Thursday, May 28, 2020

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...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020

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...
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Sunday, May 24, 2020

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...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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)...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

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...
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

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...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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,...
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Friday, May 1, 2020

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...