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BOOK REVIEW: UNACCUSTOMED EARTH BY JHUMPA LAHIRI

BOOK REVIEW: UNACCUSTOMED EARTH BY JHUMPA LAHIRI

Posted January 26, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I must say I do not enjoy reading short stories. Especially, a collection of short stories, otherwise if they are properly dramatic and structured, I would read only one or two stories from it. Rarely do I finish a whole book of short stories and this time I did. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri is the collection of eight stories which proves that she indeed is a better writer than the other Indian Authors I have read in my lifetime. She understands the experience she wants a reader to enjoy while reading her words. Her writing style is very natural and effortless and the way she care about each and every character she makes is one thing to be learn […]

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SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MAGAZINE: GRAFFITI

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MAGAZINE: GRAFFITI

Posted January 24, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, MyWorks / 0 Comments

Hello! Fellow Bloggers and Writers, We (Graffiti Team) are coming out with a magazine by the end January 2014. Though Graffiti was just a college magazine, few years before, and is one of longest running magazine of NIT(National Institute of Technology) Kurukshetra, this time we are going online. We are not just a college magazine anymore and our intended audience is the whole world. We will be publishing not more than 300 copies in paperback for the internal  publicity through our college and nearby places but we are also publishing online. This will be our first online issue which will be free to download. Our magazine is intend to be literary. We are covering fiction, poem, comic strips, book and movie […]

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CURRENTLY READING

CURRENTLY READING

Posted January 21, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

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BOOKS ON THE SHELF

BOOKS ON THE SHELF

Posted January 13, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

 

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BOOK REVIEW: SOCCERNOMICS

BOOK REVIEW: SOCCERNOMICS

Posted January 12, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, sports / 0 Comments

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski Anything interesting to read comes in the market about football(or soccer) and being a football fan, it’s like a love at first sight. Soccernomics is the first book that tries to data-mine most of the haughty topics in football. Two authors tries to pair football and statistics and seem very fond of proving themselves by applying some methods which in the end might turn out (or in some case did turn out) right. Majority of the book focuses on big events like FIFA World Cup and European Football Championship. The book is framed chapter by chapter in the form of multiple questions. The authors then to answer these questions, use game results, demographic studies, attendance statistics, […]

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FRIDAY FICTION: CURRENTLY READING

FRIDAY FICTION: CURRENTLY READING

Posted January 3, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 2013

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 2013

Posted December 31, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Still 39 minutes left as I am writing this post. I am much obliged to a lot of things this year that I am not going to waste the precious time listing them. But most precious things to me are books. And yes, each and every I try to read more and more, and I try to learn and explore new things through them. And till now I have been successful. It is fun that this year that I set a target of reading 100 books but could not achieve it, still I manage to read 78 of them. I am also hoping to overcome this number next year with reading more and more. I also learnt a lot in […]

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LAST DAY BUYS

LAST DAY BUYS

Posted December 31, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Last day of year 2013 and some more books!

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365 DAYS, 77 BOOKS! NOW NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

365 DAYS, 77 BOOKS! NOW NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

Posted December 30, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay / 0 Comments

The year 2013 is ending pretty fast for me. Only two days and 40 minutes left. Earlier this year, from day 1, I set a target for myself. Target to read 100 books in 365 days. But I guess, I could not complete it. It was a battle against time, and only a time lord could have won. I am no time lord. But I am happy also, as I could read 28 more books than the last year. So somehow, it is an achievement for me too. This year has been a wonderful reading year for me. I feel I have grown as reader, as my knowledge and my ability to understand and grab literature has grown. Reading is beneficial, always. And I got […]

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BOOK REVIEW: THE NAMESAKE by JHUMPA LAHIRI

BOOK REVIEW: THE NAMESAKE by JHUMPA LAHIRI

Posted December 26, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

The Namesake, was on top of my Christmas holidays book-shopping. I have been waiting for a long time to read it. I haven’t read much of the South Asian origin’s authors, but I certainly did enjoy Jhumpa Lahiri. Her command of the language is amazing. The fluency of her writing clearly shows how effortlessly she must have wrote the book. Her captivating manner of writing is what enthralls me. In a nutshell, the story starts in the form of an immigrant experience. Ashoke and Ashima are first-generation immigrants to the US from India, and they do not have the easiest time adjusting to the peculiarities of their new home and its culture. Gogol, the protagonist, is their son who is tasked with living the double […]

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