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Fallen: Book Review by Asha Seth

Author: Shamar M. McFarlane | Genre: Poetry | Pages: 180 Fallen is a book that illuminates the idea of a loss of divinity or what we would call innocents. Every word, every line and every page means something different. They have the power to guide those who haven’t yet found their way but also can…

Between Dusk & Dawn…

By: Asha Seth Jan 18, 2022Jan 18, 2022

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Can you love someone if you don’t know them yet? Can you unlove someone after you get to know them? Is it possible to shed those feelings after people change? And once you’ve harbored a certain kind of affection for someone, how do you go on living like before, after learning that a meaningless affection…

Best Books of 2021

By: Asha Seth Jan 17, 2022Jan 19, 2022

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2021 was a year of rereads. I did not have any massive reading goals because I was mostly just rereading my old favorites. Even so, I read a total of 60 books out of which 32 were some old classics and contemporaries that I was revisiting, and remaining 30 were new titles. Among those 30,…

An Epiphany

By: Asha Seth Jan 15, 2022Jan 15, 2022

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You tug at your ear lobe. Once, twice. You did that as our eyes met today. When I’m alone in the clouds, I imagine you doing that. You’d said, it’s when your heart’s racing past a hundred beats , when you can’t stop it from wanting something, is when you do that. I guess to…

Sita’s Kitchen: Book Review by Asha Seth

By: Asha Seth Jan 14, 2022Jan 18, 2022

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Author: Raghav Khanna | Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Food | Pages: 220 This is a tale of self-discovery of a young girl, Sita, from the Himalayas, who forges her own path to success, with determination as a chef, starting from a small kitchen in Himachal to becoming a professional chef at a gourmet restaurant in London.…

सांसें

उन खामोशियों पे दिल हारती चली गयी… शब्द क्या कह पाते जो तुम्हारी सांसें बयाँ कर गयीं…

By: Asha Seth Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022

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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

Neil Gaiman

Day 1266: When Dad Left for his Maker

By: Asha Seth Jan 11, 2022Jan 18, 2022

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I guess what tends to amaze me the most is – people. They are unpredictable, insensitive, and for most part, just unbearable. *Of course, not all of them!* I write about dad, about what I feel without him, because I don’t want to lose him, not yet. You must think I’m stupid, plain daft. That…

City of Djinns: Book Review by Asha Seth

Author: William Dalrymple | Genre: Non-fiction, Travel | Pages: 360 Delhi is a city like no other, one which, in spite of being as old as time, is culturally dominated by relatively new dwellers. Interspersed with accounts of meeting assorted Delhiwallahs including Sufis, eunuchs, Persian scholars and an Englishwoman who stays behind after the Raj’s…

Enough – Micropoetry

By: Asha Seth Jan 3, 2022Jan 15, 2022

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I never wanted the ocean just a few carefree waves were enough just a few… * * * * * #badbookthiefpoetry Find a whole bunch of my pieces on Instagram. Just visit the link below.

ऐ जिंदगी…

पल दो पल ठहरकर कभी हमें भी तो देख जिंदगी तेरी मीठी शरारतों में घुलना बाकी है अभी… पल दो पल पलटकर कभी हमें भी तो देख जिंदगी तेरी नमकीन मस्तियों को चखना बाकी है अभी… पल दो पल मुस्कुराकर कभी हमें भी तो देख जिंदगी तेरी हसीन मधोशियों में बिखरना बाकी है अभी…

Friends in Foreign Places

By: Asha Seth Dec 29, 2021Dec 29, 2021

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The more I think about it, the more it feels that the book I am working on is one that the ones who know me would hate me for. Why would I want to bring something like that to life? Let alone for the world to read. Little do they know that there aren’t a…

Scars, like Stars…

she hides them but they peek anyway she paints them but they peel away she looks at them hard when she’s alone she relives those stories that have long gone she distances herself from the world so piercing she worries she’ll be judged reduced to mockery she aches to be sans them she longs to…

What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror: Book Review by Asha Seth

By: Asha Seth Nov 8, 2021Nov 8, 2021

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Author: Nikita Singh | Genre: Short Stories | Pages: 268 A young couple decides to die together when they are old, but when it’s time, one of them isn’t done living. A child fosters plants in a month-long challenge. A woman makes a desperate attempt to rescue her brother from his demons. A groom-to-be meets…

Lamps – Micropoetry

By: Asha Seth Nov 4, 2021Nov 4, 2021

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that one night dimmed the shine of a million stars for them rustic lamps burned fiercer than the sun * * * * * #badbookthiefpoetry Happy Diwali! May you have a prosperous one.🪔🪔🪔 Find a whole bunch of my pieces on Instagram. Just visit the link below.

Alone with Everybody

By: Asha Seth Nov 3, 2021Nov 3, 2021

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The city is full The streets are full The houses cramped The hearts too Mouths full of words Eyes full of worlds They are everywhere Everywhere is full of them No corner is empty No sky bereft The seas overflow The shores too They eclipse me They resurrect me I am but Alone with everybody

This night sky…

By: Asha Seth Nov 2, 2021Jan 9, 2022

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This night sky this dark deserted sky I feel it’s a bit off seeing me so full of everything one could ask for and the sky missing the one it longs for Does it know you’ve got to seem full to not feel empty inside? Does it see everything I hide within things that lurk…

7 Classic Halloween Reads

🎃Happy Halloween, friends.🎃 Halloween is here and wondering what you should indulge in? Here’s a list I curated just for you. Whether you are a horror lover or otherwise, these darlings will not fail you, and keep you glued to the page just the right bit. Now, some of these are beginner level horror, so…

By: Asha Seth Oct 10, 2021Jan 13, 2022

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“Dumbledore watched her fly away,
and as her silvery glow faded
he turned back to Snape,
and his eyes were full of tears.
“After all this time?”
“Always,” said Snape.”

J.K. Rowling

A Tale of Two Medics: Book Review by Asha Seth

By: Asha Seth Sep 8, 2021Oct 30, 2021

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Author: Dr. V. Srinivas | Genre: Medical Fiction | Pages: 208 Medicine is a noble profession, but an unscrupulous doctor can turn it into abusiness and create a bad name for the whole medical community.Why would a doctor exploit a patient’s unwavering trust to embark on thisunethical path? Follow two doctors, born in the same…

Murdrum: Book Review by Asha Seth

Author: Sohil Makwana | Genre: Crime Thriller| Pages: 297 A horrifying decapitated head. A CBI intern on an assignment finds mysterious ‘Two Dots’ from a cold case. Human DNA is extracted from a mosquito’s stomach. “Why had Harold Shipman killed 250 women?” A question of criminal psychology enters the picture. Against the corrupt system, a…