Kevein Books and Reviews

Romi and the Wildfire is a beautifully written novella by Ruskin Bond which, at the first thought, delves deep into the problem of wildfire that causes havoc in the mountains. While reading this story, you will come to know how disasters like wildfire or forest fire takes a toll on the life of hilly people along with animals and birds. During wildfire in the mountains, people shift from one place to another but animals are rendered homeless and for this reason they come out in the open, in the territories of humans, and then it all imbalances the ecosystem.

Coming to the main story – it opens with Romi, a young boy of around eleven or twelve, who has come to another village to obtain some important medical pills for his ailing father. It is the same village where he comes every day for his school, since his own village is limited to primary grade.
It is already evening. Prem, his friend and also classmate, points to the jungle fire in the east. He insists Romi not to go through the j…

If you ever wanted to know why we read books, then go nowhere and stick to this book. Let us take it a bit forward: people read books, especially literature and comics and biographies, for some or another reason. Only a handful of people get into books for the sake of pleasure. In case you are an ardent Ruskin Bond fan, by reading this book, you will get to know why he loved reading books and how those books influenced his life on the whole.

Every writer has to be a reader first and Ruskin was no exception to this proposition. Ruskin became a compulsive reader since an early age because he was born into that era when sources of distraction and entertainment were limited unlike today where we can sit before the TV set all day or browse the Internet untiringly all day and night.
To read and understand this book, first off you must know Ruskin’s history. Ruskin was born in 1933 in Kasuali of the British India. Since then he never came down to the plains – even today he stays in the hill…

What is it like to have a bad father? Especially to a girl child? An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma is not what you think; rather it is a tale of an unimpressive father or man who doesn’t realize the difference between the passivity of a crime and fulfilling his unbridled carnal desires.

Akhil Sharma’s debut novel – An Obedient Father – takes us to the squalid streets of Delhi and to the time when the country was about to see a major upheaval in its political structure. The main character of the novel is Ram Karan, a lackluster human being. He works in the educational department of government in Delhi. Though he is a government employee but his main illegitimate job is to work as a moneyman for his boss Mr. Roshan Gupta. The duo set the political tension as the story advances from dimly-lit gloomy rooms to political arena.
He lives in a small flat with his widowed daughter Anita and granddaughter Asha. His wife Radha died some years ago and all his brothers live in a village named …