Ten Day Book Blog Posts Challenge #1

Posted September 22, 2018 by @amanhimself in blog, Blogging Tips, Books / 10 Comments

One of the hardest thing about blogging is consistently writing and publish blog posts and for that, you have to keep coming up with the ideas. Often times, I find myself blank when thinking or writing a blog post that is not a book review. I haven’t posted a non-book in a while. So I thought, I’d try to help others who might find themselves in the same situation as of me. Below in this post, I compile a list of 10 (ten) ideas for possible blog posts for a book blogger. It follows a pattern of ten days in which you have to consistently write. Does not matter that you post them one after the other, I do not […]

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Guest Post – The Girl with Golden Highlights by Harsha Sheelam

Posted April 12, 2018 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 1 Comment

I’m sure you would agree that this story has a happy ending. She was hardly any older than 6 years when her parents, living in a small town of rural India physically abused her, kept her devoid of education and made her do household chores. Now, when I say they belonged to ‘India’, I can hear judgments and pictures of slums thrown at me. No, India’s literacy rate is at 74.04% and also boasts of a few largest companies in the world. Now, let’s go back in 2012 when I came across a little girl. I still don’t know her name, but let’s call her Meera. Meera was born in Haryana, she lived there with her parents. Today, she doesn’t […]

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My 500th Blog Post

Posted February 16, 2017 by @amanhimself in Authors, Blogging Tips / 0 Comments

500 posts feel like little piece of milestone. I wasn’t looking to this when I started blogging. Blogging has definitely changed my life Blogging has definitely changed my life in these ways: Its a door that leads to many more doors. It gave me my first opportunity to get published as poet. Blogging has help to revive my reading habit and stick to it no matter what.

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The Blog Recap, Recollecting the Past

Posted October 12, 2014 by @amanhimself in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

Before anything, I thank all fellow bloggers and readers who spent their time here in nourishing and motivating me to keep going with the blog through their words of appreciation. Thereby, I also welcome new visitors. Recently, due to my mind-boggling curios mind, I took an hour from everything and decided to give a look at all of my posts irrespective of the topic (though, it’s not a surprise that mostly are related to books) I have written here in the past 2 years and a few months. Starting from the first one which felt evident till the recent one. It brings a recollection of memories whether the good memories, bad memories, the frustration ones, the generous ones and most importantly the feeling of accomplishment. All of these and […]

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GUEST POST: Zareen Naqvi- When your mom gets engaged before you do

Posted June 20, 2014 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

It’s always fun to get to know fellow bloggers! I’m glad I have met so many. And am longing to meet more. Thus, I thought why not invite “Guest Bloggers” to my blog and share their experience in their own words? Well here is the first one. WHEN YOUR MOM GETS ENGAGED BEFORE YOU DO by Zareen Naqvi First off, congratulations! Your mum snagged a fella before you. She told him to put a ring on it and he did. Unlike your ring finger, which is dry, lonely and vacant. Not to mention, without a ring.