Brotherless Night by V.V Ganeshananthan Book Review
Review By Sunaina Luthra On May 21st, 1991, it was a routine school day; I was 12 years old. Now I am not! I still carry the memory of that day; newspapers flooded with gruesome images of mutilated bodies and limbs strewn like discarded toys and the calculating gaze of a suicide bomber driven by […]
James by Percival Everett Book Review
Review By Harsimran Kaur Slavery is subjugating! Slavery is an abattoir of one’s impressionistic freedom! Slavery is unruly and unruffled! Slavery is about the slave burrowed in a dystopic empiricism! What deserves more attention? The slave emasculated in the web of impropriety or the indomitable slavery that impugns the slave in the cesspit of scruples. […]
The Life Impossible By Matt Haig Book Review
Review By Harsimran Kaur Grace Winters sits on an inconsequential sofa, unsettled and uninhabited. She has nothing to lose now, and what once belonged to her is lost. Her chagrin towards life is quite similar to the infinite paramouncy of the bird perched on the oak tree nestled by bulbous flowers and pubescent leaves, albeit […]
STAFFROOM CHRONICLES
At the heart of a bustling schoollies a sanctuary so coolWhere teachers can bend some rules Here laughter and wisdom entwineCreating a harmonious blendTo brace us for the tedious day ahead It is indeed an abodeExuberating immense warmthDistracting us for a whileFrom the day’s wrath Its expanse seems so vastWith mosaic of mindsUniquely aligned From […]
Unravelling the Kashmir Knot: Past, Present and Future By Aman Hingorani
Review By Harsimran Kaur Why today Kashmir has become the honeysuckle of ‘International profiteering’? It has for, Auld Lang Syne, and even today become a profiterole touching the tongue; the taste often a farrago of inconceivable entrenchment and precarious profligacy. What is the Kashmir Issue? Bilaterally lodged between India and Pakistan, is it a sacred […]
Butter By Asako Yuzuki
Review By Sunaina Luthra ‘Butter’ a rich creamy ingredient, continues to tantalize our taste buds. Any dish can become a comforting indulgence when smothered with butter, turning an ordinary dish to a delightful treat. Fear not, dear readers!!! This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive analysis of indispensable butter but rather an exploration of its […]
There are Rivers in the Sky
Harsimran Kaur On Sep 13, 2024, In Book review, There are Rivers in the Sky– Fiction The fertile land ingratiates the water to reap a good plough. The clouds, mesmerized by their own intonating shifts, take pride to let water drop in the naked hue of reflection. The water breathes in me; it comes out breaking the lesions of skin […]
Fat Truths About Obesity
Obesity is a silent Killer! It’s a hard-pointed murderous knife that slits through the harmonious functioning of the body. Let’s be serious; a sugar cube disintegrating the fingers into the cup of tea/coffee is less of a saccharine aflutter to let it be stored as a fat in the body. It is sweet and sentimental, […]
The Fat and the Pompous; Have they reached a ‘Fat Pas’?
The fat and their faff! It’s like the beads of the string falling in random, and the alignment of fingers going awry to pick the many. The fat and their pomp! The flounce on the faces seeing their fat-fermented bellies says it all. They are in fact, all nice people, well-groomed in perfect savoir faire […]
The Fury By Alex Michaelides
Review By Harsimran Kaur There is life. There is death. In between lies the invidious animosities, the pleasurable betrayals, the implausible cacophony of shrieks & shrivels and the interminable prolificacies. One mocks the other! The ‘other’ is ready with a facetious smirk. The improbable felicitation continues till life and death seem similar. To take someone’s […]