Tag: #JaiSWrites
The Utopian Globe – #BlogchatterBlogHop
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 […]
A Wish On A Star
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, […]
A Difficult Choice: Read or Write?
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 […]
Azad Nagar – Laura T. Murphy – Book Review
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 […]
An Ode To All Mothers
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 […]
Rising:30 Women Who Changed India – Kiran Manral – Book Review
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 […]
From Sarees To Stripes – Captain Manisha M. Puri – Book Review
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 […]
The Ragpicker
The Ragpicker She stared at her face,In the tiny mirror.Gone was the youth,And the beauty of yesteryears. Her face was withered,Her hair was a riotous mess.She was clothed in rags,And scavenged for food. She still reminisced,About the glory days of yore,When heads had turned,As she strode across the roads. She had posed like a picture,For […]
Love In Wartime
Love In Wartime Dedicated to all the Russians and Ukrainians married to each other. As the guns boomed,and the tanks rolled by,a young woman,peeped out of her window. She knew,that somewhere in that thunderous melee,full of thick black smoke,her beloved was defending his motherland. All she wanted,was peace and harmony,and for her lover to come […]
Murder in the Bylanes: Life and Death in a Divided City By Aloke Lal And Maanas Lal – Book Review
Murder in the Bylanes: Life and Death in a Divided City By Aloke Lal And Maanas Lal – Book Review Title: Murder in the Bylanes: Life and Death in a Divided City Authors: Aloke Lal and Maanas Lal Price: Rs. 395 Genre: Non-Fiction Represented By: The Book Bakers Publisher: Bloomsbury India Link For Purchase: Murder […]
