The Extras - Kiran Nagarkar

Considering that we get maximum hits for Ravan and Eddie on this blog, it is only fair that we write about the sequel. The extras picks up from where the first one left off. Ravan is in love with Peita and Eddie has Belle and everything is well.. until their respective mothers decide that they don't deserve another free meal and throw them out of the house. Their musical aspirations take a nose dive and Ravan becomes a taxi driver and Eddie does a Praveen Babi from Khuddar. But as they say you just can't escape your destiny however glorious or dubious it might be.. so we have our R & E twisting with Helen and reaching out to Aasman and ultimately achieving what they have always known to be theirs.
It isn't as atrociously wicked as the first book.. but it has its moments whether it is notes on bus conductors making it big or the prohibition or the education system. Of course nothing yet beats the one on Afghan snow or "Mazee heart halt zale"

God's little soldier - Kiran Nagarkar

Most of the reviews that I had read before actually buying the book had actually quite dismissed the book, mainly because of the language and the crass comparisons presented in the book. Very few of them had managed to talk about the actually story.... which by the way I am not going to either ;)
Well, it is quite different from all the other books of Nagarkar; Not that you could typecast his writing in any way. But unlike his other books, this one gives an impression that somewhere along the line he was trying to "impress" the reader and write according to their whims.
Its a story of religious fanatic Zia-Lucens-Tejas who considers himself the God's little soldier out to bring discipline, peace and what not to the existing chaotic world and like most fanatics, everything is just black or white... Zia lives in a world of extremes. On the other hand is his brother, Amanat a strange combination of a writer, architect and an asthamatic... The book traces their world of love-hate relationship.
Its surely does not live upto the expectations of a Kiran Nagarkar book, but its not one that could be dismissed easily either!