The House of a Hundred Stories by Mariam Karim-Ahlawat
Sometimes in distant, clouded dreams A wondrous house I still espy, And all it’s friendly memories Touch me like a happy sigh. Where as little children we learnt To love … Continue reading
Democrats And Dissenters by Ramachandra Guha
…’ I do not think that the present system is a failure,’ said Nehru to Narayan, ‘though it may fail in the future for all I know. If it fails, … Continue reading
The Hills Were Alive at Abbotsford Literary Weekend 2016
Abbotsford Literary Weekend – Post Event Press Release Abbotsford Literary Weekend 2016 The first Abbotsford Literary Weekend started at Abbotsford, Nainital in a traditional way, where Kumauni music was … Continue reading
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
…In every phone call during the time they were apart she had reminded him of this, of her inability to stop daydreaming about the day she would leave Limbe and … Continue reading
The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein
The human race can be divided into three kinds of people: those who love Star Wars, those who like Star Wars, and those who neither live nor like Star Wars….If … Continue reading
The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
The reason I remember Lisa Genova’s Still Alice is because it was the first book on Alzheimer’s that I had read and because I had cried through the book. Sally Hepworth’s The … Continue reading
An Unsafe Haven by Nada Awar Jarrar
“In the past five years, the Arab world has swelled and raged as dictators have fallen and people in their hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions of others displaced. … Continue reading
Ms. Murphy’s Makeover by Jacqueline Goldstein; reviewed by Judith Abelove Shemtob
The school year starts for children, teachers, parents, administrators, state department, police, and even tutors! In my second year of retirement after 28 years of teaching in the Scarsdale Schools, … Continue reading
The Good Book Corner Diaries- Goolbai Gunasekara
Hailing from a family of distinguished educationists Goolbai Gunasekara is the product of an erudite home in which humour, wit and a clever turn of phrase, was encouraged by Dr. … Continue reading
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