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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 […]
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
GUEST POST: My experience with AudioBooks by Crafty Reader Posted January 23, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 12 Comments Audiobooks isn’t a very new trend. It is a rather a new commercial trend. I first came across the very idea of audiobook when I was watching the movie The Reader(http
GUEST POST: Marianna's Five Favourite Books Posted August 20, 2017 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 0 Comments “Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.” – Neil Gaiman OK. Five books? Really? Out of the hundred I read this year alone…I know i
Guest Post: To make a writer by Peter Gray Posted May 26, 2017 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post, Non-Fiction / 0 Comments Telemachus, how did it come about? For someone who has spent a long career treating Thoroughbred horses – for everything from infertility to racing performance – the transfor
GUEST POST: Joanna Paterson Posted November 20, 2016 by @amanhimself in Authors, Guest Post / 0 Comments My two books of short stories, “The Old Turk and Other Tales” and “Through the Mirror”, examine that tricky balance between experience and the spiritual world that anyone—and the author—would enc
GUEST POST: Do E-books Allow Us to Read Books Properly? Posted October 22, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 0 Comments Do E-books Allow Us to Read Books Properly? by Cassie The popularity of e-books has grown over the years. It’s no surprise why e-readers have taken off. You can store tho
GUEST POST- Sometimes I feel like an Alien by Mannah Pierce Posted May 7, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 2 Comments Sometimes I feel like an alien by Mannah Pierce There is this fast moving, transient, internet-based world that I do not understand and where I do not belong: Twitter; Facebook;
GUEST POST- Welcome to the City of Joy by Nilesh Rathod Posted April 21, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 3 Comments Welcome to the City of Joy by Nilesh Rathod India is a republic of laughable samples. With that I mean, people, and in that I mean government. They can construe scrupulous ways to
GUEST POST: From Lawyer to Author by Sheila Agnew Posted February 15, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 5 Comments From Lawyer to Author in Lots of Forward, Backward and Side-Steps by Sheila Agnew I count myself very lucky to have grown up in Ireland where books are as much a part of the national
GUEST POST- Gun Control by Richard Rensberry Posted December 26, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 5 Comments Time flies, doesn’t it. Well, this the 12th and the last guest post of the Guest Post program I started earlier this year. Next year, I won’t be conducting this ones a month activity. But