Delhi Crime

Delhi Crime is an Indian web series released as a Netflix original. The seven episode series showcases the minutest of details of the heinous crime that took place in December 2012 in Delhi - a girl gang rape. The crime was so atrocious that the rage of whole of the country could be seen, heard and felt.

 

The girl (who was named as Nirbhaya) was gang raped inside a moving bus in the so called lively streets of Delhi. The series exposes these rapists & displays the courageous work done by Delhi police in catching hold of these culprits merely in 5 days.

 

The way Delhi Police worked tirelessly solving the crime handling the political pressure, nations protests and media's sledging was commendable. Not to forget, these officers were dealing with their personal problems as well, which is depicted beautifully.

 

The story begins when the girl is gang-raped & thrown on the streets with her friend. As things progress, the intelligence and bravery of officers is seen as they nab all the accused, some with fake names, some who fled and one who was juvenile. The minuscule details and every scene keeps you on the edge of your seats.

 

The story depicts the emotional breakdown of accused themselves, the catching and running around, the cat and mouse game and inner politics that goes on. It showcases the way case was solved and not the way it is exhibited by media. 

 

DCP Vartika Chaturvedi (played by Shefali Shah) had totally immersed herself in the role. Dialogue delivery is empowering & her character is powerful who isn't afraid to point out the irresponsibility of her team member but makes sure everyone gets meal on time. Bhupendra Singh (played by Rajesh Tailang) who is the right hand of DCP, had given a stellar performance. His presence is felt on screen, be it while using his brains or using the slang language. All other casts have supported exceptionally.

 

The role played by the main accused is breath taking. The moment he accepts and describes the crime, our heart goes numb and we feel gutted to the core. We know, animals live in our society. But what about the animals within us, when this is unleashed, such atrocities are bound to happen.

 

Richie Mehta is his direction is remarkable and has not shied away in showing the dirty streets or low living standards in Delhi. Cinematography and screenplay everything is to the point.

 

Someone tearing apart our body, the imagination of this thought shakes the whole of us. Just thinking of what the girl had to go through was enough to get our temper soaring. A special mention to the Delhi police in keeping there anger in check and bringing justice lawfully.

 

The feeling that parents of the girl had to go through, seeing their child in such devastated state, brings tears to the eyes. The scene where the girl is seen giving her statement to the District Magistrate, shivers you physically, emotionally and mentally.

 

Laws got amended and things changed but the expense that society had to pay in the form of girl's life cannot be undone. 2012 to 2020, 8 long years, that's how much time it took to get justice and culprits being hanged to death. It was more like the accused against the whole nation as the country stood for the girl. The incident did change the society but there are things which are still neglected. A great awareness has been created through the series and kudos for taking the risk of bringing the true face of the crime to the audience.

 

A must watch recommendation for everyone, to understand how the police works and also to restore the faith and respect in policeman of the country. Subscribe to Netflix and put this in your watch list. You won't be disappointed.

 

You will be left a little more emotional than you are and with a special place in your heart for this epic drama.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

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Looking For Alaska

Looking for Alaska is John Green’s debut novel which was received very well worldwide but with a bit of controversy for its certain explicit contents. It has been nominated for and won many awards and accolades.

Tired and bored of his hitherto uneventful life, Miles “Pudge” Halter who is obsessed with memorizing last words of famous dead people, heads off to Culver Creek Boarding School in Albama with the sole purpose of searching his “Great Perhaps” (Inspired by a poet named Rabelais’s last words,  “I go to seek a Great Perhaps”).

At the school, Miles makes great friends with his roommate, Chip Martin aka “The Colonel”, classmates, Takumi Hikohito, and Alaska Young. Alaska is a young, beautiful yet wild and reckless young girl whom Miles falls in love with.

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

Looking for Alaska is divided into two halves titled simply as “Before” and “After” with reference to a tragic event that forms a substantial part of the novel. The first half consists of a nice, easy-going storyline of teen students attending their classes, preparing for their exams, gang rivalry, indulging into pranks and adventures, and the inevitable falling in love and talking to each other asking questions such as Simon Bolivar’s last words:

“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”

So what’s the labyrinth?’ I asked her…

That’s the mystery, isn’t it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape- the world or the end of it?”

