Category: Books
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Book Review: Love and (Mellow)Drama
Love and (Mellow)Drama by Manali Desai is a romantic story but with a powerful message at its core. The story is about a young girl Gayatri for whom dance is everything. She wants to pursue her passion but because of lack of support from her parents, she joins a college to pursue her degree. Varun…
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Zodiac Signs
We all love reading our horoscopes, whether we believe in them or not, is a different matter altogether. Personally, I believe in them if they are writing something good, and I scoff of they predict a hard week for me. Not really, I just try to keep my head down and get throughout the tough…
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Xenos
Xenos is a term being used in different contexts throughout history. In its most basic definition, it refers to someone or something foreign, unfamiliar, or strange. The word has been used to describe everything from foreign people to alien beings in science fiction. Origin of Xenos The word xenos comes from the Greek language, where…
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Women Writers I Like
Women in the field of writing have been very few. Most of them never received any recognition. There were many books that were bestsellers but were written under pseudonym, names of their writers revealed much later. The reason they went for pseudonyms was that they were afraid their work wouldn’t be accepted by society. I…
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Voice of Silence
Silence has a voice of its own. Most of the time you cannot hear it but sometimes the voice of silence is so loud that it becomes intolerable. Imagine sitting in a room with your loved one and doing whatever you wish to do. You are both relaxing in your own ways and there is…
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Trains
Trains have a very special place in my heart. I have always been attracted by the loud whistle of a passing train and the sound they make on the tracks. I somehow find the steady rhythm very calming. I grew up in a very small town near our village. One of the major means of…
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Sapiens and Homo Deus
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.” – Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens. “What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves?” – Yuval Noah Harari in Homo…
Books and Muggles 