Creativity
Books – My choice may not be your choice

Books – My choice may not be your choice

We are all as different as readers as we are in life. Not one of us is a clone. Like us, books too differ by way of authors, genres, writing styles, covers, titles, typography, plots, themes, beginnings, endings, middles, characters, incidents, and some of these differences may be there even in books by the same...
The book to read next

The book to read next

If you need to read a bookYou’ve never read beforeYou have to sometimes buy a bookYou’ve never bought before. A book will make you pick and buyOr click to place in your cartOr borrow from a friendly guyWith a big and generous heart. The blurb may reason hardThe cover may smile and callColors may be...
Leftovers turn everyday moments into masterpieces

Leftovers turn everyday moments into masterpieces

We know what ‘leftovers time’ means. No, not ‘leftover time.’ Not even ‘left overtime’ nor ‘left over time.’ The one that I am going to talk about is where left and over come together and the ‘s’ determines the direction that life takes. ‘Obviously, nothing to do with left wing or right wing in politics,’...
Crafting narratives from moments in life

Crafting narratives from moments in life

Do writers really need prompts? Why can’t they just look around and find something to write about? Something that tickles their imagination or causes their heart to flutter or something that flings a scintilla on yet unformed ideas and makes them burst into an uncontrollable conflagration. I remember walking from the mess hall to my...
Not every virus goes around like a gangster

Not every virus goes around like a gangster

Books keep a close watch on everything around them. That is how they learn impossible tricks. No, this isn’t a joke. Books, I believe, have an innate AI working for them and they know intuitively where to reach and when. And if you’re open to new fantastical ideas, books even encourage a reader to go...
Parallel platters that no one serves

Parallel platters that no one serves

It is easy to fall in love with the notion of parallel universes and I am no exception. This love story began way before I had read ‘Dark Matter’ by Blake Crouch and thus my imagined multiverses never had much to with regrets. They were full of titillating stuff as vacuous as imagination can ever...