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June 14, 2023
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
“Love is never any better than the lover.”
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison captures a poignant tale of a young black girl’s struggles in a white-dominated society and her obsessive desire for blue eyes, the symbol of white beauty, which ultimately drives her to the brink of sanity.
June 13, 2023
Thirty Summer Poems and Conversations about a Murder (Book Review)
“You live in illusions
~Thirty Summer Poems, Sabarna Roy
For you have confused dreams with
What is real.”
Dealing with some dark thoughts, poignant themes, intense emotions and morbid reality, “Thirty Summer Poems and Conversations about a Murder” by Sabarna Roy traces its way into the human psychology and winds itself round the thoughts that one’s mind conjures at some points in life.
The poems do not sugarcoat the reality but narrate it as it is, which is a striking feature of modern poetr...
June 12, 2023
Become The Better You (Book Review)
“There are lessons everywhere. Sometimes we learn early, sometimes it takes a lifetime.”
~Become The Better You, Phil Dass
Author Phil Dass make learning a little easier with his book cum journal “Become The Better You” which is written with the aim to inspire, motivate, persuade, provoke, maneuver, guide, push, persevere and help the readers understand the true purpose of life.
Knowledge can be truly powerful. And knowing the truths of life can make us a better person. The book bestows up...
June 11, 2023
Alone in a Boat (Book Review)
“I sail alone in a boat,
~Alone in a Boat, Sumit Tak
I hear a calling from beyond…”
Capturing the sublimities of life, “Alone in a Boat” is a poetic journey amid the soothing presence of nature, which feels just like sailing alone in the river of spirituality on a metaphoric boat while appreciating the little mysteries of life.
With an awe-inspiring preface that explains the inspiration behind the poetry collection, the book begins its journey of teleporting the readers into the lap of lov...
Love Storywallah (Book Review)
“The best things in life were to be enjoyed for free.”
~Love Storywallah, Kumar Ganesan
Love is the best thing that can ever happen to anyone. Whether it’s fulfilled or remains unrequited, love never loses its true essence. Rather, it’s in its wild mysteries that love finds its greatest contentment.
Author Kumar Ganesan‘s collection of shorts stories in “Love Storywallah” seems to capture that particular essence of love, one that leaves its mysterious trail behind for the lovers to cherish ...
June 9, 2023
Caged Tiger (Book Review)
“Setting citizens free is the surest way to create a robust and strong nation.”
~Caged Tiger, Subhashish Bhadra
India has come a long way from uprooting the British and establishing its complete independence. But in order to progress towards a brighter future, the country still needs to strive harder. India still needs something more to drive itself forward.
Author Subhashish Bhadra believes that it’s a strong institutional design that is the need of the hour if India wants to aim for a ro...
A Thing Called Destiny (Book Review)
“Often, destiny has its own plans for fulfilling our dreams most harmoniously at the right time.”
~A Thing Called Destiny
Destiny truly has its own tactics of making things happen in the most magnificent way possible. The book “A Thing Called Destiny” instills this belief in the heart of every reader who dares to journey through the novel.
Vidushi meets Vinay unexpectedly at a time when she is slowly trying to take back the control of her life. But it wasn’t destiny that played behind the ...
June 7, 2023
Butterfly in a Bind (Book Review)
“Her truth was not a fairy tale.”
~Butterfly in a Bind, Sheba Ghosh
The truth is always far more bitter than what’s apparent, than what one expects. And Sheba Ghosh‘s “Butterfly in a Bind” stands to prove that once again with its spine-chilling tale of a brutal murder which leads the path towards some harsh truths and crude realities.
An idol of Ma Durga washing ashore is not an extraordinary event for Kolkata. What’s strange though is the odd timing of the Visarjan and the fact that a bod...
June 6, 2023
Adopting a Plant on World Environment Day
Answering to the call of nature, we gathered on the evening of World Environment Day (5th June) to participate in a tree planting event at our locality in Rishra.
We had the help of a few kind people, who came together to donate a few trees from their own gardens and walked with us to plant them in different locations. Some locals have even volunteered to help us take care of the plants throughout the year.
With such benevolent people beside us, we successfully celebrated our special event “Adopt...
May 17, 2023
A Wrinkle in Time (Book Review)
“You don’t have to understand things for them to be.”
~,A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
There are so many things in the universe which we don’t fully understand. Magic. Miracle. Time. But then, they are also the things that fascinate us the most. And the book “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle offers one such fantasy tale where mystery, magic and miracle combine to take us on a fascinating ride through time.
On a dark, stormy night, Meg Murry, her brother, Charles Wallace and he...
