Sunday Sentiments

by Karan Thapar

Contains articles which are useful for anyone who is interested in creative writing and journalism.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2006

Reviews

[Amit · Rating 2 out of 5]

An ordinary collection of musings....Karan Thapar is an interesting TV interviewer, always probing, pushing his guests to a corner, delighting in embarrassing them. Sadly, though, his book is nowhere as crisp, as some of his famous on screen encounters.
Read only if you are his die-hard fan.

[Anil Swarup · Rating 4 out of 5]

The set of personal experiences make for an interesting read. The essays are short and crisp and keep the reader rivetted. The persona of the author also comes through in these essays. He holds no punches.

[Rohit · Rating 5 out of 5]

A peek into the time that was. Loved it.

[Nash · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mr Karan Thapar is an extraordinarily adept journalist. Good insights and instincts are remarkable in most cases. The book that he's written, or rather compiled, is a rather pleasing bouquet of his columns written for one of his papers. He comes across as refined, combative and yet unapologetic about his faults. And there's the nub of it. Reading his declarations, one gets the impression that he's not a rather easy mam to be with. He's stubborn and opinionated and that, in my opinion, makes his a lesser journalist. But then what do I know, right? May be it is how journalism is these days? Unapologetically human and fraught with its all too human foibles!? Maybe the days of objectively reporting facts is long gone? One feels rather sorry for Indian journalism, if truth be told. All the polish from Oxford or Cambridge will not gloss over your innermost biases which frankly, I feel, have no place in the writings of any established journalist.

[Barun Ghosh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit outdated now since most of this book contains articles from a Sunday column but its still a good read to know and understand how the author saw and envisaged things about two decades back which are part of the India we know today.

[Neha Sharma · Rating 3 out of 5]

For those like me who have, at some time in their life, religiously followed the regular column in HT, this book is a way to go down memory lane and refresh yourselves with the flamboyance of KT all over again.
For those who have no clue about what is mentioned above, read it for the fun of it, for you might never come across a personality so apparently arrogant, yet so extremely adorable as Karan Thapar.
Looking at the world from his window, you are sure to find yourself transported in a different place altogether, where good, bad, ugly and mysterious, all boils down to just one pure colour...Genius.