Shawn Vij’s debut title Moral Fiber has done more than one could have expected from the first work by any new author to do. This might be because Shawn Vij is an established brand in the business industry. However, is that enough for a book to become a bestseller or do exceptionally good? Perhaps not! We have to accept, reluctantly or willingly, that the content of the book matters more than anything else in terms of book’s success and Moral Fiber has wonderfully been written with a theme which authors do not touch very frequently. Shawn has written about business ethics, one’s personality and ..read more

USAma: Is USA the World’s Largest Terrorist?  This is the title of a very popular book, and also a much-debated one, written by famous non-fiction author from India, Amit Bagaria. The author has written this book with a pre-occupied and pre-conceived notion that USA is more a sinister entity than Osama Bin Laden or many deadly terror organisations in the world. It’s shocking, isn’t it? However, I had to read the book so that I could tell the readers of The Book Blog whether they will have an interesting read or not. So, here is my review for this book by Amit, one of the most famous non-f ..read more

Though the book is old, it does not take away many things that are working as the white hat SEO practices to make your website very famous on the Google search result pages or SERPs. The good practices are still good practices and one should know about those if one wants a website to come to the top of Google search results. So, what am I talking about? Why am I talking about these things today? I want to let the readers of The Book Blog know about a book that can teach you the basics of SEO without visiting any institute or paying heavy amounts to learn these basic and advanced skills. In thi ..read more

Literary Occasions by V. S. Naipaul is a collection of a few long essays and also appended to it is the Nobel Prize lecture that we also know as the Banquet Speech. This collection opens the door to many facets of the versatile personality of the great novelist that we know. An Indian by heart and a Trinidadian by birth, Naipaul always kept his heart before his mind and that is why we see in his novels, the greatest and the average of them, many things that reflect Indianness. Yes, just like Indianness in Indian English poetry, we can also trace Indianness in Indian English novels.  The f ..read more