Literary Thoughts of a Dragon Fly

A Poem. I don't know what made me write this poem. I was intending it to be something else, but it turned out to be something else.  Here it is :-  I promise to tell you my secret, If you won’t tell mine, We’ll meet over lunch & have a glass of wine, In case you whine, you little swine, I give you my word, I will bottle you up in jar of brine. I committed a murder, not so long ago, In the time of spring, just beneath the flowery bough, We were having a cup of earl grey & cucumber sandwich, The one who always bewitched me was a witch all the time. Oh she loved me, she told me so. But she loved Tom, dick, harry & many more. What blew me apart, when she pulled the axe on my poor heart, When she told me, that most of all she loved our neighbor, the fiery tart. That fiery tart was a young woman, And I couldn’t fathom, why a woman loved a woman. Angered & Smoldered, all burnt up inside, I threw ...

"W e are all writers at heart, only most of us have lost our words. " I almost felt a void when i finished reading A State of Freedom. I felt a kinship with all the characters & for me all these days, nights & the restless moments were filled with them. At times, this novel or a consortium of linked short stories filled me with so much sadness, that i was almost tempted to keep the book down. To let it unfinished. But perhaps just as an unfinished work of a writer leaves a writer incomplete, a book unfinished also leaves reader incomplete. Its almost been 24 hours that i have finished this book reading, i am almost tempted to start it again. The novel is undoubtedly sad. But it kind of invokes a thought process inside your head, on what does sadness means to you ? Is it longing for someone, something you have lost or sadness is just a poor far fetched cousin of struggle and survival. Neel Mukherjee's touches on these timeless subjects. It might've been...

Book Review :- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Book Name :- When Dimple Met Rishi Author : -Sandhya Menon Publisher :- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd No.of Pages :- 380 ISBN :- 978 1 473 66740 2 Genre :- Young Adult/Fiction/Love Story Courtesy :- Flipkart Review Programme. There are phases in your life, where one picks up different types of books. When you are 5, picture books fulfill that need. When you are in that curious age of 7 to 11, you want to read everything in sight, so you pick up champak, chandamama, Chacha Chaudhry, huckleberry finn, treasure island and the likes. When you are 11 to 15 & God bless you, if you are still reading, then you are probably reading Nancy Drew, Hardy boys, Famous Five, All the books by Enid Blyton, random medical thriller by Robin Cook & I also had a chance to read a Harold Robbins Book : ) When you are out of school finally, college, when at first sight you fall for someone so badly, it hits you like a thunderbolt, you star...