Literary Thoughts of a Dragon Fly

Thoughts & Review on Story wallah by Neelesh Misra’s Mandali छोटी सी कहानी से, बारिशों की पानी से सारी वादी भर गयी न जाने क्यों, दिल भर गया न जाने क्यों आँख भर गयी This beautiful song written by Gulzaar saab captures the perfect essence of a story & monsoon. Stories, lyrics, novels are the only everlasting magic for us. Neelesh Misra’s Mandali spins that magic yarn for us and shares us with heart-warming, earthy stories, to make this very moody monsoon a bit tolerable for us. I heard first about Neelesh Misra on Twitter reading his lyrics/poems in Hindi on Twitter ages ago. Now when, I got this opportunity to read his book- Neelesh Misra Mandali’s Storywallah, I took up the opportunity to read it.  There is something about short stories, they engulf you in their world for a short time & yet stay with you with forever. Neelesh Misra’s Mandali’s –“Storywallah” is the collective efforts from different authors who have written 20 stories. Each s...

Thoughts & Review on Sneaky People by Thomas Berger There are times, when a book chooses you. As simple as that, no thunder lightning, no symphony, no loud signs, neither does the book automatically delivers at your door. But it just picks you up. I was facing a readers block for a fortnight. While i did have piles of books waiting for me to read, but I didn't just have enough interest to read any. After heavy duty reading of Neel Mukherjee's State of Freedom & Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, I was drained out. While these two novels, did satisfy my literary cravings & but somewhere I felt a void. These novels were intense, diverse of course, the treatment & the writing different. But they were like two living entities who possessed me & both refused to leave me steadfastly. However the ghost did wear off, but the emptiness remained. I stared blank at the PC, didn't read in bus, at home whatsoever. I did have this novel ...

I'll be honest, its my fault for the delay in review. But then of course two things prompted me, to post the review.  Those two things are :-  1. Our neighbor's dog passed away & i could strongly resonate with a story mentioned in the book about the origins of a dog's loyalty towards its master. Its a beautiful, heart warming fable and i almost cried at the end.  2. The Flipkart Reviewer called twice regarding the update of review. I know, i didn't match up to the responsibility of writing a review on time. Then i learnt the second lesson, keeping up one's virtual social credibility is also important.  But now for the review :-  Book Name - Fables from India-A collection of Short Stories Author- Uday Mane Genre -Fiction-Short Stories Publisher house - Frog Books/Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd ISBN -978-93-52016-26-6 No.of Pages - 168 Source - Flipkart Review Programme Page Turner :-   Page Turner ...