Living Amidst Pages

The Blood Telegram by Gary J. Bass is a gripping historical account of the US's inadvertent support for West Pakistan during Bangladesh's...

“You’re right. In a world where doctors can cure cancer and do heart transplants, there isn’t a single pill to treat menstrual cramps.’...

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.” Yesterday, I was by...

"Jealousy wraps its cold claws around my throat and squeezes, hard. And I find myself wishing, not for the first itme, that I wasn't...

“Just then, my mother’s words echoed in my head: stretch your legs only as far as your bed. I was getting too far ahead of myself.” The...

The feeling of space- limitless space- can only be experienced by living in the mountains. Ruskin Bond's Landour Days is the perfect...

“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of."...

“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.” I finished reading Before...

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.” Having finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt just...

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” Having just experienced the...

I recently ended my journey reading Ruby Lal's biography of the Empress Nur Jahan, twentieth wife to the fourth Mughal emperor, Jahangir....