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B=Benaras of Book “Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras"

For B, in #atozchallenge, I explore Benaras of Book “Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras". I reviewed this book in 2014 as a part of blog tour by @tbcblogtours, and it still is fresh in my mind.

“B” was one of the difficult choices in this list. I am living in Mumbai, and I wanted to cover Bombay. But more I thought, more I realized that the most of the Bombay that I read in the novels either was set in Bandra or in slums of Dharavi—none of the places I associate myself with.

But then, I realized I don’t want to write about Bombay. “B” reminds me of something else, someplace else—a…

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Tikuli's Collection of Chaos-- A Book Club Poetry Review

    Blurb:

(From the foreword by Kris Saknussemm) As with all the poets I most admire, words are living things for Tikuli. But as you will come to discover, they are never deployed for their own sake. She uses them to tell stories. The images, scenes, characters and fragments of visionary empathy that you will find in this book are all rooted in her native India-and yet they reach out far…

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Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras (A Book Club Review)

Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras (A Book Club Review)

Summary

Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benarasis a book that seeks to tell the little stories that make us who we are. The author believes that Benaras resides in all of us Indians, in some beautiful often-unknown way. The author is the Sutradhar, in that she attempts to connect an India that many do not realize exists, in that it is everybody’s story. Radha, Krishna, Ganga, Benaras…

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Turquoise Silence- A Book Club Review

Turquoise Silence- A Book Club Review

Turquoise Silence by Sanober Khan

A disclaimer: This book is a part of a blog tour conducted by The Book Club and all the reviews are done in exchange of a copy of the book from the publisher or author. No monetary trasaction takes place.

    The Blurb The book is a collection of free verse poems that encapsulate the poet’s most heartfelt emotions about life. They speak of moments that…