• I have devised a cunning plan #BlogchatterBlogHop

    When I was in school, we had to make journals as part of our board exams requirement. They were 20 easy marks to add to our science subjects and almost everyone put in the considerable effort of asking for favours, getting their mothers/sisters onboard to do the diagrams or to write the material so the…

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  • Not a book review: A Meaningful Triumph

    I love fantasy. I think that’s a well-established fact, especially if you see my Netflix suggestions and the books I have read or added to my TBR. It pains me that there are so few fantasy readers and authors in India. So obviously I had to read and review Arsh’s ebook A Meaningful Triumph.

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  • Not a book review: Life with a Pinch of Salt

    What attracted me to this ebook was the cover and the blurb that has the line: This collection of short stories and flash fiction is a small attempt to remind us that life is messy and adventurous and full of surprises. So I decided to go on this short, salty and sweet adventure.

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  • How to beat the cultural zeitgeist

    Since my friends and I have crossed our 30s, it’s like our eyes have opened and we are seeing the world a little more clearly. It’s like for the first 20 years, we were sponges and now, we’re going through all that we have accumulated only to find very little of it is useful. 

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  • And it was all yellow – a bookish roundup

    I love how the AtoZ forces me to go through a dictionary for fun; and the many words that the most difficult to choose for alphabets i.e. X, Y and Z actually have. I chose yellow for this post because of the Coldplay song and the way the lyrics so beautifully capture my love for…

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  • Show don’t tell – thoughts on the writing aXiom

    I think one of my favouritest rules of writing – which has made the most sense to me – is show don’t tell. It took me the longest time to figure out what it meant though. It is the difference between saying He was scared and His throat was parched, his armpits were soaked in…

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  • Do you really need a writing style?

    The first time it occurred to me that I had a “unique” writing style was when someone reviewing my ebook called it “peculiar.” It didn’t sound too bad so I forgot about it. Which basically means I whined about it to a friend because I was too afraid to ask the reviewer for an explanation.

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