Book Title: Becoming: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet Author: Nadia Janice Brown Publisher: lulu.com Genre:Poetry Pages: 52 Format: Paperback,eBook I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of poems by Nadia Janice Brown. They are spiritual, inspirational and full of ‘writer’ sensibility, which I love. The tone is ‘quiet,’ making this little collection perfect...

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan is a graduate of English Literature from LSR, Delhi and has worked as a journalist for many years. She writes under the pseudonym eM on the hugely popular blog, The Compulsive Confessor. Although her first book, a semi-autobiography, You Are Here might have disappointed ardent reader’s of her blog, her second book, Confessions Of A Listmaniac...

Erich Wolf Segal, the creator of the 1970 New York Times best seller ‘Love Story’ was an American author, script writer and an educator. Love Story was his first most acclaimed book. This book was converted into thirty-three languages and was even made into a motion picture. It was the no.1 box office attraction and even had a sequel called ‘Oliver’s Story’....

I thought you left but you were always there, I didn’t notice but you were the mother and the father who always cared.   You were there in the day and in the peace of the night, I never realized but I was holding you tight.   I loved you when you called me babu and embraced, I missed you when I couldn’t hear those lovely voices during the race.   I...

Beep, beep, I heard the alarm from another room. It was still 5 am. “C’mon, get up baby, it is getting late” my mother said. I was still in my dream land. Oh I wish I could tell her about the dream sequence, which actually happened in reality, where he came near my desk, carefully pulled back a few strands of hair that fell on my face, and then stood frightened,...

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“There’s something about working the streets I like. It’s the tramp in me I suppose”. - Calvero Charlie Chaplin’s character of a tramp takes on a whole new look as the washed out comedian Calvero in his movie  ‘Limelight’. Calvero, once a publicly loved and famous stage performer now lives a drudged life as a drunkard in a small room apartment....

What does de-clutter mean to you? De-clutter = De-stress! To me a clean home, or living space means that I can tackle the stress and pressure at work with ease! De-clutter is the art of removing anything that you don’t really need, and making space for new things to come into your life. The main secret of de-cluttering is being ‘merciless’. If you haven’t used...

You came like a storm last night, With your black curls beside my lonely terrace room. I looked startled at you with wide eyes, I never thought you’d return so soon. I asked you from where you came, how far is that land, You pointed to a far away endless space with your hand. You told me you loved life, and with me you wanted to dance, But life never gave you a chance. I...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977- present) is a Nigerian woman writer, who is also the winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 for her first novel- Purple Hibiscus (2003). She also won the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her best first book. She is known for her civil war-time and semi-autobiographical feminist writings. Her works also talk of love...