This “labyrinth” becomes a central discussion encompassing all characters at one point when the After comes. That’s when the book loses the mundane and reaches the momentous. And it is a grave, serious, painful and genuine journey until we are able to close the book.

This debut novel of John Green is not one of those routine love stories involving a boy and a girl who happen to fall in love, face certain hurdles but ultimately reach their happily ever after. It is much more than a story of Alaska Young as the title may suggest. Looking for Alaska touches the vulnerable and much less talked about aspects of life. The entire novel felt to me like an attempt to find out the answer to Bolivar’s question of how to get out of the labyrinth that everyone encounters during their lifetime and maybe in their afterlife as well.

The novel showcases its characters identifying and trying to find a way out of their respective labyrinths. For Miles, it was a labyrinth of suffering. And he acknowledges that despite his sufferings he continues to have faith in his “Great Perhaps” implying that for him this Great Perhaps is finding a meaning to his life through the inevitable grief and sufferings. The novel deals with the aftermath of a death, the process of its acceptance, grieving, and learning to live with it, healing one day at a time.

The major themes of the novel are death, sufferings, loss, and grief. But as the novel reaches its conclusion, Green has beautifully woven them all together with a radiant and strong thread of hope. Hope in the form of forgiveness and acceptance.

“So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her.”

“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slow, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone.”

Looking for Alaska is a journey of self-discovering, of identifying ones Great Perhaps and labyrinths. It explore the true understanding of how forgiveness buds from within and eventually, how the resultant love blooms. If one loves another, if one feels strongly enough, can the aggregate of those emotions become a sum greater than the original? Can loving someone satisfy even without ever truly knowing them? Those are the answers you might find somewhere in the pages of this book.  For me, Looking for Alaska is a sad, funny, inspiring and compelling tale of love and life.

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Betaal

Betaal is an Indian Web-series released over Netflix which revolves around ZOMBIES. The story unfolds when a remote Indian village is taken up for development and civilization by trying to connect it with better part of the modern world, by a TUNNEL which goes through a mountain - BETAAL MOUNTAIN.

 

This mountain is believed by the fellow villagers to be cursed by an ancient black magic. Despite constant rebel and resistance from the villagers not to open the Tunnel, the warning is unheard and rest that happens is a horrendous chain of events with an other-worldly creature attack.

 

The background is spooky and shots are breath-taking. The initial encounter or the stay at the 'BARRACKS' everything sets the story perfectly in motion. After the curse is released, the leftover crew along with other villagers stay at a remote place unaware of dangers with them and after effects of dead people they were carrying with themselves. The story is then about survival. Will the crew be able to survive and if yes, what about the curse ??

 

Vikram Sirohi (played by Vineet Kumar) is a Second in Command Officer and a puppet to Commander Tyagi (played by Suchitra Pillai). The puppet who is used by the Commander to do all the dirty work and who believes it to be his duty and sheer dedication to his superior. Vikram Sirohi is exceptional and has played his character to perfection with to the point dialogue delivery and great display of courage and brains at times.

 

DC Ahlu (played by Aahana Kumra) is a rebel who questions every act and is constantly reminding Sirohi of his deeds. Suchitra Pillai (famous for her negative roles on television) plays her character like a gem. The roles played by all the supporting actors blends with the script.

 

Direction by Patrick Graham, who also happens to have directed 'GHOUL' has done a decent job. The horror scenes & VFX effects are topnotch. The 'Zombie' character really scares you and something terrific has been done with their Red Eyes which looks scary yet gripping.

 

The initial 15-20 seconds of the first episode, gives you goosebumps with great expectation. But as the story progresses, it becomes predictable. The horror, no doubt is one the best in Bollywood in recent times, which goes in the category of TUMBAAD.

 

As dark as it gets, the try by Indian cinema in the Zombie Universe is appreciating. The Zombie character doesn't feel forceful. The context of the story, however is dull and focus keeps shifting.

 

Likewise as in Indian cinema, it has an emotional background with 'righting the wrongs' and 'paybacks a Karma'.

 

Red Chillies Production which is released as a Netflix Original is a decent try and praiseworthy. The 4-episode series, as said is predictable but leaves a impressive plot for season 2 to be established which is more interesting.

 

I highly recommend this one for the dark and horror genre followers. Also, a must watch for Zombie lovers.

