Crossed and Knotted Book Review: The unique experience of reading separate stories woven together to form an intricate tapestry.
Roots and Meanderings Anthology of Selected Short Stories a wholesome package ranging from the joyful to the poignant to fond remembrance and perchance fulfillment.
"The delightful collection of short stories in Roots and Meanderings has a very striking resonance to the name of its title... an interesting blend of ordinary, everyday experiences of our mundane surroundings told with simplicity and earnestness and haunting, riveting narratives marked with subtle, poetic and also cinematic style of narration. "
Roots and Meanderings - Learning and Creativity Anthology of Selected Short Stories is now out in Kindle Edition on Amazon. A special foreword and review by Lopa Banerjee.
Roots and Meanderings - Learning and Creativity Anthology of Selected Short Stories is now out in Kindle Edition on Amazon. This book, born out of Short Stories Contest organized by Learning and Creativity is made up of 10 selected stories, each from a different author. The range of authors takes in published authors as well as budding short story writers.
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Dr. Koshy’s ‘Treatise’ is a journey to make his readers understand why and how, poems through the ages, through their similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, euphony and cacophony, are actually meant to cater to our hearts, our emotions and finer human feelings.
These women have searched for independence, creative and spiritual liberty and aesthetic fulfillment within their restrictive sociocultural milieu. Walker expresses the spark, the activities, the challenge found in the creative spirit of these women.
Over the years, the novel has been regarded as one of the most powerful works of art due to its depiction of the passion and relationships, the physical and spiritual struggles between a couple of families living in the Yorkshire moors.
One of the most successful younger generation Indian English poets, Sonnet Mondal has a long list international literary magazines/ journal publications to his credit.
While there is no denying that a better editor would have made this an improved (and shorter) book, Ten Thousand Saints, for the better part, manages to enthral readers with its visual sense of narration.
Ramendra Kumar writes about how Effective Parenting, his maiden attempt at non-fiction as well as his first e-book, became a ‘virtual’ success.
Ramendra Kumar, author of Effective Parenting: A New Paradigm recounts and revisits his years of bringing up his son, a pocket-sized dynamo, a bundle of joy.
Every activity whether it is cooking, serving, cleaning up, gardening, repairing et al is shared by every child and teacher. The teacher child ratio is 1: 6. As far as the index of happiness is considered – it is higher than I have seen in any school.
Parenting is not only about anxiety and apprehension, about fretting and fuming, it can also have its moments of unadulterated mirth and undiluted madness.
Learning and Creativity’s first publication, Effective Parenting: A New Paradigm ebook was released formally on Sept 7. It is now available on Amazon
Effective Parenting: A New Paradigm suggests a fresh avatar for the new age parent. This topical e-book by Ramendra Kumar has the potential to make a good parent – the best parent.
As with any family or group of friends, it is sad that tragedy turns on the true light of the heart. Sadness is prevalent throughout A SONG FOR ISSY BRADLEY; it is that raw emotion that acts as the catalyst for characterial change.
For what I gained from reading this, the value is immeasurable. Many ideas are gleaned from others; this is a nice crystallization that presents a new vision. My life is bettered for reading this.
Look closely and you’ll see little hidden charms in each of the drawings.
P G Wodehouse – the pasha of plot, the czar of characterisation, the maestro of metaphor, the sultan of simile and the indisputable lord of the language.
As nights passed, I tried everything to win Ankita’s confidence: doing callisthenics, making faces, creating sounds and even yodelling. The result was the same. She would just howl...
It is an absolute joy and pleasure to read Jungle Book and I would recommend it to all those who love adventure and have the spirit for it.
Every story unfolds a small mystery or unravels a forgotten memory and emotion.
'Suvarnarekha: An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing In English' reveals women’s zest for an eventful and essential life in the social milieu.
A beautiful poem for daughter by her father that reminiscences his joyful journey with her through life.
The one book, above all else, that has made a profound difference in my life is Love Story by Erich Segal.
‘Jenny, I’m sorry’.
‘Stop!’ she cut off my apology, then said very quietly, “Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.’
