Varun Sayal is a fellow you like to get connected with. As far as we know him, he is a straight forward and genuine person who is a foodie too :). Well, only these are not the important attributes of him. He is a fantastic writer with a genuinely good imagination. I remember a conversation with my late grandfather during ... Read More »
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Satyavati And Shantanu By Ashok K Banker | Book Review
Mahabharat or Mahabharata, the complex most epic around the world, is full of emotions, attributes and more importantly “lessons one should learn from“. Since ages, it inspired authors to not only take inspiration from the same but (urge a wish inside to) to retell it once in their lifetime. The retelling obviously has some of the differences in the plot ... Read More »
Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder | An Inspirational Biography | Book Review
As you know, we love reading stories and we also love sharing our views on the books we read….I think that all great stories have that power to connect with its readers, to make us believe that the characters could be you or me, or we might know them amongst friends and family. We also like it when these characters ... Read More »
Ashwatthama’s Redemption: The Rise of Dandak by Gunjan Porwal | Book Review
Mahabharata aka Mahabharat has something within it which made various creative fellows, mainly from India, curious to explore it in their own way. Mahabharat itself is a part of Jaya or JayaSamhita. It is said that Mahabharat contains everything which is found in the known (and possibly unknown too) world. Here are some of the known retellings/explorations of Mahabharat we ... Read More »
Satyayoddha Kalki – Eye of Brahma By Kevin Missal | Book Review
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत । अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम्- ॥४-७॥ परित्राणाय- साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् । धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥ There is something so eternal and comforting in this promise that no matter how much the Adharma appears to rise in this world, there will always be Dharma to defeat it and restore balance to our world and ... Read More »
The Peshwa: War of the Deceivers by Ram Sivasankaran | Book Review
Bajirao Ballal aka Peshwa Bajirao Bhat, the son of Balaji Vishwanath was an unmatched warrior and military strategist we’ve seen in the recent Indian history. It pains to see such a remarkable warriors don’t get the due in the history. It is in an irony that people come to know about him through commercial films. Are we failing the historical ... Read More »