My Ramblings

Yeah, the feeling ... Only the one who gets to feel it, can know what I’m talking about.  This summer has been nothing but an idle period of time where I could have done a lot of things but didn’t except for reading some books and bragging about them on GoodReads. So let’s come to the point, I have been boiling here at my place when some people out there are shivering in cold, guess this is what India is proud of ‘Unity in Diversity’. So again, coming to my agony, I have been suffering here in ‘ garmi’ , the record-breaker this time. Apparently, the thermometer has never touched 45.4 ever before.  Anyways, the monsoon rains are coveted more than any daily soap coveted by any housewife. And why not, they ofcourse are providing breads to the various mouths unlike any of the daily soaps. Think of the scenario, you are wishing for simply an impossible. How would you feel if that wish of yours is fulfilled? How happy are you gonna be? This is pretty much what happened to me. The ...

Yesss, finally I completed reading through this book in I-can’t-even-remember number of instalments. This was one of those books which at the start seemed to challenge me if I can even read the whole book, becomes kind of soon-to-get over with so that I could turn to other book but as it tends to approach the end, it catches you off-balance and makes you more mystified than you’d have ever thought. I wished to give a 3.5(on a scale of 5) rating to the whole rigmarole. A brilliant monologue, and a perfect story which makes American intention naked to the whole world so humbly, a cunning plot, this is all what is present inside this book. The character of Changez, brilliant, smart, torn between two earth and sky ideologies., has been portrayed very nicely. The character of Jim too, has been identified as a “god-friend” like character, his beliefs in Changez’s capabilities even after his last-minute betrayal is so emphatic.   Deliberate rhetoric comments about “fundamentalism” were d...

'If you want to learn about the tyranny of Taliban rule, Khaled Hosseini's books are the first you would wanna live it through'. I have been amazed totally with the fluidity with which it has been presented to the readers. Never comes the time when you get weary of ... anything.  This book presents the tale of two female protagonists - Mariam and Laila who develop more of a mother-daughter relationship after being in an ill-fated relationship of being the wives of the same husband. Its so ironical for any society but the truth has been presented in such a beautiful manner that the reader himself becomes retaliated against such existence of the society.  The book starts with an illegitimate but happy child Mariam and then circumstamces forcing her into marrying Rasheed, 30 years senior to her. She is abused by her husband. She tries to find solace by looking into Laila, a girl in her neighbourhood, who is more or less similarly spirited young girl as she had been once ...