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🌟Not getting into the discussion of stereotypical gifting but yes, much before my daughter, I was drawn to pots and pans...
19/08/2026

🌟Not getting into the discussion of stereotypical gifting but yes, much before my daughter, I was drawn to pots and pans collectively known as a KITCHEN SET!

🖊Of course, my mother and her kitchen appliances fascinated me and I would imitate her as well.
Today, again, when she was gifted a kitchen set, I couldn’t help but start setting one up.

🖊During the process, I was reminded of Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s heartfelt poem ‘ Mera Bachpan’ where a mother relives her childhood through her daughter.

🖊Interestingly, the poetess from Allahabad also wrote the famous poem, ‘ Jhansi ki Rani’. Additionally, her birthday is celebrated on the 16th of August, just after Independence Day, which also happens to be the death anniversary of Late Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, another towering poet. In fact, on her 117th birth anniversary, Google celebrated it with a doodle. I read the article in the Indian Express.

🖊All this I came to know as I started typing keywords of the poem. I wasn’t even sure who the poet was as I had read it long back in school. I had two poetesses in mind, either Mahadevi Verma or Subhadra Kumari Chauhan. If not I would have called up my mother. She could have still recollected the stanzas, I am sure.
I couldn’t find the English translation of the poem. But please do read, ‘ Veeron ka kaisa ho Vasant’! It’s awe-inspiring.

P.S- Sometimes eating leftover pancakes too from her tiffin.

Poem courtesy- kaavyalava.com

🌟The stanzas of the poem are not in the correct order due to the screenshot. But every stanza is unique without following an order

As Independence Day is just two days away, i have compiled a list of novels and movies featuring the Indian Independence...
13/08/2026

As Independence Day is just two days away, i have compiled a list of novels and movies featuring the Indian Independence Movement and the aftermath of partition.

Though we recollect a sense of Independence through media like books and movies, haven't the recent reverberations all around India echoed the strength of unity and the undying power of mass activism?

India is, was and will always be a unique nation.

Please go through the compilation and let me know your thoughts.

Jai Hind! 🇮🇳

Being a reader and orthodoxy don’t go hand in hand. That’s why in picking a book such as this requires dusting off years...
10/08/2026

Being a reader and orthodoxy don’t go hand in hand. That’s why in picking a book such as this requires dusting off years of indoctrination around ta**ra. If I ask anyone here about ta**ra or ta***ic, the answers are really in the grey. Some voodoo outlandish stuff, ain’t it?

Ta**ra before merging into religion was a culture centred around rituals that revered sexual union as a path to liberation. Then how come a religious culture, that is, Buddhism merged with ta***ic practices? Buddhism’s worldview revolved around austerity and renunciation. Asceticism, according to Young isn’t enough to renunciation as Buddha in course of enlightenment integrated the female aspect in accepting food from Sujata.

The Buddhist biography, iconography and ritual have presented contradictory and conflicting views on women and sexuality. Women have been denigrated in texts yet upheld as symbols like Buddha’s mother, Queen Maya- the symbol of fertility and auspiciousness. Ta***ic courtesans in Indo-Tibetan tradition are seen as divine as they evoke the symbol of fertility in facilitating male enlightenment. Ta**ra, therefore, in Buddhism is rather different as the emphasis is more on enlightenment rather than an end it itself.

When Alexander Cunningham rediscovered Khajuraho in 1838, his Victorian morality was scandalised. The depiction of sexual imagery on temple walls- how erotica merged with religion and when it suffered a decline? When concept of chastity was transgressed by ta**ra, how would you explain offence that simply celebrated the feminine?

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After watching The Odyssey, I had to bring up, especially, the bow scene. If you notice the similarity with the Indian m...
30/07/2026

After watching The Odyssey, I had to bring up, especially, the bow scene. If you notice the similarity with the Indian mythology, Ramayana, you aren’t alone. Perhaps, when one dives into the study of comparative mythology one will draw many cross-cultural parallels.
Myths form the basis of any civilisation.
With narratives and the recurring motifs in it, we understand the interconnectedness of world we live in. Wasn’t that particular scene an epitome of cultural transmission and shared emotion?

Did you know? In 1992, a Japanese filmmaker named Yugo Sako created an animated film called Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama. Very much in the beautiful style of Japanese Jungle Book that all of us must have watched, but with even better animations.

The movie was made in Hindi and English and had many famous actors (for voice) like Arun Govil, Amrish Puri, and Namrata Sawhney. It was rated very highly (9.2) on IMDb, even higher than other films about Ramayana and the TV show made by Ramanand Sagar.

However, the movie was not released in India for over three years because of religious tensions and political appeasement at the time. Eventually, the Hindi version was shown on Doordarshan in 1995 less than a year before 1996 elections.

And today both versions can be watched on YouTube. We recommend you to watch it if you haven’t already.

