Ikigai: Giving every day meaning and joy Yukari Mitsuhashi 2018 Octopus Publishing pp. 118 How to Not Always be Working: A toolkit for creativity and radical self care Marlee Grace 2018 Morrow Gift pp. 112 Ikigai is a book about the art of always staying busy in an attempt to increase your longevity. The book…
The Last Dance Anmol Arora 2019 Speaking Tiger pp. 320 The Last Dance is the debut novel by Anmol Arora. The narrative traces the life of a young Kurdish girl growing up in India. Having taken refuge in India at the peak of Turkey- Kurdistan conflict, the girl, struggles to find her identity in the…
To Hell With You Mitro (Mitro Marjani in Hindi, trans. by Gita Rajan and Raji Narasimhan) Krishna Sobti 2007 Katha pp. 114 Mitro Marjani is one of the few books that I have read through in English as well as in Hindi. While the translation is good, I enjoyed the Hindi version a tad bit…
The Strange Library Haruki Murakami 2014 Harvill Secker pp. 88 (Audio book 1 hour) The Strange Library describes a young man’s experiences at a library which he visits to return books, and gets entrapped into reading thick books. The book is absurd with a surreal touch to it. It leaves you with a sense of…
Birthday Stories Haruki Murakami 2006 Vintage Books pp. 207 Birthday stories is an anthology of stories written on the theme of birthdays. Most stories are snippets from a single day or at most a few days. The short stories, I am ashamed to admit, are mostly by writers I have never read before. Murakami is…
Ishq Mein Shahar Hona Ravish Kumar 2015 Rajkamal Prakashan pp. 90 Ishq mein shahar hona is a collection of short stories based on romance but also talking about politics and urban life. I picked up the book only because of Ravish Kumar’s reputation and with a sense of bewilderment that someone who I had only…
The Dyslexia Code: There is No More Compassion- Do It! Karl De Leeuw 2017 Amazon Asia Pacific pp. 103 The book talks about diagnosing and addressing dyslexia in children and what makes living with it tough. It is an interesting read since so far the ones that I have read have mostly been written by…
Secret at Mystic Lake (Nancy Drew Diaries) Carolyn Keene 2014 Aladdin pp. 152 This book is the sixth in the Nancy Drew Diaries series. The book sees Nancy and her friends Bess and George taking a biking trip to a scenic lake. While the ride is physically tiring but enjoyable, a series of events unfold…
Kumar, K. (2019). Kya Shiksha Shanti Mein Sahayak ho Sakti Hai? (Part I). (L. Gupta, Trans.). Shiksha Vimarsh, 21(1), 17-21. The paper is the first in a series discussing the interface between formal education and peace. In this paper, the author references personal experiences that led to the realisation that education of History through mainstream…
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta Amish 2019 Wesltand pp. 374 The third in the series based on Ramayana, Amish’s Raavan, presents the narrative with primary focus on the life of Raavan. The making of the antagonist in what will be the war between Ram and Raavan has been highlighted through a series of circumstances in Raavan’s…
