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			Name: The 3 Mistakes of my life Author: Chetan Bhagat Publisher: RUPA & Co. Price: Rs.96/- Category: Indian Writing Review: This book is on religion, business coupled with cricket. Govind the businessman gets ready to annihilate himself after erring to 3 nos in his life that he considers the mistakes donned. This tale starts with the suicidal attempt redirected through a mail. Govind portrayed as the business man is good at numbers who aspires to start his entity. On those lines Govind is when the earthquake knocks down his new shop before it could open to public. This is was the kick start mistake. The play travels to Australia when Ishaan tries to perk up Ali his disciple into a different league. Life twists when Govind the Math genius meets Vidya, Ishaan’s sister. He lands up betraying his friend Ishaan by romancing Vidya wrecking the limits that spot the second mistake of his. With Govind’s intrigue romance with Vidya and Ishaan’s passion on cricket the story twists with some religion brawls between the Hindus and the Muslims. The third mistake peeps in at the end of the religious battle where Ali’s wrist gets a bang when Govind comes to rescue trailing by few seconds. The author by his pale conversational dialogues keeps the pace of the story racy. The narration too was rib-tickling.

			Name of the book: The White Tiger - 2008 Booker Prize Winner Author: Aravind Adiga Publisher: HarperCollins Cateogry: Fiction Price: Rs.395/- Review: “The White Tiger” is the journey of Balram Halwai, son of a rickshaw puller, from being a help in a tea shop, to being a driver, then a murderer and finally an entrepreneur. It talks about two Indias. One India faces the light with sky scrapers, posh malls and with advanced technologies, a perfect urban life. The other India where the rich and fertile paddy fields along the great rivers depending on agriculture are still in darkness with defunct electricity poles, open sewage, stale food products and deprived of basic amenities. Even in 21st century globalization has failed to penetrate these villages. People live here in ignorance and total darkness. Balram moves out of the village to the city. But the corrupt city and the agony of being a servant tormented by employers makes this innocent lad filled with values to choose the law of the jungle –“Survival of the fittest” route. The city life in Delhi and the corrupt politicians are well captured. How he becomes self- centered and takes a crooked route to success forms the rest of the story. A racy novel, it won the Man Booker Prize 2008 for the debutant novelist Aravind Adiga. Well written; must read.