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Who am I to judge a book written out of tortured life experience? I recently read Heather Morris’s “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” which is based on the experiences of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who survived the Holocaust. I never write book reviews, unless it’s fiction and is horribly well written or the opposite. Ha! The book …

Have you ever got a book hangover? I am having one as I write this blog post. Maybe it is normal, to feel melodramatic and thoughtful, to scrutinize some aspects of the book and the fates of its characters. Maybe a soulful book is supposed to make you suffer from a kind of withdrawal. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak could make anyon…

It's late at night. My eyes felt drained and heavy. Shutting the laptop wasn't a choice, the work kept piling and it was almost never-ending. I decided to take a power nap. Sleep seemed more important and I felt my pillow could pull all my stress away. As I started slipping into a nice deep snooze, I heard a jolt near my cup…

I am someone who mastered the art of tree climbing. My cousins and I could have got into the circus if we pursued it! Laugh, all you want. But yes, we were quite the daredevils. 2020 started badly, but it ended beautifully for me personally. Reason?- I hopped on a zip line. What is a zip line, you may ask? It's nothing big, jus…

Wondering where to hang out this weekend? Head to  Ealakka Retreat , a heavenly abode amidst a Cardamom farm. Ealakka Retreat Cardamom I might sound like clickbait, a useless advertisement lurking on your screen, but believe me you don't want to miss this view of Idukki dam. View of Idduki Dam from Ealakka Retreat I was at E al…

Are you looking for a quiet place to breathe? A place to drown all your worries and attain total calmness? Visit Palakkad, the land of paddies and western wind! Popular for its unending paddy fields and November wind, Palakkad, or Palakkatussery (as it was once called), makes Kerala the true 'God's own Country'! Here I h…

Onam in the times of Corona! Onam, Kerala's festival of harvest, is facing a big gloom again. What should have been all about festivities, Malayalees around the globe will have to stay indoors, with no pookalam drawing competitions or ancestral visits, our times are sad indeed. But! This 2020 Onam can still be fun. Why not get …

It's International Dog Day! Every day is someday, but our furry friends deserve a lifelong celebration. Our family dog Tippu passed away two weeks back. He was a cross-breed of dachshund and labrador and he was the most adorable creature in the world. This is a post remembering Tippu, his quirky charming nature. Tippu looked lik…

My ever favorite book will always be Murakami’s ‘Kafka on the Shore’, but it's not much of a “life-changing book”. Now literature and its purpose may not be very deep-dwelling for people who don’t take an interest in literature. Because its not just the self- help books that teach us, stories can also maneuver a reader’s life. I…

Reading   Little Women  is like taking a stroll through the New England countryside. A classic, this book can be shelved in different slots -bildungsroman, semi-autobiography, children's literature, and even in feminist studies. The novel is oozing with maternal and sisterly warmth, it can be called the "Book of Tenderness&…

I sit smiling staring at the happy leaves waving Coconuts hanging leaves tight like tiny pony tails Happy branches wet and weary cleaning deep rugged skin I watch with warm dry eyes with rainy scene inside All the dancing coconut call me out a dozen in each dozen But I sit smile and stare at the happy leaves waving

Now that's something everyone would gladly signup for! Who doesn't love road trips, leaving all your city baggage to chill under the mountains? Here I present to you our exciting family road trip which started in Delhi, passing through Manali , Spiti , and Kibber , to name a few. For almost eleven days in and out of it, che…

For the ones who found the title familiar, yes it is actually  On His Being Arrived to the Age of Twenty Three ,  the sonnet by John Milton , a 17th-century British poet, whose works have eternal value and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. While Milton is best known for his great epics and sonnets,  On His Being Arri…

Has anyone ever felt that? Reading as a solitary thing, a lonely affair in which you are physically alone but mentally with the characters or ideas in the book? …

Today is the last day of another eventful year. At this hour, all over the world celebrates the coming new year, saying goodbye to 2017 by counting down its last few hours and hopefully welcoming the new days of 2018! The New Year Resolution has been a failing tradition, but why? Next year, a new year, a new me and better time..all …

Image Source: Wikimedia Commons How does it feel to let go and run away from all the restrictions? To walk away from those rules your parents taught you to make you a well rounded disciplined and responsible adult. Let me tell you this, the boundaries they drew for us has its reasons- foremost one being safety. But to forget all tha…

This is no book review, but more about finding myself in a character. No. She is no Elizabeth Bennet or Hermione Granger, but the lesser-known Skeeter Eugenia Phelan of THE HELP by Kathyrn Stockett. Most of you may have never heard of this book, or not seen the movie (Emma Stone plays Skeeter FYI) but she is the first fiction I can …

We stood around us guarding green and golden all day long used to be couple of pun now not much no, are we? Sharing thoughs and concerns, those days were glorious childhood gays.

We stood around us       guarding green and golden all day long Used to be couple of puns        now not much, are we? Sharing thoughts and concerns, those         days were glorious childhoods gays Now I think of us, grown           in different ways . You and I have changed             may be for the best, is it? Caring scaring an…