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, …
Read More »Writing and Psychology: What happens when you write?
As a writer, I know what goes on in my head… I think – even though sometimes I don’t even know what goes on in the awe-inspiring thing I call as a brain – but I think I have a bare minimum idea of how I come up with characters …
Read More »Virtual Reality: A Lay Man’s Perspective
The influence of the virtual world in our real world can be seen in any setting you go to. For instance entering a place such as a restaurant, you see most of the people are busy taking selfies, others “checking in” on the location and few calling and texting about something …
Read More »Evolution of Ayurveda: From Faith to Commercialization
Imagine going to an Ayurvedic doctor and now you’re expecting a wise, old man – probably look alike of Dumbledore or Gandalf (just the Indian version) sitting on a platform under a tree, a few disciples below the platform and a couple of apprentices paying apt attention to the Vaidya’s …
Read More »Hitler: The Uncertainty of History
He held the rifle that pointed at me. A shiver ran down my spine as the cold barrel touched my chest, my thoughts whispered any last words I had. I was prepared, I was never going to see Germany again. I puffed my chest showing I wasn’t scared but my …
Read More »My Take on Satire: A Lesson on Disillusionment
Phew, found it harder than I would have thought to write up a satire! The first question in my head was what I would write about? I mean, it’s not like we have a wide range of satirical things to write about in the society, do we? The roads are all well-built, …
Read More »Series in Focus: Sherlock- Into the Mind Palace of a Sociopathic Genius
It was on my sixteenth birthday that my cousin gifted me a collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The thick book with small text caught my attention, but it did not capture my attention as much as BBC’s series Sherlock did. The dynamics were of course taken …
Read More »Unconventional Foods #8: The Many-Faced Pani Puri!
Party means snack time. Party for thirteen-year-olds means that they are hungry and are quite impatient for food. This is one thing I realized on my thirteenth birthday. Another thing that I realized was that desperate thirteen-year-olds if left without food for a while can indulge in some productive creativity …
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