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After by Vivek Narayanan (Book Review)

🖋 Don't get confused between this and the famous After Wattpad book series. This is a poetry book written by Vivek Narayanan. 🖋 This book by Vivek mostly contains poems inspired by Valmiki's Ramayana. It just doesn't have that. It also has many poems full of incalculable emotions, pain, and many other feelings from historical events.  🖋 The language of the poems, the writing, the design, and the pages vividly illustrated are just amazing work. Yes, in a few of the poems it would be hard to understand what was happening if you didn't read the info about the type of the poems. The places, the things, the people, everyone here has a poem of their own. 🖋 This is definitely not for a beginner. You should read a few poetry books before going to this one. 🖋 In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logue’s and Alice Oswald’s reshapings of Homer and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, the author Narayanan allows the ancient voice of the poem to engage with modern...

The Magicians of Mazda by Ashwin Sanghi (Book Review)

 🪔 Why should history always suit the Victor's narrative? 🪔 Is burning books the same as killing people?  🍀 You never know what awaits on the other side of the door. I never knew this would be on this side of the door. I just couldn't think I'd love this book so much! So many lines, so many paragraphs, so many pages. I went through them again and again. 🍀 Blurb : Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor gets abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran, when he tries to free his wife from the kidnappers. The Ayatollah believes Jim is the key to uncovering the ancient relic known as the Athravan Star, and his men will do anything to possess it, even murder. 🍀 Why is everyone after this Athravan Star? Because they think it can save humanity from all the diseases. 🍀 From the ancient ruins of Persepolis to the Taliban camps of Afghanistan, from the womb of an Udvada fire temple to the icy mountains of Kashmir, from the dreadful coffin cells of Tehran to the deathly ...

It ends with us (Book Review)

 🌼 The story starts with Lily going on a terrace to get some fresh air, and after a while she finds a stranger on the terrace taking his anger out on a chair. They both were there because they had a miserable day.   🌼 In a matter of minutes, Lily goes from worrying the stranger on the roof could be a psycho to getting into his sexy (though not so sexy) pick-up lines.    🌼 They had just started talking, from introducing themselves to talking about what they were doing there. And in an instant, they are talking about things they hadn't talked about with anyone before. Then the stranger (Ryle) starts flirting with Lily.   🌼 “If you wouldn’t sleep with someone you just met,” His eyes meet mine again. “Exactly how far would you go?” She already said thanks, but no thanks. But Ryle doesn't stop there. He does some inappropriate things to a stranger, and the stranger, Lily, lets him do that.   🌼 Then starts the first love story of the book, that of Atlas and ...