Indian Book Critics

India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) by Major General V. K. Singh: Review

India’s External Intelligence: Secrets of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) by Major General V. K. Singh: Review - Indian Book Critics Some books attempt to describe intelligence agencies from the safe distance of speculation, journalistic reconstruction, and ideological assumption. Then there are books written by individuals who have inhabited the guarded interiors of these institutions and have witnessed their strengths, contradi...

Quotes from Books

“What you speak
and I hear, seldom matters
more than what we perceive,
and deceive
in attempts to survive.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra ()
(Thoughts Between Life and Death)

Death in Poetry and Philosophy: When the eyes are closed, the insight illuminates – The Final Note

Death in Poetry and Philosophy: When the eyes are closed, the insight illuminates – The Final Note - Indian Book Critics Once we accept death as the ultimate truth, all the lies become amusements for the sport we call life. This realisation, though seemingly bleak, liberates the human spirit from the obsession with continuity and permanence. It opens the consciousness to the profound understanding that all existence i...

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami – a detailed book review

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami – a detailed book review - Indian Book Critics Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls feels like a book written late in a writer’s life, not because it is tired, but because it is saturated with old obsessions revisited from a different vantage point. The novel returns to the “walled town” first imagined in his early career a...

“. . poetry interprets life, investigates various facets of it, and secretly courts death, wooing fancifully and willingly so that when the time comes, there is no fear.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra
(Death in Poetry and Philosophy)

the BOLD statement
(by Indian Book Critics(

“Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.”

~ Dr Alok Mishra
Poet, Literary Critic, and Professor of English Literature

Wishing you a joyous and sparkling Diwali! May this festival of Dharma’s victory over Adharma and vices, lights, crackers, fireworks and sound bring happiness, prosperity, and endless joy to you and your loved ones. Enjoy the celebrations with warmth and delight!

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”

~ Anais Nin

“He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”

Michel de Montaigne