Challenging Myself: Three Mammoth Books

I am challenging myself to read three books by 15th October. They have been on my TBR for a very long........... time and I feel that if I don't read them now, I'll never be able to read them. Mammoth books they are so I want to finish them before I get busy with Diwali …

Forgotten Book: Oil! by Upton Sinclair (1927)

Does it surprise you to hear that Big corporate houses fund an election or that industrialists pay bribes on their way to setting up Big empires? If my guess is correct, your answer is also No. These things are so commonplace that one doesn't even bat an eyelid when hearing about them let alone question …

Forgotten Book: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Imagine you are the one cooking for US President, Theodore Roosevelt. Then one day as you have served him  breakfast and are humming in the kitchen, you are told that the President has thrown out the plate of sausages. What will be your reaction - a quaking in the boots, palpitations of the heart, breaking …