O โ€” Mini Review

Book: OAuthor: Zeina Hashem BeckYear: 2022Bookhad Rating: โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ โ€œโ€ฆallowed love to become so easy.โ€ โ€” ZHB One of my important learnings from my book review writing days is that a book does not exist in a silo. A book is an echo and it reverberates through the time it was written in. This is also... Continue Reading →

Twilight in Delhi – Review

Book: Twilight in Delhi Author: Ahmed Ali Year: 1940 Bookhad Rating:ย โ™ฅย โ™ฅย โ™ฅ โ€œIn dinon garche dakkan mai hai badi qadr-e-sukhan Kaun jaye โ€œzauqโ€ par dilli ki galiyan chhod karโ€ Published in 1940, this novel on the capital is a necessary addition to all the other books written on the city. Quoting William Dalrymple in City of... Continue Reading →

Poets and Poetry

Poetry is something that I never bothered much about until I was 14 or so. Like all first timers it was Nature that attracted me to the brilliance of poetry. Nature lovers have always written amazing poetry. To start with there is the all famous William Wordsworth. He wrote a lot of nature inspired poetry... Continue Reading →

Celebrating Rhymes

One of the greatest poets, ever, in my opinion, and many of you may agree, Robert Frost said, โ€œA poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought... Continue Reading →

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