Priya Hajela

Annotation 35: Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

I first read Sophie’s Choice in 1985, when I was eighteen years old. It was a birthday gift from my…

2 years ago

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante’s third book of the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, reads much longer than the first…

2 years ago

Elena Ferrante The Story Continues

Ferrante’s second book, The Story of a New Name begins with an important reveal that goes on to shape the…

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Elena Ferrante The Master Storyteller

My sister first introduced me to Elena Ferrante’s The Neapolitan Novels, told me that it was quick, light reading that…

2 years ago

What you see is what you touch and smell…

Anthony Doerr is a writer who started his writing career with short stories and progressed to novels.He has written several,…

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This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey

This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, essays on writing by Steve Almond is a very flavorful set of small…

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Bharati Mukherjee, A Writer of Incredible Stories

Bharati Mukherjee, born on July 27th, 1940, in Calcutta is considered the matriarch of diaspora fiction. Her book, The Middleman…

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When Breath Becomes Air And We Die

Dr. Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon and Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospital, a graduate of Stanford University with multiple degrees,…

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The Pale Blue Eye 

The film The Pale Blue Eye, starring Christian Bale and Harry Melling (as Edgar Allen Poe) is a story that…

2 years ago

The Indian art of giving away

There are ways and means to give and support, to care and to help. We must trust and believe, open…

3 years ago

YOGA: IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT?

Yes, but only if you leave your ego at the door of the Yogashala. That is not only the prevailing…

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