Happy Birthday, Arundhati Roy! Our author looks at and recommends some of her best works that make for great starting points for her body of literature. Arundhati Roy is among India’s best-known contemporary writers in English, who also often makes the news for her radical views and political activism. An architecture student, Roy came to…
Read the review of one of Mary Oliver’s famous books of poems, Devotions, where poems speak in the language of nature. ‘Attention is the beginning of devotion’, observed Mary Oliver, a seeker who found life’s great questions mysteriously answered in the rhythms of the natural world and then reflected those quiet revelations within her poetic…
Come and travel with the author as we explore the simple philosophies of living the hilly-billy silly mountain life that Ruskin Bond professed in his A Book of Simple Living (2015) If a man can be known by the ‘nature’ of his work, literally or more so, a child in us reminisces about Bond. This…
Check out the 10 new book releases in November that our team vouches for to be added to your year-end book haul! The penultimate month of the year already! November always feels like a month stuck in time. Yet, across most parts of the world, this is when the weather transitions, the temperature starts to…
In these 10 best fall books of all time, the season finds its voice, resonating through the pages with the rustle of leaves and the scent of autumnal spices. As the vibrant hues of fall paint the world in warm tones, there’s an undeniable magic in the air. The crisp breeze rustles through the golden…
This essay delves into the history of Penny Dreadfuls in Victorian England and their continuing impact on the popular imagination. In the dimly lit streets of Victorian England, a peculiar form of entertainment emerged in the 1800s, captivating the hearts and minds of the masses – the Penny Dreadfuls. If the term – Penny Dreadfuls…