When you Google “How to live?”, a lot of memoirs, lists, articles pop up but it never somehow strikes the chord. Mitch Albom’s ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ does not make big claims that it can teach the reader how to live;...
Author - Jehlum Pandit
Kamila Shamsie’s beautifully heart – wrenching novel Home Fire, long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017, evokes a myriad of feelings. Set in America, Britain and finally Pakistan, we follow the journey of two Muslim...
“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm and judicial pen But, when borders bleed, we watch with dread As lines of ink across the map turn red.” We have an odd love for dystopian fiction. A lot...
Patriotism, while a valiant and a noble attitude, has become a tricky and a murky topic in the last few years in our country. From debates about what qualifies as anti-nationalistic activities to the government making it...
Just like every other thing, being famous also has its pros and cons. As ordinary non-famous people, we may fail to realize the negative aspects of fame; since from the outside, being at the receiving end of this adulation seems...
I know that Padmaavat controversy has now become a pretty corroded topic to discuss; but still, I felt like sharing what I wrote a couple of weeks ago. I came to this point of discussion after reading various articles over the...
Oppression in today’s times is overwhelmingly omnipresent. From patriarchy to casteism, we open the morning newspaper only to have news of atrocious acts committed by humans on each other jump out at us. What shocks me to...
A glimpse of Bareilly Ki Barfi The much loved romantic comedy of 2017, Bareilly Ki Barfi was a light, funny movie about Bitti Mishra (Kriti Sanon) a bohemian Bareilly girl who falls in love with Pritam Vidrohi, an author whose...
Humans have always believed in powers greater than themselves; be it fate or their faith in God. But, since eons, we have been collectively placing our beliefs in wrong people such as Godmen or Godwomen, only to be later cheated...
