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Joy and Sorrow: A Bird’s Eye View
Joy and Sorrow: A Bird’s Eye View Oh little birdie!Every morn,I would wake up,To your melodious song,Of love and beauty. I often wondered,Wherefrom you learnt,To sing like this?Did you learn it on your mother’s lap?Or is it God’s gift to you? The Maroon and Red hues,Of your patterned wings,Like coloured fans,Help you soar high,And sometimes […]
The Witch In The Peepul Tree – Arefa Tehsin – Book Review
Title: The Witch In The Peepul Tree Author: Arefa Tehsin Publisher: HarperCollins India No of Pages: 323 Price: Rs 325 /- Genre: Fiction Link To purchase: The Witch In The Peepul Tree My Take: Pros: The story is about a murder that occurs in a traditional Muslim household of the fifties. Who murdered the daughter […]
My Name Is Cinnamon – Vikas Prakash Joshi – Book Review
Title: My Name Is Cinnamon Author: Vikas Prakash Joshi Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Hay House Publishers India No of Pages: 216 Price: Rs 279 Link for Purchase: My Name Is Cinnamon My Take: Pros: The story moves at a gentle pace like the slow and steady waves of a quiet river. Such waters are generally […]
Evoked The Lavasa Incident – Mansi Babbar – Book Review
Evoked The Lavasa Incident – Mansi Babbar – Book Review Title: Evoked the Lavasa Incident Author: Mansi Babbar Publisher: HarperCollins India Price: Rs 299 No of Pages: 216 Link For Purchase: Evoked The Lavasa Incident My Take: Pros: Right from the word go, the author has concentrated on only one thing, which is to maintain […]
The Slimy (Z)ombie
The Slimy (Z)ombie The next morning found Gayatri and Varun standing at the point near the river where the filming had taken place. The time was 6.30 AM, and the Sun was rising. Varun did not want to attract too much attention to what they were doing. He wanted to get it over with quickly. […]
A Voice From (Y)onder
A Voice From (Y)onder By the time Varun and Gayatri got back to the inn, it was 8 PM. They went to Gayatri’s room. She said, ‘We need to look at the last 5 lines of the verses to proceed further. They still don’t make sense to me.’ She pulled out the piece of paper […]
A Talk With (X)avier D’Cruz
A Talk With (X)avier D’Cruz Aravankolom was a small village and Gayatri and Varun did not have to travel far to reach their destination. The auto-rickshaw soon stopped by the side of a bungalow. There was a security guard sitting in front of an Iron gate. They paid the auto driver and walked up to […]
Deep (W)aters
Deep (W)aters Gayatri and Varun walked back to the inn. They went to Gayatri’s room. Varun asked, ‘So what do we do now?’ Gayatri said, ‘I think it is time we looked at the second stanza of the verses we heard during the seance with Loveleen. We need to unravel that now.’ ‘Okay let us […]
The (V)anara Bhaktas
The (V)anara Bhaktas Udayashree Patti sat on her chair rocking back and forth. She looked at them and asked, ‘Well dears, what do you want to know about our quiet village? I guess you know by now that during the times of the British Raj, it was called Aravankolom. Even now old people like me […]
(U)dayashree Patti, The Grand Old Woman of Aravankolom
(U)dayashree Patti, The Grand Old Woman of Aravankolom Aravankolom or Narnommalporom proved to be a quaint little village with a beautiful river in tow. Varun had already been there and seen the place, so he knew something about it. During the times of the British Raj, there had been severe caste discrimination in this quiet […]
