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Reviewed Amazon

Really Impressed

I have been using Amazon since they started operating in India and have purchased innumerable products including some laptops and other high value items. The inventory of products is huge and eco system is reliable. Their customer care is awesome, if only for one reason, if you need to call them...Read more

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Reviewed Airtel Xstream Fiber Broadband

Outstanding service

I have been using Airtel for years and have found their service exceptional. If you are using Airtel Broadband, Airtel classifies you as a platinum customer and gives you priority customer care. I have found that once installed, very rarely there is any issue. Occasionally the speeds drop but in...Read more

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Commented on neelatrivedi's review

Spicejet 777 offer
SpiceJet

It was probably due to heavy traffic at the site that the ticketing was slow

Reviewed Makemytrip

One of the few that provides bus bookings

I have used makemy trip to book bus tickets, train tickets, hotel bookings and of course air bookings. In short most of their offerings. Along with tedbuss, makemy trip was one of the earliest to jump onto the bus ticket wagon. In terms of comparison, it is the same as any other travel site - ya...Read more

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Reviewed SpiceJet

Not helpful in troubleshooting

I would begin by saying that in an industry like the airline industry, one of the key differentiators is in terms of how you handle a crisis . Spicejet failed in the area recently while flying from bangalore to delhi recently, a wheelchair passenger was brought in he had some fracture in his leg...Read more

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Reviewed Ebay

Ebay is great if you need a refund

Recently I bought a blackberry handset from ebay. It was advertised as an unlocked GSM set, but turned out to be a CDMA set and was of no use to me I wanted to contact ebay about return the product and get a refund. The one hurdle I faced was getting through to customer care they offer three opt...Read more

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Reviewed Groupon

Great site to visit

I have used this site twice  I get a set of bargains and coupons every day from a variety of establishments, the range is quite diverse and varied and the deals are great. although crazeal is only an aggregation and the services are provided by third parties, the deals are negotiated very well a...Read more

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Commented on rockaclimba's review

Worst experience with vidarbha travels- no back up
Redbus

Redbus is just a single window ticketing service. The quality of the service provided by a particular operator like Vidharbha travels is not the responsibility of Redbus. They do providing a facility of rating various travel agents that they serve. This ought to be posted as a review of Vidharbha tr...avels and not RedbusRead More

Commented on kpramki's review

Not worth the name
ICICI Bank Wealth Management

too shallow and does not cite any example. looks more like a rant.

Reviewed Aircel Mobile Operator

Aircel is a good option

I shifted to bangalore about 9 months ago and needed a post paid connection. I went to outlets of docono, airtel, vodafone etc. I had limited id and address proof having just moved into the city. while the big players wanted a certain package of documents which I did not have, the aircel folks m...Read more

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Reviewed Hathway Cable And Datacom Ltd 

Hathway is good

I have been using hathway broadband in Bangalore for about 9 months now. my earlier experience with cable broadband was mixed, so I went for this with some hesitation. but I have been pleasantly surprised, the connection is stable, the speeds good and on the odd occasion when the service is down...Read more

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Reviewed Raj Travels and Tours - Mumbai

AC sleeper bus to Bangalore - not bad

Raj is one of the few operators running an AC Sleeper bus between Mumbai and Bangalore. Used them quite a few times. The bus is quite neat and well maintained. Punctuality is not great, but don't know how much of that should be attributed to traffic in both the cities.Staff were courteous and kn...Read more

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Reviewed Dying Banyan, A - Manzar Ahtesham

A Dying Banyan

Manzar Ahtesham’s original Urdu work “ Sukha Bargad” has been called a modern classic and has been ably translated into English under the title “ A Dying Banyan”. Set in the late seventies and early eighties when Islamic tendencies are on their rise in Pakistan and Zulfiquar Ali Bhut...Read more

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Reviewed Lesson Before Dying, A - Ernest J. Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying : Understanding Human Psyc

“A Lesson Before Dying” has the overtones of the modern classic –“To Kill A Mockingbird” with its storyline based on racism and the undercurrents of bravery of a few in the midst of the hatred of many. The book is set in a small Cajun community of Louisiana of the late 1940s and the ...Read more

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Reviewed White Mughals - William Dalrymple

White Mughal- A Blending of civilizations

It is to the credit of William Dalrymple that a book on whom research was begun in 1997 and was published in 2002 as a book of close to 600 pages with innumerable foot notes, bibliography and other explanations did not end up as a scholarly treatise gathering dust on library shelves but...Read more

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Reviewed Song Of Kali - Dan Simmons

Song of Kali --- Among the Kapalikas

“Song of Kali” is Dan Simmons’ first novel and was published in 1985. It is set in Kolkata in 1977 with the emergency as a backdrop. It has been categorized as a horror novel or a work of fantasy in most American reviews and has even been awarded the World Fantasy Award. However, the Indian read...Read more

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Reviewed Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy

Whitethorn Woods : A Story wapped as a Fable

“Whitethorn Woods” by Maeve Binchy is an extremely readable book once you get used to the fact that it is neither a traditional novel nor exactly a collection of short stories. The first few chapters seem to be a bit disjointed and there is a struggle to discern how the diverse chara...Read more

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Reviewed Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida

“Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name”

“Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” is a book as lyrical in its content as its title. More so perhaps because it is largely set in a part of the world which is rarely written about – Lapland. Lapland of course is the mythical land of the Santa Claus, north of the Arctic Circle and the stor...Read more

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Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Well this is the kind of book with so many characters that you sort of have to read this at a stretch. Otherwise you lose the thread. The author does a pretty good job I must say.

Reviewed Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Empire Falls is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Richard Russo set in a town by the same name in Maine. The book which flits back and forth between the present and the past and captures the small town class hierarchy of a small town has tragedy woven right through every one of its main characte...Read more

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