writings were published in several magazines. The Agony of Love is his debut novel. He is working on his second novel based on backdrop of Kaziranga. Plot: 3/5  The plot revolves around life of a Bengali boy, who falls in love with a Bengali girl. In India, Lovers can be successful if they have same religion and same caste, in most of the cases. Both the characters belong to same religion and caste. Come from same status and education, their families are not rivals in any way, yet they face problems in their love life. Wanna know why? Then I recommend you this wonderful novel. Characters: 3/5 Srijan Ghose : Protagonist of the novel, who is well educated, who follows his heart and falls in love with very beautiful girl. For loving this girl, he is kidnapped by goons and tortured to death of self-esteem. Priyam Majmu