 

A satisfactory direction with great acting and extravagant VFX effects, I rate it as 4 out of 5 stars and a thumbs up for going out of the box rather than going with old style Bollywood movies.

Watch the trailer on YouTube here.

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Extraction

The debut direction of Sam Hargrave titled "Extraction", is an action - packed thriller set in the backdrop of Bangladesh. Tyler Rake (played by Chris Hemsworth), a merciless mercenary is hired by an Indian drug lord (played by Pankaj Tripathi) to rescue his son, Ovi Mahajan (played by Rudhraksh Jaiswal) who is held captive by Amir Asif, a gangster from Bangladesh (played by Priyanshu Painyuli).

The wham-bam begins right from the word go, when Ovi is captured from Mumbai and taken to Dhaka, where Amir Asif controls the country's police and military. Subsequently, as things are set in motion, Chris Hemsworth is seen putting his life in danger which gets deadlier and meaner every second. Half hour into the movie and you are already glued to your seats with impressive combat sequences, flying bullets and crashing cars. The climax is even more gory which has a buffet of weapons. The prolonged action scene goes all guns blazing with thrilling twists as Tyler and Ovi try to escape from the bondage of goons.

Extraction cast strictly revolves around Chris Hemsworth and it won't be wrong to say he is center of attraction in his in-house production. Quite a remarkable way to make some money. He is outstanding as an individual performer and our very own ASGUARDIAN, does not disappoint. Rudhraksh Jaiswal is strictly ok & the role could have been played much better. 

Not to forget the onscreen presence of Randeep Hooda, who has played a dark-horse. His character of Saju, is full of resilience and grit, dedicated towards the task given to him. He is seen throwing punches against OUR MIGHTY THOR, taking his role at par & totally justifying why he is considered as a stalwart in Bollywood.

Golshifteh Farahani, who has played the role of Nik Khan, leader of the team is indecisive but has an impactful presence onscreen with RPG's and sniper. Screenplay by Joe Russo, reminds us of great work done in AVENGERS.

BG Music gives us goosebumps and perfectly balances the chase scenes to keep everyone engrossed. The camera work and Sam Hargrave's direction go hand in hand in capturing the locations and streets of Bangladesh, to depict the visually stunning action sequences.

Extraction is impressive and very realistic on the grounds that it does not portray a Hero as indestructible. The high-octane movie has a sensible emotional touch to it as well.

In all, I would strongly recommend this one for Action lovers as it is a sight for the sore eyes. Grab your popcorn, get that Netflix up and running and get ready for a swash buckling adventure.

 

- A more than 6.8 IMDB rating for Extraction Movie & a 'NO-MISS' from my side !!!

Watch the Trailer on YouTube here.

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Wuthering Heights

 

 

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is quite frankly one of the best works in classic English literature. It has a strong narrative. It’s not only a gripping read but also a gorgeously crafted piece of fiction. Though it is often termed as a love story, what you will find in abundance is hate, disgust, revenge, sadness, madness, and a few supernatural instances as well. You  will find yourself hating each and every character. Wuthering Heights is still astoundingly beautiful and the only novel by Emily Brontë as she died shortly after the novel was published.

The novel comprises of a small world with a handful of characters with the settings either at Thrushcross Grange or the Wuthering Heights. On a very basic level, the novel is the story of love between Mr. Heathcliff and Catherine and how that affected or rather destroyed their lives and that of those around them as well.

The story begins with Mr. Lockwood, a young and wealthy man, who is a tenant at Thrushcross Grange. On reaching the place, he decided to pay a visit to the landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives at Wuthering Heights. Mr. Lockwood describes Heathcliff as a grumpy and ungracious host. Heathcliff lives with Cathy Heathcliff, his daughter-in-law, and Hareton Earnshaw who he treats very harshly like a servant, and yet, his name, ‘Earnshaw,’ adorns over the front door. On one of his succeeding visit to Wuthering Heights, Lockwood is forced to shelter there overnight due to a turbulent snowstorm where he encounters a ghostly visitation of the by then dead Catherine.

After a terrified and sick Lockwood returns home to Thrushcross Grange, he coaxes the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, who has earlier worked at Wuthering Heights, into telling him the story of those bizarre inhabitants at the Heights. She recounts a very complicated story of two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons.

