The last time I completed a book within a day, I was sixteen – then life found me and my reading time was considerably shorter. But the return of Harry Potter series in the form of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child required me to shut everything out and read. …
Read More »Harry Potter and the Little Girl: J.K. Rowling Tribute
On the occasion of J.K. Rowling’s birthday, here is a poem about how Harry Potter series influenced my life and changed me from being a fearful, lonesome introvert who was too scared to share her thoughts and ideas to a confident person who was able to write her own story …
Read More »Eliza’s Melancholy, A Woman’s Desolation
On the occasion of G. B. Shaw’s birthday, who was a remarkable playwright with sharp and often precisely analytic views about the society, here is a poem inspired by one of his characters Eliza Doolittle as a tribute to the phenomenal writer. What is my worth? Contemplating since birth Am …
Read More »Fiction and Escapism
When the screaming obscenities, I started to hear, I knew that the time was near, And soon I was held close to her bosom as a dear, “With you,” Whispered my owner, “Reality, I need not fear.” – For the love of books — Once upon a time, I …
Read More »A Sonnet for World Politics
The morning tea is never a quick fix, As over it, my dad and granddad discuss politics. From the England’s Brexit heirloom, Trump’s insane hypothetical rules, Over Trudeau the population drools, Is politics really out of men’s room? Their promises ever so incandescent, But the worth seems simply evanescent. …
Read More »High on Writing
The last thing I remember is that I was in front of my computer screen, with the task of writing up the next chapter of the novel I am working on. I had an update promised for the next evening, a plot line scribbled in the worn out pink journal, …
Read More »A Mystery of Graves and Exorcism
It was in hot sweltering April that my regular client had come up with this case. I cannot elaborate much about the identity of my client. It comes under the confidentiality agreement that they had made me sign when I took the case. Under no circumstances, I was to share …
Read More »Distance Learning VS Traditional Learning
I rub my hands together, prepping for the speech, “Let’s start, shall we? Education – the necessary evil? Well, the debate about education versus street smarts can continue on for centuries, but a large amount of population feel that education is important for proper social functioning and growth. With the development …
Read More »Music Then VS Now: Rap Battle
It was a Reddit post comparing Beyonce’s Who Runs the World And Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody One was a pop-queen repetition, Other seemed like a lyrical beauty , Made me wonder how it all started, Through which stepping stones was music’s evolution? Often I have heard elders say, the true music …
Read More »Community: Book Deals For Broke Bibliophiles
If a writer loves something more than writing, it is reading. I am no stranger to that feeling. Hailing from a small city with minimal people interested in English novels and fiction, in general, I had not many options for buying books, until, I learned about online books but still, …
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