There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
Is Truth something set in stone or something shimmery seen differently in different lights? This is the question that Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya attempts in his novel: The Storyteller of Marrakesh.A young couple - the man an Indian, the woman a westerner - are seen walking round the Jemma on a particular day. Soon afterwards the couple … Continue reading Review: The Stroyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Ammi: letter to a democratic mother ‘…in the twentieth centurygrief lasts at most a year.’I have used this quote from the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet as a prelude to a small tale before I go on to the War in iraq. The reason I chose to use this quote is because I wonder how long … Continue reading Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s Ammi
"I had sought out my father because I couldn't live with the darkness of not knowing him."Absent fathers make for haunting presence. Think of Hamlet, Ghosts, and The Glass Menagerie.Aatish Taseer's first book: Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands is a young man's search for his father who like the father in … Continue reading Journey of the Self: Aatish Taseer’s Stranger to History
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