books

We all have certain favourite fictional characters and it is not that you get to meet their namesakes every day. But, once you do, do you compare them with their fictional counterparts? Do you have an image in mind for every character you have read in books? So, is my…

Shubha Vilas Ramayana Review

We have all grown up listening to stories from Ramayana to an extent, we have internalised the idea of good and bad vis-a-vis the characters from these epics. In fact, there is a certain bias between the two epics — Ramayana and Mahabharata itself. While being a literature student, I have always been critical…

Book Review The Best Seller She Wrote

There are a very few times when you read a book and you do not even feel like you are reading one. “The Bestseller She Wrote” by Ravi Subramanian is one such book. It is an experience (not exactly a great one), though predictable narrative, fast-paced with real-life people, situations and spaces. Why…

Riddhiculous the little prince

“All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince I have always been confused, if reality sprang from imagination or imagination makes reality happen. My first brush with imagination happened when I was four and my sister narrated me the…