The Good O’l Days
Oh, I miss those days, when all that mattered was the next class — carrying a bulky book, and caressing with a love that none understood. * I miss that thrill — of having the book open, of reading a...
View ArticleEnchanting Much, Is the Order of Words
English insanely makes sense. No matter how you rephrase a sentence, there’s always meaning. Desire is the pendulum never content. The pendulum that desire is, is never content. Never content is...
View ArticleShakespeare, the Marketeer
For a long time, people have believed that writing and marketing are two different entities. Marketing is the art of selling stuff to people. And writing — well writing is just bleeding. But we’ve...
View ArticleEverything Matters
Hey there! If you like this check out my Medium profile for more.Filed under: Unplugged Tagged: beliefs, conflict, English literature, life, reading, reality, writing
View ArticleTwice Born
I just read Twice Born, a novel by Vijay Raghavan. After having read three books of Paulo Coelho’s, I needed a break. And so, I turned to some Indian writing. I hate it that sometimes Indian writers...
View ArticleWriting. Grammar VS Feelings
I like to think I know my grammar. But I can’t write grammar. For me, it’s always about writing feelings. I don’t think about grammar rules when I write. As for the conscious rules that prevent me from...
View ArticleAdvice for the Modern Age
Body shaming is a thing now. Having experienced it a few times myself, I can say it’s not new. For a long time now, the world has been mocking those who don’t have pear-shaped bodies. One man has the...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Education
Or to be more exact, let’s talk studies and literature. Some say those two words should never be in the same sentence. And if that’s the case, my whole life is a question mark. Because I study...
View ArticleWhy I Didn’t Read the Millennium Series
I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but I couldn’t even get past half of the book. But the funny thing is that I hadn’t accepted it, until now. I tried giving it another try, again, and...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Study Shakespeare
Some of us, more than others, have taken those Shakespeare lessons in school a little too close to heart. So much so that we decided to delve deeper into the man’s mastery with words, words, and more...
View ArticleThe Tale of a Boy at Sea
Yesterday, I read a unique book that chilled me to the bone. It wasn’t the curious case of an unsolvable mystery, it wasn’t a multi-murder crime thriller, and it wasn’t a sweet romantic proposal story....
View ArticleThe Move
Off-center since birth, gone off-centre in a day– a complete transfer.Filed under: Unplugged Tagged: English literature, favourites, Haiku, life, poetry, postaday, reality
View ArticleModern Talk
English, for me, is a second language. A lot of the things that come as instinct for native speakers come to me only if I’m attentive and careful. And every day, every time I speak, I strive to get to...
View ArticleOf Murder in Non-Fiction
There are two types of readers of murder: one who read fiction and non-fiction and know what they’re reading. The other is those who read non-fiction and complain it’s not as good as fiction. I don’t...
View ArticleDon’t study English literature
Quora has become a place where you can ask weird questions without worrying about sounding foolish. For instance, I was surprised when I saw that someone had asked why they should study English...
View ArticleThe Catcher in the Rye
It’s not often that you’d read a book that changes the way you look at the world and at the way you look at writing as an art. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger did that for me. Five chapters into...
View ArticleAn uncanny realisation
A few weeks ago I met with an old school friend. We had a lot to discuss about the last six years that had elapsed since we last saw each other. But of all things we spoke of, one stood out to me,...
View ArticleWhen arts and science collide
As an arts student in school, I had a hard time mingling with the science kids. For them, I was the one who read literature, making fiction the reality of my life. Whereas they micro-examined every...
View ArticleNicely saying
When you’re a copywriter at a corporate, some things you pick up overtime. But even after being on the job for four years, there are still some things that you’d pick up only from far more experienced...
View ArticleAn extreme society, narrated
It’s not the first time that I’ve felt this way. It’s not the first time that a book has taken over my entire soul, twisted it, wrung it, and then left me on the counter struggling to unravel myself....
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