Vikram Chandra
1) Sacred games
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Now a Netflix original series
"SACRED GAMES [is] as hard to put down as it is to pick up."
- New York Times Book Review
"Bold, fresh and big…SACRED GAMES deserves praise for its ambitions but also for its terrific achievement"
- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air.
Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh-and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism,...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Hindi
Description
When a young boy is orphaned during a violent attack on his home, he is adopted by the officer of the raid and his loving wife. His dream life with his new parents is shattered when he discovers that the man he calls father was the task force leader responsible for murdering his parents. After ten years he returns home, an instrument of destruction on a mission of annihilation, revolution and revenge.
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