Books I’ve read and stories/poems I’ve written.
Cross-posted from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3510632331 I was excited about this book for a very long time. 10 years to be precise. I bought it pretty much the day it won the Booker Prize. But for one reason or another, I couldn’t start it all these years. Until 20 days ago. Did it turn out worth the […]
Cross-posted from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3196927726 This one is bold! May not be for the faint of heart. 4WW is a book about the realization that living your dreams is as important as doing your 9-5 job. Ferriss’ casual style of writing is motivating and quirky. I personally found his thought process and “lifestyle design” tips to […]
Cross-posted from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3081641646 Scion of Ikshvaku was my first Amish book. Amish has been called India’s literary rockstar, and has been compared with Dan Brown. So, naturally, I was much excited about reading him. Although I liked the storytelling, I was put off a bit by his writing style. Being born and bred in […]
A list of books I am reading and ones I finished recently, fetched from my Goodreads profile.
Just a small random poem I scribbled during my last journey to home. Out I went under the starry sky, unaware of the full moon shining bright. So beautiful as was the view; so much to see, so much to love. I had only drunk half a glass of its glory when my eyes turned […]
I wrote this micro-story as my second entry for a short story writing contest at Accenture. My first story was Mihir Learns to Golf. In this second story, I made use of all the six pictures in the collage (above). And yes, this one has a moral as well — team spirit. Once upon a […]
This micro-story was my first entry for a recent story writing contest at Accenture (results have yet to be declared). The contest was about writing a moral-supported tiny story based on a set of given pictures. I wrote mine around picture above, one of the six provided. It’s a cheesy kids’ story with a happy […]
These days I’m obsessed with Sherlock Holmes. He’s a genius, a detective, a scientist, a consultant, a violinist, a boxer, and yet he doesn’t know (or doesn’t care to know) that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Why? Because “that’s too useless an information to store in the limited-capacity brain.” But wait! He’s a drug […]
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Wrote this one last Sunday. A short story depicted as a poem. Having finished all work, I’m bored to the core. There’s no movie on TV, and no friends galore. A novel should I read, or a story should I write? Time’s in plenty, so I should write, but really, what to write tonight? Several […]