The great Indian festival
I was once asked to describe a festival. I thought for a while, and then replied, ‘Shopping!’ ‘What? Shopping?’ said this friend and raised a questioning brow. ‘Festivals are all about joy,’ I said, ‘they are as much about sharing as they are about buying. There is a lot of happiness being given and accepted....
Picture books are not always only for kids
Picture books are not always only for kids Review of ‘There’s a little black spot on the sun today’ One poem. Minimalistic illustrations. And along with Malo, we the readers also understand how pain can be communicated through the pages of a book. Pain is ‘easily said and quickly written’ but can be...
All it takes is one man! Review of ‘The Imperative Subterfuge’
To conceal, escape, or evade is certainly not what Rickie Khosla had in mind while writing this book. He hasn’t let any relevant byte of truth go unaddressed and hasn’t attempted to evade embarrassing questions. However, using ‘deceit in order to achieve one’s goal’ is brought out rather well and this is what writers need...
Facing the demons within. Review of Conversations by Rajeev Nanda
Conversations can never be answers. They can, at best, be guide-posts leading somewhere… within or outside the self and they can be desirable or undesirable, discovered or yet untouched, needless or vital for survival, or simply a place or a moment where you sit and let your breathe become normal before getting up and resuming...
If the world seems cold to you, KINDLE fires to warm it
Lucy Larcom was too busy penning her poems in the late nineteenth century America and was around a century away from what Amazon christened a Kindle! However, the modern day Kindle also kindles a fire and serves the warmth of books in a very affordable sort of way. It did so even in its earlier...
