To Kill a Mockingbird
Yes, Harper Lee! I know what you want to suggest - whites are bad and they are racist at times. They come from a country which did not let the women vote for a long time. They come from…
Rafflesia The Banished Princess
Some of the fiction pieces are not meant to be mere fiction and they extend beyond being ones... they become philosophy, psychology, history and even autobiography of many people at once. I am lucky to have read a number of…
The Protectors of Aesner
Any person in the world must wonder how the messiah would look like. Every person in the world must acknowledge it he or she must have heard the stories which feature some kind of messiah who just swings around, does…
April is no more Cruellest
April wasn’t that cruel this year and ended perfectly. Yes, the warmth of March turned into unbearable heat; still, it was lesser than the feat which people achieved in April. April wasn’t that unholy this year, and said goodbye fairly.…
Who is a True Reader?
The question is - who is a reader in the truest sense? Is a person reader who reads five novels a day? Is another person the reader who reads only two fictions a year? Am I a reader because I…
The Quest of the Sparrows
I had a misconception a few days ago that every author with a 'Chetan Bhagat' background serves to the literature a 'Chetan Bhagat' class. However, like I said, it was a misconception only. To be honest, I did not read…
Awara: A Hindi Poem
आवारा हकीकत की जब कल्पना नहीं कर पाता हूँ फिर मैं मजबूर हो जाता हूँ इच्छित संसार के स्वप्नों में विचरण करने को स्वछन्द आवारा रोक-टोक मुझे पसंद नहीं ना ही किसी ने की है अब तक पर हाँ, खुद…
Confused Notion of ‘Great’ in Literature
The Notion of 'Great' and Literature What is the notion of 'great' in literature? The one that Aristotle says great? Or the one that T. S. Eliot says great? Or for some, the one that Terry Eagleton says great? As…
Patna Book Club – a spark of intellectual discourse
This Sunday, 4 April 2017, was quite amazing. Though I am not a big fan of food chains (be it big guns or the start-ups), because of peace and comfort, I was at the Cafe Coffee Day, Gandhi Maidan, Patna.…
Monsoon Minds by Ravi Nambiar | Review
My reading sense, I will say, can be soothed by only those few books which have something uncommon with them - a certain break free from the drab and a certain amount of 'that unknown' thing which can keep a…