Drama Lama

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My response to the Carrot Ranch 99 Word Flash Fiction Challenge this week. We had to write about exhaustion!

Legs with the strength of over cooked spaghetti, kept her from being able to stand at the kitchen sink. If she could raise her arms from the dead, she’d move the shock of hair that had fallen, blocking her view. Instead, she made a feeble attempt to blow it out of the way.

Motheeeeerrrrrr.

“Puhleeeeezzeeeee.”

 “I am sooo tired!”

Mother had heard it all before. Of course, her daughter didn’t have the energy to get the dishes washed. If she expended all that effort doing chores, then she’d have no energy left to spend the evening with her friends.

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Book Review: A Quest for Spring

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Title: A Quest for Spring
Author: Monica Majumdar Dixit
Publisher: Notion Press
Pages: 386
ISBN: 978-1947752672
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Book Review aqfsA Quest for Spring traces the journey of Amolika and Raehan from being friends to soulmates. Raehan and Amolika both come from very different backgrounds. While Amolika hails from a family of Army officers, Raehan belongs to the beautiful but dangerous valley of Kashmir.

Amolika is raised by her uncle after her parents’ death and Raehan is raised by his grandfather after his parents’ separation. The two meet for the first time in their college where they are both pursuing the same course. Amolika is sent to this college by her uncle to spy on Raehan, who comes from a political family. While Amolika gets close to Raehan to get information from him, unbeknownst to herself she falls in love with him. And Raehan loves Amolika too.

But the course of their…

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Book Review: Messed Up! But All for Love

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Title: Messed Up! But All for Love
Author: Arvind Parashar
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Pages: 156
ISBN: 978-9382665946
Source: Writersmelon

‘Messed Up! But All for Love’ is the first book in the ‘Messed Up!’ trilogy. This book delves into how sometimes our love for each other can create a mess between us and how misunderstandings & miscommunication can lead two lovers to the threshold of separation.

Let us jump into the Mess…

Gauri & Neil are a happily married couple. The two are ready to go to any limits for the sake of their love. Neil has his bunch of friends- Tom, Jerry & James, while Gauri shares all her sorrows with her friend, Mehr. They often spend time together, go to vacations & make fun.

Problems start arising when Neil decides to lose some weight to surprise Gauri & starts meeting Srinya for the same purpose. Gauri dislikes…

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Book Review: The Arrangements of Love

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Title: The Arrangements of Love
Author: Timeri N. Murari
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780143031499
Source: Personal Copy

‘The Arrangements of Love’ is a quest for old & forgotten relationships. Packed with bits of Family Saga, Detective work & the American Dream of Indians, The Arrangements of Love is a riveting book.

About the Author

Timeri N. Murari is an Indian novelist, journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of fourteen published novels, including best-sellers The Taliban Cricket Club and Taj , and has written extensively for Indian and international newspapers including ‘The Guardian’.

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From America… To India

The Arrangements of Love tells the story of a boy named Nikhil, living in America with his mother & step dad. His mother, Sushma aka Susie (in America) has a past buried in India. The novel starts with Nikhil’s decision to go to India, to find…

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Book Review: Under the Udala Trees

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Title: Under the Udala Trees
Author: Chinelo Okparanta
Publisher: Granta
Pages:328
ISBN: 9781847088383
Source: Publisher

‘Under the Udala Trees’ is the story of Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl, who discovers love in a girl of some other community, Amina. The novel takes us on a journey wherein Ijeoma tries to reconcile with her life, after her relationship with Amina is exposed to her mother.

About the Author

A Nigerian by birth, Chinelo Okrapanta iscurrentlyAssistant Professor of English & Creative Writing (Fiction) at Bucknell University. Her stories have been featured in New Yorker & Granta. Sheis a recipient of a number of literary awards & has also been a finalist for several others. Under the Udala Trees is her debut novel.

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A Love Story under Veil

The novel begins with the Nigerian Civil War going on. Ijeoma’s father gets killed during a bombardment. Ijeoma & her…

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Book Review: Iban Woman

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Title: Iban Woman
Author: Golda Mowe
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Pages: 260
ISBN: 978-1912049363
Source: Publisher

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Iban Woman is the third standalone novel in the Iban series. This book presents the story of Ratai, a young Iban woman who is not so much a woman as regards the social meaning of the word. She is more skilled at hunting than at weaving skirts. War expeditions interest her more than sowing the paddy with other woman of her longhouse.

This book is at once a journey through the very intriguing Iban culture, and Ratai’s quest to find a balance between her desire to be the perfect Iban woman and her lust for adventure. But can she be an adventurer as well as the perfect Iban woman at the same time? Is it possible for a girl like Ratai, belonging to a culture wherein customs are followed so ardently, to fulfill her…

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Book Review: Indian Cultures as Heritage

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Title: Indian Cultures as Heritage- Contemporary Pasts
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-9384067359
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In her book Indian Cultures as Heritage, Romila Thapar talks about the phenomena called culture and what constitutes the Indian culture. Her focus is on those things that are generally not considered when talking about Culture & Heritage. As such, her take on Culture & Heritage, in this book, is an unusual one.

She starts with a rather extensive introduction to the subject. And then she begins analysing certain aspects of Indian culture in each of the chapters. She goes back into the past, as back as she can and then she moves across the horizon, as far as she can. Her approach is such that hardly anything can escape the field of her vision.

She conjures up a new image of Cultures & Heritage in front of us- an…

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Book Review: Which of us are Aryans?

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Title: Which of us are Aryans?
Author: Various
Publisher: Aleph Book Compnay
Pages: 224
ISBN: 978-9388292382
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wouaaWhich of us are Aryans? deals with the much debated question of our origins. This book offers several insights on the Aryan issue and examines the different theories that have been propounded. From the Vedic times to the very recent findings coming from the field of genetics, the book views the issue from several perspectives and thereby seeks to clear the mist surrounding the issue.

There are 5 chapters each dealing with the issue from a different aspect. Edited by Romila Thapar, the book opens with a foreword and ends with an afterword by her. The purpose of this book, as Romila Thapar writes in the foreword, is not to provide any “one-bite answer … but rather to lay out the field as it were, explain where we are at and indicate…

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