From Emotional Confusion to Self-Awareness
Book: Trapped Among The FamiLIAR | Author: Aniket Sarkar | Category: Psychological Self-Help —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Some books begin with a problem that is easy to define. Trapped Among The…
Checkmate, Closure and the Courage to Finish a Grand Story
The final book of a trilogy has a special kind of emotional pressure. Readers do not arrive at it empty-handed. They bring memories of earlier characters, expectations created by previous conflicts, unanswered questions, and a desire to understand why…
More Than Survival – A Book About Building a Culture of Safety
The wider social value of making preparedness a shared responsibility I’m Ready for Anything (IRA) can be read as a personal safety guide, but its larger idea is more ambitious: preparedness should become part of culture. Harrshad Badage’s…
Literary Fiction with Emotional Intelligence at Its Core
Gazala Shahin’s Echoes of Heart arrives with a clear literary ambition: to explore the internal landscapes of people whose most important struggles are not always visible from the outside. Classified as general fiction, the novel combines psychological…
आध्यात्मिकता को जीवन के बीच वापस लाने वाली पुस्तक
आध्यात्मिक साहित्य के सामने एक पुरानी चुनौती रही है: वह जितना ऊंचा सोचता है, कभी-कभी उतना ही सामान्य जीवन से दूर दिखाई देने लगता है। डॉ. पंकज सूदन की “आओ चलें” इस दूरी को कम करने वाली पुस्तक है। यहां आध्यात्मिकता किसी रहस्यमय, भारी या जीवन-विरोधी क्षेत्र…
A Meaningful Contribution for Tabla Players, Vocalists, Teachers, and Music Lovers
The most valuable specialist books are often those that take a familiar subject and reveal an aspect of it that deserves far more attention. Dr. Sandesh Raaje’s “Shastriya/Upashastriya Gayanamadhil Tabla Sangat” does exactly that. Tabla is one of the…
A Reader’s Take – Tender, Modern, Imperfect, and Hard to Forget
I went into My Orchid expecting a straightforward romantic novella, and I came away feeling that it is much more emotionally crowded—in a good way—than the premise first suggests. On the surface, the hook is easy to explain: a young man recovering from…
A Mature Voice in Tamil Writing – Reading Sowganthi in the Context of Mekala Chitravel’s Literary Journey
Sowganthi becomes especially interesting when read in the context of Mekala Chitravel’s remarkable literary journey. A writer who has completed one hundred books in Tamil does not arrive at a family novel with only the experience of fiction. Her work…
For the Fixers – A Reflective Love Story About Effort, Release, and Becoming
“The Autumn is for the fixers.” Few descriptions of a love story identify their intended reader so immediately. The phrase speaks to people who respond to difficulty with action: they explain, repair, accommodate, plan, wait, try again, and assume that…
Ashoka, Crescent and Dragon – An Ambitious Geopolitical Portrait of an Unfinished Question
Book: Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent | Author: Col Madhur Goyal, SM The title Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent immediately announces that Col Madhur Goyal, SM is interested in more than chronology. The book uses symbols to…