Source: India Community Digest

Explore Russian literary giants through movies. 👇🏻1. Doctor Zhivago(1965) is a novel by Boris Pasternak, published in 19...
27/07/2026

Explore Russian literary giants through movies. 👇🏻

1. Doctor Zhivago(1965) is a novel by Boris Pasternak, published in 1957.

8. Pickpocket(1959), is loosely based on Dostoevsky’s ‘ Crime and Punishment ‘ .

7. Partner(1968), is based on Dostoevsky’s novella ‘ The Double’.

4. The Brothers Karamazov(1958), is based on Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name.

6. Two Lovers(2008) starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix, is loosely based on Dostoevsky’s short story , ‘ White Night’ .

3. The Seagull(1975), a play by Anton Chekhov, is considered one of the major plays in Russian drama.

2. Anna Karenina ( 2012) starring Keira Knightly, is adapted by Tom Stoppard from Leo Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. The novel was published in instalments from (1873-1877).

5. War and Peace ( 1956), casting Audrey Hepburn, is a novel by Leo Tolstoy of the same name. Considered Tolstoy’s finest achievements, it chronicles the French Invasion of Russia.

That’s all on Russian Literature. I request you all to like and share. Your valued comments and suggestions are welcome.

In an already competitive world,having agency wasn’t supposed to be competitive.
24/07/2026

In an already competitive world,having agency wasn’t supposed to be competitive.

Just when the world bowed to Nolan’s magnificence in Odyssey, here’s a Homeric look to the epic! In a canon of Classics,...
18/07/2026

Just when the world bowed to Nolan’s magnificence in Odyssey, here’s a Homeric look to the epic!

In a canon of Classics, an epic no degree lesser than ‘ The Ramayana’ and ‘ The Mahabharata’, Homer’s ‘ Iliad’ and the ‘ Odyssey’ are the Greek equivalent to Indian epics.

TEN CITIES THAT INSPIRED GREAT LITERATURE : 1. STRATFORD-UPON AVON, ENGLANDIt is the birthplace of William Shakespeare 2...
17/07/2026

TEN CITIES THAT INSPIRED GREAT LITERATURE :

1. STRATFORD-UPON AVON, ENGLAND

It is the birthplace of William Shakespeare

2. DUBLIN, IRELAND

It is the home of great luminaries like James Joyce, W.B Yeats and Samuel Beckett.

3. KYOTO, JAPAN

It is the setting of Arthur Golden’s best-selling novel, ‘ Memoirs of a Geisha’

4. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, USA

It is the world of Ernest Hemingway.

5. PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

This city has inspired Franz Kafka to write many works.

6. CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, USA

Authors like Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau lived and penned their iconic works.

7. CARTAGENA, Colombia

This city brought to life Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magic realism novels.

8. St. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

Famed authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Alexander Pushkin found inspiration.

9. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, USA

It has been an inspiration for Tennessee Williams plays and Anne Rice’s iconic novels ‘ The Vampire chronicles’.

10. HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, USA

It is the hometown of America’s beloved author, Mark Twain. It is the backdrop for many of his works- ‘ Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and ‘ The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn’.

Pic Credit- Google

The never - ending conundrum!
16/07/2026

The never - ending conundrum!

Ah, that feeling of finishing my first Marquez! It had been lying on my shelf for seven years now. A gigantic name in th...
13/07/2026

Ah, that feeling of finishing my first Marquez!

It had been lying on my shelf for seven years now. A gigantic name in the world of literature, and by now, most have read or had a brush with Marquez during their college years. But I remained an exception. I did buy the book out of curiosity and also to sound like a mature reader. But I don’t think 7-8 years ago, I had that maturity of understanding the book. Of the three books I bought, the book I read was ‘Love and Other Demons.’

Written in Spanish in 1994 and translated into English by Edith Grossman just a year in 1995, the book is 160 pages, and the Colombian author has set the plot in 18th-century Colombia. The story follows Sierva Maria, the twelve-year-old daughter of a Marqués bitten by a rabid dog. Confined to a convent over the speculation of contracting rabies and her eventual death is a folklore which the journalist strives to piece together on discovering her broken crypt and the overflowing 22-meter-long hair still attached to her skull.

Brought up by slaves, short of attention from parents, the girl is the victim of the times she lives in. Wading their way through defiance and disobedience, she and Delaura spend some tender moments in the cell reciting poetry. True to its title, there’s love surrounded by other demons. The demons being numerous, what stands out is Garcia’s depiction of the Catholic church as an antagonist to reason. A cautionary tale if you read it from the perspective of Abernuncio, the man of reason. Perhaps, dissent and transgression are demonic, and exorcism is performed to kowtow to the social norms.

The narrative style brings out the desultory times of the slave trades and the wealthy living off the slave trades. The various threads to the narrative are so masterfully woven that the initial hiccups pave the way for a heartbreaking read.

Will Delaura be able to prove Sierva’s sanity in an institution seeped in superstition? “ An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead…’ will remain a memorable opening line for me.

P.S- in the following slides are the moments around Marquez! 👉

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