'When I started reading it - even though our life had its quota of dramatic situations and characters, especially with me the drama queen being a part of it -the book seemed so far from reality.'
This book has benefited many others—and for them, kudos—but for me, it was too distracting.
'When my second book It Had to Be You, came, situations were different, so I was prepared for that. Life was teaching and I was jotting down. Many times writing reached at that extent that I wrote something before and lived it later. It’s unbelievable but that happened with me.'
The author has weaved different emotions and human psychological traits in the form of short stories in Impulse, all of which are intense, intriguing and inquisitive.
What amazed me—what captivated me—is Lahiri’s use of simplistic prose to create a vivid and beautiful picture. Her artistic strokes are much the same as a classical painter creating his masterpiece. In every brush is beauty and in the whole, magnificent.
'I don’t want to force my thinking on anyone. It’s totally up to the reader what s/he wants to take back home. My job as a writer, just like a painter, is to paint a picture. What perception is formed is something I cannot push.'
The narration is captivating. The revelations and suspense leave you amazed when they unfold in layers revealing new mysteries and adding to your shock every now and then. Though the language reflects amateurishness but captivating plot makes up it.
Sahir Ludhianvi is probably the only songwriter in Hindi films whose poetry was accepted in its purest form. So great was his stature as an Urdu poet that he never had to mould his poetry to suit the demands of film songwriting; instead producers and composers adapted their requirements to his poetry.
Film historian and archivist SMM Ausaja, the author of Bollywood in Posters speaks to Learning and Creativity at length, discussing his long and arduous journey through the painstaking collection and meticulous archiving and restoration of vintage film memorabilia, which is now a priceless repository of India's cinema heritage.
As 8th March 2014 dawned, I remembered myself as a woman, a thing I rarely do. I look upon myself as an individual, a rebellious non-conformist, but just an individual with strong opinions about everything.
Yet today, knowing that it is a day when life is supposed to centre around women, (not that on other days it doesn't), I remembered some women who have inspired me ever since I was a teenager.
One thing that I’ve learned while writing Never Say Never is that impossible is nothing. If you can dream it, you can certainly do it.
It is a difficult task to pick any one literary character among the numerous who swim around my head; signify some part of my life or the other.
With India heading towards 16th Lok Sabha elections and expecting a new Prime Minister, the setting seems to be perfect for a novel based on politics and has a Prime Minister as the protagonist.
Kairavi has everything. An enviable job, friends and parties! Except that she is jinxed in the matters of love!
Soul Seekers is the story of Pia, a pretty girl, whose life transverses through many twists and turns before she finally finds her soul mate.
'Honesty is important, yes; but in order to fulfil your own creative requirements, you often need to re-structure the scheme of things, or at least the chronological order in which stuff happens. Because you want readers to understand and accept your book in the way it was written.'
"The greatest strength of the book is that the denouement goes beyond the pessimism, the grim reality and the sordid drama to offer more than a dash of hope."
I would like to share the unique specialty of Unmukt Chand's “The Sky Is The Limit” which has given me new insights about the importance of the role of mentors and coaches. Unmukt Bhaiyya received a lot of support from his mentors and coaches who invested a lot of time and hard work in shaping and making him achieve success on the cricket pitch.
By the time dream transforms into obsession, she is ready to pay any price, make any compromise, try any trick and tame any limit so that she can become the shiniest star in the show world.
Blood Pressure Down book offers effective and easy-to-follow checklists and dietary plans that will help you keep a check on your blood pressure.
In an interview to Learning & Creativity, Monika talks about her experience of creating Echoes From The Vortex (A Memoir) as an experience of churning and discovery, as she battled stoically with cancer.
Learning And Creativity lists for you the bestsellers and unputdownable books available at super discounts on ebooks.
Amazon has a virtual Kindle eBook store containing a whopping 18,56,203 Kindle eBooks, including both free and priced eBooks (available at attractive discounts
Flipkart has dedicated eBook catalogue by authors, genres, bestsellers, award winners or new releases. The website boasts of a store with over 10,000 free eBooks which includes classics as well.
