I was sucked into this book within seconds. Just reading the first few lines had shivers running through my entire body. And I was right to be. Because this book is one of the best contemporary fiction/romance books out there. While it lacks the historic aspects of ‘The Shadow Lines‘ it matched it in every […]

I love fantasy. It’s therapeutic, to be able to transpose myself into a new world. Peter and The Starcatchers written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is a fantastic retelling of Peter Pan in historic London and the seven seas. It is such an amazing story that despite being more a middle school book, it […]

“Feminism – the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.”      When Rama rescued Sita from the hands of the great Lankan Asura, instead of comfort and care for his wife who had just been recovered from a traumatic experience, he asked her to prove to him her […]

Everyone who knows me knows how interested I am in studying the Partition of India. (Read the pieces I wrote for my high school newsletter here and here.) It’s one of the biggest woes to me that we’ve lost so much culture by tearing the country apart, so many lives, so many stories. But Aanchal […]

So around 8 years ago I travelled to the west coast of the United States of America with my mother. And it was there that I discovered the beautiful entity that is Barnes and Nobles. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen. Rows upon rows of books and a seating area where we […]

As Editor of Vasant Valley Today, my school newspaper, I planned a special supplement for the 70th anniversary of Independence. I had a series of prose written crossing through time in 1947, 2017 and 2047 discussing a variety of issues, problems and progress through the century. I picked nationalism and communalism out of the hat. […]

I christened my sailboat With a bottle of red wine, That tasted like cracked glass And something more intangible. Perhaps, The tartness of Over ripe grapes On a vineyard in Italy, In a golden October, That grew out of My china cup. I set sail my paper boat And let it traipse lazily in my […]

I have been hearing so much about this book it’s crazy. It was all over my Instagram and all over my Goodreads and so about a month ago I was in New York and had a free day so I decided to buy it and go to town. I now know why this book is […]

She is the folkloric woman, Passed down from generation to generation. Body draped in a traditional kanjivaram sari Or perhaps those so finely woven In holy Banaras she is invoked as a Goddess Devi. Reigning from the time That Sita rose from the earth And Draupadi from the flames. ‘Staining’, The name of their husbands […]

This book is phenomenal. From the first page to the very last word, it is absolutely magnificent. My mother compiled Russian Fairytales for me when I was five and she used to read them with me helping me out with the big words. Reading this book feels like reliving those in a far more immersive […]