Kevein Books and Reviews

Calling Sehmat is a spy thriller by Harinder Sikka; the book has been published twice since its first release in 2008. The story is about the Indo-Pak war of 1971, in which India played a major role in liberating Bangladesh from the clutches of brutal Pakistan. The story is staged against Kashmir and Pakistan. It is a story of a girl who goes by the name of Sehmat, she becomes an undercover agent to serve her nation, India, as well as to satiate her dying father’s wish. Recently a movie called Raazi is released, starring Alia Bhatt. The plot and story of the movie has been inspired by this book. Sehmat is a Kashmiri young girl – full of life and love – and also the ambience of her house is secular and patriotic because of two reasons. First, her father is a Kashmiri Muslim and her mother a Hindu. And secondly, her father works for Indian agencies (like RAW and IB), though he has relations in Pakistan as well. When her father is about to die, he asks Sehmat to serve the nati...

A Cage of Desires by Shuchi Singh Kalra is a chick lit novel which delves into the life of the protagonist Renu, who, by all ways, is reckoned as a burden on the society. On the other hand, she has to deal with acute loneliness despite having a family with two beautiful children and a husband. Renu is married to Dev for over fifteen years, but their marriage misses the spark of romance and elements of emotional understanding. The story is mainly staged against the middle-class society of Lucknow, a city in North India. Dev works in Sitapur – he stays there and comes home at weekends. Well, people come over Lucknow from there and other small cities, but Dev is doing just the opposite, and this thing pricks Renu. She feels bereaved of her emotional needs. Her husband is quite mediocre by nature; he cares least about her body and other emotional needs. Even if he makes love to her, then there is no passion in it. She is burning inside. To make her life more miserable, ther...

Three in a Bed by Ruskin Bond is a short murder mystery which directly or indirectly features the adventures of Miss Ripley-Bean. This story has been covered under the book Death Under the Deodars of Ruskin Bond. Number 13 is considered devil’s number in the hospitality industry. As the hotel Royal is quite old, it has seen its good old glorious days, now the owner Nandu has decided to replace iron stead beds with wooden box beds. Since customers often complained that iron beds made unnecessary noise when they make love at night. Wooden box bed is the solution. Nandu tagged room number 13 as room number 14. After 12, came straight 14. One day a couple on a honeymoon was given that room. In the night they came out running, complaining of a dead body, fully naked, lying in the bed box. Police was called and the matter was reported. From the investigation nothing came out. Since the boy was from Hissar – so both police sides ran for investigation but couldn’t find anythin...

Crime of Passion by Ruskin Bond is a short murder mystery which directly or indirectly features the adventures of Miss Ripley-Bean. This story has been covered under the book Death Under the Deodars of Ruskin Bond. The main plot of the story is about carnal desires. The question asked here is that whether we as humans can control the urge of sexual desire that arise within us from time to time. From the hotel Royal, Miss Ripley-Bean and Mr. Lobo see a bunch of nuns preparing for a school event. As Miss Ripley-Bean is a seventy-year-old spinster, he asks as why she did not choose to become a nun. Upon this, she replies that she was never a cut out piece for this kind of work. She is of the opinion that often nuns and monks have to suppress their real nature. They suppress their desires. Also, she cannot wake up early in the morning. In a nutshell, she is sensuous by nature. Well, to justify her assumptions she narrates the story of father Vincent who would live in a Sem...

The Last Attractor of Chaos by Abhinav Singh is a spy thriller novel. Three aspects make a novel worth reading and they are plot, time duration, and settings. Well, the time period in the novel stretches over two decades and its multi-place setting makes way for a tight, suspenseful framework for the story. And eventually a series of mysterious subplots make an impressive overall plot for the novel. The story opens up with a military exercise dealing with the transporting of a powerful nuke weapon KALI.x. Well, it is not an exercise but a plot to steal the weapon. The prime hacker in this process is Mr. Mehta from the IB department. Having realized the trap, he runs for his life, sends a message to one of his trusted colleagues, Shruti. But he gets killed. Initially you will sense that there is some male hero in the book, like of Hollywood movies or Alister Maclean books. However, the story begins shedding light when Shruti’s husband, Ashwin Rathore, is also get killed ...

The Daryaganj Strangler by Ruskin Bond is a short murder mystery covered under the book ‘ Death Under the Deodars ’. It is summer time and people and tourists from all over the country are swarming in and around the hill station Mussoorie. Miss Ripley-Bean lives in a small room of the hotel Royal. Mr. Lobo, the pianist of the hotel, is in discussion with Miss Ripley-Bean regarding news about seriel killer of Daryaganj in Old Delhi. Investigations reveal that he kills only rich business people and after killing he does not rob them of money or jewelry. In old Delhi, Daryaganj is a hub of publishers of books and magazines. And recently, a woman editor of a top magazine was found murdered – there was no note on her body and her jewels were intact. Then what’s the motive of the killer? As expected the Royal hotel becomes full of guests. The room beside Miss Ripley-Bean remains unoccupied most of the time. However, soon a guest fills that room. It has been over a month or so...

Burmese Days is one of the most popular novels ever written by George Orwell. It was published in 1934, clearly that time Burma was a colony of the British. This novel is staged against the colonial Burma, which was part of the Indian Empire ruled by the British. The story is set in the last days of the British colonialism in Burma. The book rose into fame because it highlighted that was something not liked by the British as an Empire, it covers the negative side of their rule on Burma. The protagonist of the book is John Flory, he finds himself in a very precarious situation. He is a lone character and he seems to be trapped within a larger system that is destroying the better side of human nature. Orwell describes the natives of that region as substandard people. The story examines the corruption and imperial prejudice in the Burmese society. It is often said that the novel is not inspired by the real-life events. The story is false, lacking truthful insights; however...