 Mr. Earnshaw, a gentleman, owns Wuthering Heights. He has two children, Hindley and Catherine, and adopts a third, Heathcliff. Hindley is jealous of Heathcliff because both his father and his sister are very fond of the youngster. To avoid strife, Mr. Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college, during which time Catherine and Heathclifff become extremely close. Mr. Earnshaw dies, and Hindley, with a new wife, returns to claim Wuthering Heights. Still bitter, Hindley forces Heathcliff to give up his education and treats him like a servant. Hindley's wife dies soon after giving birth to a baby boy, Hareton. Hindley descends into alcoholism, though he continues to abuse and mistreat Heathcliff.

Catherine is injured during one of the moor excursions with Heathcliff and the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange carry her into their home and dismiss Heathcliff.

The Lintons have two children—Edgar and Isabella, well mannered and gracious. Catherine stays with them for five weeks while she recovers and returns home as a graceful and cultured young woman enticed by Edgar's wealth and blonde beauty. 

As they grow up, Edgar falls in love with Catherine and proposes her. Although her feelings for Heathcliff is very deep, Catherine tells Nelly that she can't marry Heathcliff because of how Hindley has degraded him. Heathcliff overhears Catherine and flees Wuthering Heights that night deeply hurt by the betrayal.

Three years pass. Hindley and his wife have a child named, Hareton. After his wife dies, Hindley loses himself into gambling and alcohol, neglecting Hareton and leaving his upbringing to Nelly. Catherine marries Edgar Linton where she lives with a loving husband and sister-in-law and all is well until Heathcliff returns who is now rich and dignified but just as wild and ravaging. He moves into Wuthering Heights and is welcomed by Hindley who is piled under debts and lusts after Heathcliff’s wealth. Catherine is overly happy to see him while Edgar resents him to the core. He tries to keep them apart but Catherine continues to meet Heathcliff. Catherine tells Heathcliff, on one of the subsequent meetings, that Isabella has a crush on him.

The growing proximity between Isabella and Heathcliff (which is actually Heathcliff’s plan of action to destroy the Lintons) and Edgar’s demand that she must choose one between him and Heathcliff vexes her and she responds by locking herself and refusing to eat for three days. She falls severely ill. Not knowing this, Heathcliff elopes with Isabella and both get married. As a result, Edgar ceases all ties with Isabella.

Edgar nurses Catherine for two months. Her health improves somewhat, though not completely. She also discovers that she is pregnant. At Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff treats Isabella terribly from the moment after their wedding, and Isabella realizes that he is still in love with Catherine.

Concerned about her well being, Heathcliff visits Catherine in Edgar’s absence where they both profess their deep and continuing love for each other despite being married to different people.

That night, Catherine gives birth to a girl who is named Cathy and dies a few hours later. Catherine is buried in a spot overlooking the moors where she used to play with Heathcliff as a child.

Her death leaves Edgar, who truly loved her, heartbroken and Heathcliff turns more into a fanatic. Isabella, pregnant, escapes from Heathcliff’s brutality to London, where she gives birth to a baby boy, whom she names Linton. A few years later, she also dies. Hindley, who is deeply indebted to Heathcliff, dies soon after and his son, Hareton is then subjected to the same subjugation as him by Heathcliff. Heathcliff thereby becomes the owner of Wuthering Heights.

Edgar Linton brings his nephew Linton home after twelve years. By then, Cathy has grown into a beautiful young woman while Hareton grows into an illiterate and coarse youth. Heathcliff insists that his son Linton come to live with him at Wuthering Heights. As Linton, a weak, sick, and spineless child much to the dismay of Heathcliff, grows up in Wuthering Heights, a mutual liking develops between him and Cathy. Heathcliff deliberately cultivates a friendship between them with an ulterior motive.

Cathy and Linton write secret, loving letters to each other since they’re forbidden by Edgar to meet. Heathcliff encourages their infatuation as he wants them to marry so he can get his hands on Thrushcross Grange too. 

Edgar Linton’s health begin to degrade. In order to get them both married, Heathcliff kidnaps Cathy and Nelly Dean and keeps them captive until a forced wedding is performed and Cathy becomes Linton’s wife. 

