Fiction
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Why do classics, despite being old, continue to stand out even in today’s times? I am sure this is a question we ask ourselves every time we end up buying more classics than contemporary novels. Is it something about the thickness of these books, with tiny font-sized text scrawling like ants through the pages, or…
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“Hiroshima Mon Amour,” a 1959 romantic drama, was written by Marguerite Duras and directed by French filmmaker Alain Resnais. This film is a classic, renowned for its surreal, magical introduction. It opens with an evocative sequence of physical intimacy between two lovers, accompanied by a poetic narration that sets a dreamlike tone. Their bodies, illuminated…
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Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai’s long-awaited novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a detailed account of two young Indians settled in America and of their navigation of culture, roots, and identity. The story unfolds steadily and gives an early impression of another set of confessions and nostalgic longings of an Indian American author. However,…
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I just finished reading the novel “Honour“, written by the Turkish author Elif Shafak, and have so many thoughts and views to share on this book. The plot of the novel is sensitive, contemplative, heart breaking, real and nostalgic; I would say it’s a story that resonates with our own personal struggles in the face…
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Last few weeks have been quite enlightening… as the ultimate truth “solitude is bliss” steadily dawned on me. This realization leaves one feeling lonely and empty initially, but eventually turns out to be that truest companion whom you trust more than yourself. The innate quietness of solitude calms the mind lost in a maze of…
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I recently picked up a romance novel to satisfy the writer and reader in me. On the contrary, I felt sickened by its excessively decorative language and repulsed by the entire concept of love that leads to idolization and dependence rather than liberating two people in love. I guess my ideas about love have drastically…
