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Traveling, again
The paradoxical desire to seek adventure far from home and then rejoice in returning to the familiar is peculiar to the human condition
Meeting Readers in Real Life
It was the middle of the afternoon in the middle of June. As my airplane landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, the pilot welcomed us with the announcement that the outside temperature was 45 degrees Celsius. What! Was that true? Is it even...
Book Reviews – How Education Impacts The Lives of Women
For some weird reason I found myself reading two books simultaneously. Both were based in the US, featured female protagonists and had an underlying theme of education. However, that’s where the similarity ended. The first, Educated by Tara Westover was a...
Midyear Review – Reading, Writing and Other Projects
Like last year, I am using The Goodbye 2021 Hello 2022 planner this time as well. However, I didn’t do such a great job of updating it at the end of the first quarter. However, I sat with it over the weekend to do a mid-year check-in. Bookish adventures Every...
What We Count and What We Collect
Now that July is here, it is clear that half of 2022 is gone. That’s 26 weeks done and dusted. Earlier this year when I read Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, I was struck by how we measure our life quantitatively. Our existence on this planet is counted...
Book Review – When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The book stood silently on my bookshelf, awaiting its turn. Perhaps it heaved a sigh every time I picked something else - a glossy new read from the library, a highly recommended audiobook or even a classic. I love memoirs yet I hesitated to pick this one. Why?...
Author Interview – The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi
The Reluctant Mother by Zehra Naqvi The Book: The Reluctant Mother is a book of rage. Rage at being alone in your pain, having your conflict belittled, and your struggles trivialised. It is the story of a young woman who seeks to find herself in a world that...
Why Awards Should Not Be The Measure of a Book or it’s Author
When Arundhati Roy shot to fame after her novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize, I became a reluctant observer of the excitement that follows when Indian authors are nominated for grand prizes. I was living in the USA when Roy won the prize. Given that...
Reading Adventures With Unusual Protagonists
Ever since I discovered audiobooks, I have galloped through my reading list, particularly the fiction section. I typically choose books with female protagonists. Biased? Perhaps. But I find the lives of women more multi-dimensional and therefore more...
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