Ever wonder what the result would be if the humble cucumber had a crush on the snobbish grape? 

Book title – The secret of the Palamu Fort Publisher – Story Mirror Author – Razi Price – ₹ 299/-                          Pages – 264                     Language – English Available on – Amazon The title itself – ‘The Secret of the Palamu Fort’ is enough to intrigue a reader and I must say …

HARE MANBHARE  (Sprouted green gram cutlets) This recipe makes for a super healthful option as it uses minimal oil. INGREDIENTS 2 cups green gram sprouts (boiled and mashed) 1 cup bread crumbs (just enough to enable you to make firm cutlets) 1 medium sized onion, finely chopped ½ tsp chopped …

#BOOKREVIEW #LONGPOSTALERT #DRIFTWOOD Book title – Driftwood, stories washed ashore (genre – fiction) Publisher – Readomania Author – Beetashok Chatterjee Price – ₹ 295/- Pages – 191 Purchase link on amazon – https://www.amazon.in/Driftwood-Beetashok-Chatterjee/dp/9385854771 When impeccable language meets real-life experience, the resultant prose is likely to be anything but not gripping. …

#BOOKREVIEW #LONGPOSTALERT #THEDEADLYDOZEN Book title – The Deadly Dozen, India’s most notorious serial killers Publisher – Penguin Author – Anirban Bhattacharyya Price – ₹ 299/-                          Pages – 281                     Language – English Available on – Amazon What makes a killer? What makes him commit serial crimes without ever blinking an eyelid? …

  This article was first published on #Womensweb and won me the Orange Flower award for 2020 for parent blogging Essential Life Skills for your kids  When my kids turned 10, my husband and I decided to start giving them monthly pocket money. Oh, it was a paltry sum of …

“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone who has been bitten by the wanderlust bug would know for sure that the joy of travel does not commence once you reach the destination. …

  In the spaces between hope and yearning Somewhere far and beyond the scope of reality Is born the first tenuous sapling of fortitude. A dainty thing, tiny and delicate as a bud, It unfurls and invades the vacant realm Of dreams.   There it waits in patient somnolence, Gaining …

They say I can’t reach out anymore, that my brother is now a foreigner. They say I can’t call his land my own, for mine is this side of the border. This chain-link fence that separates us now, divides more than the land. It is a barrier cleaving a wedge …

I kid you not, humans are dim-witted. Mine is particularly so. I swear, I do everything here.