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August 18, 2022
My Meeting With Enid Blyton
Here I am sitting with my laptop in front of me on a Thursday evening, racking my brains for an answer to the question: who was my favourite author? You see, I am 56 years old, and I have been reading books ever since I was in my 5th grade. So, there is no definite answer to the question. But as a child, the books that gave me immense joy and unlimited pleasure were the ones written by En...
August 9, 2022
The Wait And Other Stories – Damodar Mauzo – Book Review
Title: The Wait and Other Stories
Author: Damodar Mauzo
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Price: Rs. 499
Link For Purchase: The Wait And Other Stories
My Take:
Damodar Mauzo’s book of short stories is a delectable potpourri of tales that evoke an array of emotions in the reader. The one characteristic that marks the stories is that the ending alway...
August 5, 2022
The Utopian Globe – #BlogchatterBlogHop
The globe in front of me,
Is endowed with colourful designs,
Representing continents and countries,
Rivers, oceans, and mountains.
It has a colour for everything,
We find in this bountiful planet of ours,
Which sustains life so reverentially,
Life, not to be found elsewhere in the macrocosm.
In this globe of mine,
There are several demarcating lines.
Each demarcated area represents ...
July 22, 2022
A Wish On A Star
They say time is the greatest of all healers. But I am a living example of the fact that this statement is not true. It was six months since my wife Reena died. In the past six months, I had done everything possible to get on with life. At first, I tried to drown myself in work. When that had proved ineffectual, I resorted to other things like spending a lot of time with friends and relatives. But n...
July 15, 2022
A Difficult Choice: Read or Write?
The question I am going to try and answer in this article is, “What would I pick up, given a choice between reading and writing?” We all know that as soon as children are enrolled in kindergarten, the first thing they are taught is the alphabet. I remember picking up my younger sister from school after her first day in kindergarten some forty-five years back. At that time, I was a ...
May 17, 2022
Azad Nagar – Laura T. Murphy – Book Review
Title: Azad Nagar
Author: Laura T. Murphy
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Price: Rs 299
Link For Purchase: Azad Nagar
My Take:
Pros:
The author is a professor of human rights and is an expert on the contemporary forms of slavery found all around the world, even in the twenty-first century. In this book, she deals with the kind of enslavement we see in India...
May 7, 2022
An Ode To All Mothers
The dark clouds hovering in the sky,
Burst with a loud and ominous roar,
Pelting the earth with huge drops,
Of pure water and heavy snow.
A woman walked with broken steps,
To find a lone corner or a war shelter,
To give birth to her baby girl,
Who wanted to come out of her womb early.
She had to keep the promise,
She had made to her little one,
That she would bring her out into the world,
Even if it ...
April 23, 2022
Rising:30 Women Who Changed India – Kiran Manral – Book Review
Title: Rising:30 Women Who Changed India
Author: Kiran Manral
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Represented By: The Book Bakers Literary Agency
Price: Rs 395
No of Pages: 271
Link for Purchase: Rising:30 Women Who Changed India
My Take:
This book comprises of biographies of thirty women who have distinguished themselves as luminaries in their respecti...
April 20, 2022
From Sarees To Stripes – Captain Manisha M. Puri – Book Review
Title: From Sarees to Stripes
Author: Manisha M. Puri
Genre: Non-Fiction, Flying
Price: Rs 799
Link To Purchase: From Sarees To Stripes
My Take
I chose this book for reading and reviewing mainly because I am keenly interested in reading about women pilots and the difficulties they face in a field dominated by men. A few years back when I was trave...
March 31, 2022
Zero Day – S. Hussain Zaidi – Book Review
Title: Zero Day
Author: S. Hussain Zaidi
Genre: Crime Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins India
No of Pages: 213
Price: Rs 299
Link for Purchase: Zero Days
Synopsis:
Mumbai is in a state of chaos. All traffic signals across the entire city have stopped working.
Shahwaz Ali Mirza, head of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, receives an anonymous email claiming it to b...
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