Book Review: THE DRAMATIC DECADE : The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee

The dramatic decade attempts to uncover the dramatic events of 1970s in a undramatic fashion. Book this book, despite coming from a person deeply involved in the political events of the country, fails to uncover the relatively unknown aspects of the decade. Rather the author has relied on parliamentary records, articles of some renowned newspapers to substantiate his point, consequently the book appears more of an unbiased academic piece of work rather than a story by an insider. 

The book also straddle across different time frames which might make the author confused in some occasions. 

It is an average read. Helps you to look at the political events of 1970s from Congress's point of view. However the book stays away from all possible controversial episode making it bland. 

Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot, a detective with sharp mind tries to unfold the mystery of a murder that takes place inside a train. Unlike an usual murder investigation, here the detective as limited avenues to assess the case as the train is cut off from cities and has come to halt due to heavy snow. 

Agatha Christie has described the details of the case and the one by one interviews of the possible suspects. The characters of the novels have their own peculiarity, but they have a commonality which is discovered by the detective. On the basis of the interviews and the evidences available Hercule Poirot draws several possible logical conclusions which end up in two possible explanations of the murder. 

The book is a good classical novel