Every community in India gets stereotyped by each other. When it comes to Bengalis, we have been stereotyped by our love for fish and rice, afternoon siestas, our political intellect, football, and Tagore. While I or many like me might contradict some of these stereotypical ideas, I feel very few
Category: Bookshelf
Kavita Kané’s Retelling of Women In Our Mythology: The Unheard Voices of Ahalya, Satyavati or Draupadi
Mythology fiction has been reigning in the list of bestsellers for the past few years now. From Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy, Devdutt Pattnaik’s mythological history, Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of illusions. Many distinguished authors have retold the notable mythological characters from their unique
The God Of Small Things: A Masterpiece Embroidered With Words
As a 15-year-old, I never knew books could carry feelings inside them. Among the hundred books my father had collected in our library, ‘God Of Small Things’ was one. I took a glance at the green cover and wondered if a book that looks as simple as this one can
Five Quintessential Dystopian Novels To Start With & Fall In Love With The Genre
(Continued from Part One) The previous part of this two-part article dedicated to Dystopian novels has hopefully introduced our readers to the crafts of these novels and how they make a reader hooked on the genre. In this final segment, I have shortlisted a total of five genre-defining novels that
The Bell Jar: An Unsettling Read & A Poignant Reminder That Mental Health Is Real
“Because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” About a month back, I was sitting on my terrace with a copy of Sylvia Plath’s The
Your guide to Dystopian Novels: Why They Are Appealing & Which Ones You Should Start With
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess,
Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own: An Essential Read for Everyone and Not Just Women
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” The most famous line from A Room of One’s Own functions as the thesis of the work which Woolf gave out in the form of various lectures. Woolf delves deep into the history