Praveen PalakkazhiPadmarajan’s Innale and a RetrospectiveThis review is also published at…Jan 19, 2021Jan 19, 2021
Praveen PalakkazhiA tale of two half-lives“Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides’ ‘Middlesex’ is a story which is timeless in its theme and structure,” writes…May 27, 2020May 27, 2020
Praveen PalakkazhiThe Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley — Book Review“If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney — that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny…May 12, 2020May 12, 2020
Praveen PalakkazhiThe Underground Railroad — Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead was a much-feted addition to the literary canon on erstwhile slave culture and its…Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020
Praveen PalakkazhiA Curfew in the Age of Corona.The silence of the Outer Ring Road is deafening in itself. Ever since we moved into this flat located bang on the ring road, the sound of…Mar 22, 2020Mar 22, 2020
Praveen PalakkazhiAn obsessive quest into the ordinary mysteries of life‘It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken’ by SethOct 20, 2019Oct 20, 2019
Praveen PalakkazhiThe quintessential South American novel“Out of the South American auteurs I have read, including Marquez and Bolano, it is Vargas Llosa who strikes me as the most enduring,”…Jan 4, 2019Jan 4, 2019
Praveen PalakkazhiA Fine Balance — Rohinton MistryThis is also published on my Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/851584737Jan 12, 2016Jan 12, 2016