For today’s time-deprived corporate community and gadget-obsessed youth, eBooks have come up as a great technology as they allow you to read on your handheld devices
Rahul Dravid and Sanjay Manjrekar released Unmukt Chand's book “The Sky Is The Limit – My Journey To The World Cup”
“The Sky Is The Limit – My Journey to the World Cup”, Unmukt Chand’s new book chronicles his rise as a cricketer, from childhood to the World Cup victory.
Fablery is a place where you will get to read (very soon) works of a lot of good storytellers out there.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. The title is derived from the fictional guidebook of the same name, which is an eccentric electronic encyclopedia featured in the book.
In an interview to L&C, Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury talks about 'Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras', her latest book of poems on Benaras.
Shrikant, who has marked shades of stormy and bohemian life of Sarat Chandra, is a saga, spanning four parts.
Though the book is a literary failure, college students, lovers and teenagers would love it like anything as they would be able to associate them with the protagonist.
It is the first and the best book of Ravinder Singh, which made him the darling of the millions and established him as India’s most popular romance writer. If you love to read mushy romance, this book is definitely for you.
Swayam Ganguly's first novel Love, Films and Rock n Roll! is a story of three young men who are travelling on a train from Jamshedpur to Kolkata.
Jhumpa Lahiri's ‘The Lowland’ Gets Shortlisted for Man Booker
Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen ushered in a new age of star-power and charisma. The why’s and how’s of their togetherness mystified an entire generation.
Love, Films and Rock 'n' Roll! is contemporary and has a sense of nostalgia for the GenY - 1 type of crowd.
The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.
Swayam Ganguly's book ‘Love, Films and Rock ‘n’ Roll’, which was recently launched in Kolkata’s prestigious Oxford Bookstore. An exclusive interview.
The stories of Feluda are very interesting and action-packed. This book is a favorite book for teenagers like reading detective and mysterious stories.
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho sails smooth like a stream in plains, a candle in calm weather and a kite in favorable wind.
Yann Martel's imaginative fantasy adventure novel - Life of Pi offers a magical reading experience.
In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business.
A penetrating satire on the English landed gentry of Austen's dayandone of the best-loved romances of all time, Pride and Prejudice is one of English literature's most cherished novels
And the Mountains Echoed is a story about Abdullah and his sister Pari who live with their father and step-mother.
But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the cost. In his desperation, he reaches out to the ones who have never offered any help to him: the Vayuputras.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces Dante’s Inferno.
" There is humour as well as tragedy in this book, besides its faint note of hope for human nature; and it is delightfully written in the now familiar Southern tradition" (Sunday Times)
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.”
Tell your heart that the fear...
L&C interviews Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury on her recent book “Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen- Bengali Cinema’s First Couple”.
The cocoon of science around our lives is so comprehensive that it has become more than a sine qua non for the world to go on today. Not only that. In the non-material,...
The Arabian Nights, containing as it does examples of framing, self-reference, hidden patterns, recursion, and intertextuality, has become a source of modernist fiction, which artists can imitate, invert or parody.
The author has just picked some episodes from his or others’ childhood and penned them down in worst possible English for the sake of writing a novel.
The autobiographical writings of Babur and Jahangir, Abul Fazal's autobiography, appended to Ain-i-Akbari, also gained extensive acclaims.
Overall it’s a nice, compelling and eye-opener read albeit I am not sure if it really deserved a Man Booker.
Book review - Mysteries are unearthed, the Evil is revealed in The Oath of the Vayuputras.
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a soul-shaking saga of sobs and sorrows with a happy but tear-soaked climax.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. A review by Paul Sanjoy Gonsalves
One would be looking forward to more poems from Mary Herbert in future. She has a fertile pen, capable of highlighting the sensitivity of nature and the tribulations of our time. A pen, many would like to possess.
Rao's alter ego, Anand, is born into a 'middle middle class' family in a sleepy hamlet of Afrozabad state of princely India.
Backed by solid research, Brill cuts through the medical jargon to explain how and why each step in her program works.
The only place outside the imaginative territory of literature where reality and unreality lose their distinction and get blurred...
Effective Parenting has the potential to make a good parent the best parent! Enjoy hands-on approach to Parenting bundled with 25 stories.