Edgar dies. Cathy escapes from the captivity just in time to meet her father before he dies but is soon taken back to the Heights by Heathcliff. Edgar is buried next to Catherine. Linton dies soon after that, and Heathcliff, as he previously planned for, now owns both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Cathy reluctantly lives with Heathcliff and Hareton at Wuthering Heights. This brings the story up to the present when Lockwood has rented Thrushcross Grange.

Lockwood goes back to London but comes back to the moors some eight months later to find many changes. Heathcliff is dead. Nelly tells him that he died mourning for Catherine. He no longer felt the need to continue his revenge spree as Hareton reminded him of his own younger self and Cathy reminded him of her fierce, bold, and beautiful mother. Cathy and Hareton have struck up a friendship and have fallen in love. Lockwood does not meet anyone other than Nelly Dean on this trip, but he does see Cathy and Hareton walking out, hand in hand, with love. 

Wuthering Heights is an intensely sensitive book. An engrossing tale of revenge, deaths and malice, pride, and corruption of love.

It displays varying forms of love. Heathcliff and Catherine’s love is passionate yet agonizing for others. Although the love between them is pure in all respect and rooted deep within themselves, it is also terribly destructive. 

The love shared between Edgar and Catherine is, however, peaceful and comfortably radiant. Although not being as intense as the former one, theirs was a socially acceptable love.

The so-called love between Linton and Cathy was merely a set up by Heathcliff that had its root in pity felt by young Cathy towards Linton whereby Linton gets Cathy to love him by playing on her desires to protect him. And finally, there is this love between Hareton and Cathy. Way above any emotion the entire book has in its store. It is gentle, understanding, and soft.  

Nearly all of the action in Wuthering Heights results from one or another character's desire for revenge. The result is cycles of revenge that seem to endlessly repeat.

One of the quotes from the book reads:

 “I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

 It so perfectly illustrates the cycle that kept this book going.

 It is like a nightmare that is preventing you to get up from the slumber. Undeniably well-crafted, this book will make you feel trapped in the moors or a dark towering manor and hear people screaming or resenting one another. To sum it, Wuthering Heights is not a romantic tale of love and affection with a happily-ever-after. It is a bitter and twisted story of all the worst ways humans can corrupt emotions.

 

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The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a story that highlights love, friendship, poverty, guilt, redemption, and freedom. Set against the backdrop of Afghanistan during the years of 1960s to 2000s, the book progresses as the lives of characters are decided by the ever-changing fate of their motherland Afghanistan and its tempestuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan monarchy, the Russian invasion, refugee crisis, the rise of Taliban and the country’s mortification at their hands.

Amir, son of a wealthy and prominent businessman of Kabul is friends with Hassan, son of his father’s servant. Amir and Hassan are inseparable who spend their day with each other munching on walnuts and dried mulberries sitting atop a poplar tree, watching cinema, flying kites, playing panjpar, reading stories, etc.  Despite being fed from the same breasts, Amir and Hassan, both motherless since birth, were separated by class, tribe, and religion. Amir lives in a mansion whereas Hassan, along with his crippled father, lived in a mud hut. Going by the societal norms, Hassan is Amir’s servant. Amir is a bookish boy who loves to read and write while Hassan is an unschooled Hazara.

Another important virtue that distinguishes the two boys is the core they are made up of.  Hassan, although illiterate and poor, is forgiving, brave, pure, and innocent. His loyalty and admiration towards Amir are highlighted throughout the book. Amir, on the other hand, is sensitive and intelligent who has grown up with a sense of entitlement. And although he stores immense love for Hassan in his heart, that love is often shadowed by Amir’s desire to gain his Baba’s undivided attention and affection who is very fond of Hassan. As a result, Amir often turns hostile and mean towards Hassan.

On one jubilant day of annual kite flying tournament in Kabul, Amir wins the tournament he so very wanted to earn his father's praise. On the same day, Hassan, who is an excellent kite runner, runs to catch the last cut kite for Amir, which is a symbol of victory. However, after he finds the kite, Hassan is cornered by a few bully kids who are critical of the Hazara community who ends up beating him brutally. Amir, engulfed in cowardice fails to stand up against the bullies and save Hassan. With further series of events, Hassan and his father ends their services towards Amir’s father and leaves for some unknown place. Amir’s father is deeply saddened by their departure and Amir is haunted by his secret deeds and betrayal for life.

