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Birthday + Thanksgiving + New Year Resolutions
This was originally supposed to be a birthday post, where I wanted to talk about turning over a new decade, and entering the 5th one, no less! Like always, life got in the way – work life, to be specific – not the writer’s block life which has delayed (canceled?) so many of my other Read more
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2023 – A year in (fewer than usual) books
Yes, I fell severely short of my 50 book target for 2023 thanks to being ridiculously tied up with work (Work has been sucking my soul for 6-7 months now and I have had very little time to do anything). For the last 6 years I have been successfully reading at least 50 books a Read more
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2022 – A year in books
So, another eventful year comes to an end, and it’s time for my review of the books I read this year! Thanks to Goodreads, I can properly keep track of them, so here’s a little infographic detailing the 50 books I read this year and stars I gave them: Yeah I read two whole technical Read more
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2021 – A year in books
It is said that the world belongs to those who read, and 2021 (and 2020) made that literally true, and how! Confined to our homes and immediate localities for the most part, reading is what opened the doors to far away lands for me these 2 years. I know, it always does, but it was Read more
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Book Review: The Maid
Author: Nita Prose Date of Publication: Expected on January 4, 2022 Genre: Mystery, Crime Legacy: This is the author and long-time editor’s first novel How I heard about this book: Got an advance review copy of the e-book from Netgalley.com. I chose it because the plotline sounded interesting to me. Appropriate Audience: Teen/ Adult Rating: 3.5 Read more
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Movie Review – The Great Indian Kitchen
[This post was originally published in a Marathi magazine called Palakneeti, published from Pune. You can read the original post on the magazine’s free online version here] Once upon a time there is this beautiful girl – educated, trained in Indian classical dance, an expert at cooking; and as she grew up in a gulf Read more
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Fairy Tales of Fearless Girls (and why my daughter is not a princess!)
Came across this wonderful book by Susannah McFarlane, while browsing (online) my local library’s bookshelves. It is a modern take on fairy tales, and I was blown away by it. What if Rapunzel wasn’t a poor, helpless princess with her beautiful long hair as her only redeeming factor? What did she do all day in Read more
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The (customary) birthday post
Yes, yes, I know, I have missed my birthday posts the last 3 years, so there is clearly no ‘custom’ followed, and I am a day late to publish this post; but with hope against hope hopen, I hope to re-establish it. I barely remember my birthdays in the last 4 years because it was Read more
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Book Review: American as paneer pie
Author: Supriya Kelkar Date of Publication: 9 June 2020Genre: Young adult fiction, comedy-drama, coming-of-ageLegacy: The author is an India-American brought up in the mid-west, and has written many brilliant children’s books Intended Age Group: Any, but particularly tweens and teenagers This one was touted by many book lists, so I immediately reserved it at my local Read more
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Screen-time of the month – March (and February)
Yes, I do sound like a broken record when I say this, but I (also) missed publishing my screen time on February. However, these have been strange times, where there are new challenges and new headaches and new distractions. Anyway, here’s the list of what I watched in February and March. DCI Banks – Netflix Read more
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Screen-time of the month: January
Honestly, this is nothing but another attempt to keep writing… something! So here’s what I watched during the month of January. Bala – Hotstar Had been waiting to watch this movie for a long time, so I pounced on this one! I loved it! Right from the writing to the acting to the direction, everything Read more
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Happy New Year 2020!
Hello, everyone! Here’s wishing a happy, happy new year to all my readers, or what’s left of them anyway! (I know I have no one but myself to blame for that, but let’s put that aside for now. ) This year has whizzed past me at astronomical speeds (both literally – the Earth did complete Read more
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A Nobel project
“Where the mind is without fear, where the head is held high, Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls…” This amazingly beautiful classic poem from Rabindranath Tagore’s Geetanjali was floating in my head while I was day-dreaming at work today. Everyone who knows me well Read more
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