Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
Harsimran Kaur On Aug 09, 2024, In Book Review, Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins Rating: 5/5 Freedom is impressionistic; a self-nudging propaganda that thrives to dominate the conscious to explore possibilities to be liberated. India found its independence; a day enchanted by loudspeakers burling of irrevocable spirits and building a staccato of importunate masochism. Who were […]
Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi’s Last Battle by Mark Tully & Satish Jacob Book Review
Harsimran Kaur ON June 10, 2024, IN Book Review, Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi’s Last Battle Rating: 4/5 Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi’s Last Battle by Mark Tully & Satish Jacob Book Review June 5th, 1984 – Innumerable devotees thronged the Golden Temple to pay their obeisance on the martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. The day […]
Why Bharat Matters By S. Jaishankar Book Review
Harsimran Kaur On May 20, 2024, In Book Review, Why Bharat Matters By S.Jaishankar – Non Fiction Rating: 4/5 Why Bharat Matters By S. Jaishankar Book Review Foreign policy initiatives are often seen as elitism where top echelons of government whirr a series of associations, some concretizing strategic benefits, and some often ripple in whataboutery turning the invidious into implacability. Why […]
KNIFE: Meditations after an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Book Review
Harsimran Kaur On Apr 30, 2024, In Book Review, KNIFE—Meditations after an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie– Non-Fiction Rating: 5/5 KNIFE: Meditations after an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Book Review Meditations begin with an assault to the mind. The mind that becomes the abattoir, indulgent thoughts proving to be a macabre; where do we then find sanity? Why are we […]
Waiting for Shiva By Vikram Sampath Book Review
Harsimran Kaur On Apr 25, 2024, In Book Review, Waiting for Shiva By Vikram Sampath– Non-Fiction Rating: 5/5 Waiting for Shiva By Vikram Sampath Book Review Religion is prescriptive. Religiosity is ambivalent, wiring a predominated consanguinity to be judgmental. If the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb had given less meat to his obscured incongruity and not used his religiosity as a casus belli, […]
Fire on the Ganges By Radhika Iyengar
Sunaina Luthra On Apr 04, 2024, In Book Review, Fire on the Ganges By Radhika Iyengar– Non-Fiction Rating: 5/5 How can we all be spiritually aligned to the divine? Has the thought ever signaled you to a path where panpipes screeching harmonious melodies from heaven beseech you to meditate on the creator, or the mortality issue is over casted by acceptance […]
Melancholy, Maybe by Jiel Narvekar
Harsimran Kaur ON Mar 12, 2024, IN Book Review, Melancholy, Maybe by Jiel Narvekar Rating: 4/5 The idiosyncratic styling of the mind is like a hedgerow where a plethora of emotions and virtues take shape. They are often violated with an over whelming impulse to steer ahead in propriety or perhaps sometimes find an impulsion to take a righteous course. […]
What Does JD Vance mean to Cat-Corner Women?
ByHarsimran Kaur August 4, 2024 I usually go by the ingenious claim of ‘curiosity killed the cat’! But, the cack-handed lampoon by JD Vance, the 39 year old Ohio Senator picked by Trump, has made ‘cats’ an infra dig commodity. Was it a trick to make them feel chastened? So, what if the cadence of […]
Bad Habit By Alana S. Portero
Review By Sunaina Luthra Women trapped in a man’s guise In a quest, for voice to share their somber tale Their heart beats with a tender grace Do they long to show their real face? Each step taken towards acceptance of their identity is met with a scorn A Stigma and an embarrassment Meant to […]
THE ‘KANWAR YATRA’ MELEE—how the name ‘squall’ turned into a faux pas?
The Kanwars usually lack lusture in their clothes but not in their heart! Their Spartan saffron makeover carrying the appurtenances of small wooden canopy slung on their shoulders and a cloth tied around the head walking allegretto turns out to be a fantasia for the passers-by. These indefatigable devotees carry ‘Ganga water’ in earthen pots […]