The tragedy of politics and war in Afghanistan enter into the picture at this time and Amir and his father flee Afghanistan to settle in Fremont, California where Amir becomes a successful writer. He finds America as a place where he could let his ‘sin’ drown to the bottom. When Amir learns that his childhood friend and a father figure, Rahim Khan is ailing back in Pakistan, he decides to visit him. However, the greater purpose was something Rahim Khan said to him at the end of the telephone call almost as an afterthought. “There is a way to be good again.”

Upon meeting Rahim Khan, unknown truths and hard disclosures unfold in front of Amir. What follows from here on is his journey towards righting the wrongs he committed years ago as a boy in Kabul, his quest for redemption.

The kite runner stores in itself countless human nature and their complications. One of them being the prominence of gray over black and white. When seen from Amir’s point of view, what one can find is that there is both evil and goodness in a person. What makes him are the choices that he makes. Guilt struck Amir, who as a boy was jealous and timid, made his final decision as a man of acceptance and utmost bravery years later.

The book throws an indistinct light on the lives of commons amid warfare as against a striking contrast to peaceful living. The story traces two timelines, one being the life of Amir as a boy in a pleasant city of Kabul and later his life as a well-established writer at the States. What connects the two timelines are the untold truths and past deeds that Amir was supposed to face eventually. As the book proceeds, it gives us a feeling of remorse, nostalgia, and longing as if we are losing a part of our own childhood.

To put it down in the simplest of words, it all happened because of Hassan’s sentiments towards Amir which he once conveyed using a beautiful set of words and years later when the same words were spoken by Amir to someone who exemplified Hassan.

The words being:

“For you, a thousand times over”.

What seems like a simple moral story at the outside is actually a deeply rooted string of emotions knitted by Hosseini as if the words on the books are the tale of his being. What the book essentially emphasizes is that there is no religion greater than love, no bond stronger than one backed by loyalty, and no sin that never finds redemption.

If you want a heart wrenching yet a beautiful tale on humanity, its cruelty, and its purity, grab this book and set out on an exhilarating journey!

 

 

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Tuesdays with Morrie

When Mitch Albom came across a recent interview of his favorite teacher of undergrad days, with whom he has not been in contact for many years, he at once decides to visit him. Tuesdays with Morrie is a chronicle by author Mitch Albom about his series of Tuesday visits to his past sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz who is dying of ALS or motor neuron disease. You will find yourself growing gradually and along with Mitch as these visits progress.

Mitch Albom records the life-changing experiences of Morrie and his takeaways from them. The entire book is a heart wrenching yet peculiarly beautiful interplay between the student-professor duo where Morrie recalls his life events, its turbulence, nitty-gritty, and how he found the elixir of life in simple things. Throughout these visits, which Morrie called “lessons”, they talked and discussed anything and everything like family, emotions, relationships, money, regret, forgiveness, and death itself. The meetings lead up to the final interaction where Morrie is staring lovingly at death like an old friend and imparting one final lesson to his student. This final encounter between the two friends and the unsaid goodbye will make the readers experience the rawest and pure emotions.

Not only does this book will leave you emotionally overwhelmed, but it also grants the self-realization regarding the very existence of self and the meaning that is shaping our lives. It grows on you intricately yet provides for the fact that life is simple. Tuesdays with Morrie is one of those books that stays with its readers for life. It is like water and oxygen essential to revive a dying plant. Morrie Schwartz was a simple man who led his life in the simplest way possible focusing on things that matter. This simple man possessed the wisdom essential to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. Throughout your read, you will feel his words and his presence as if someone is helping you unfold the solution to a complex mathematical problem.

I would highly recommend Tuesdays with Morrie not solely for the emotional ride it will take you on, but also for the aftermaths the content of this book can have on today’s individuals and the life they live.

 

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Welcome to Tale On Tales!

“I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again — if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine.” – Marilynne Robinson

 And so why is it that you feel a certain connection with the author and his words when you read words written by someone else, in a state of mind you've never been in, sitting in a country you've never been to?

I believe the answer to this is the vast universe each of us carry within us that makes us capable to experience not just one but thousands of lives at the same time!

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin in A Dance With Dragons. 

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