Category Archives: Literature

Book Review – Notes to Self by Emilie Pine

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

Notes to Self by Emilie Pine My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of the best confessions that I’ve read, it needs real courage to expose yourself so honestly to the world. The writing is lucid and readers just flow in … Continue reading →

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Time to be Slow

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

 

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Book Review – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a masterful account of Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power. Hilary Mantel has captured the essence of the time and has presented the readers a truthful journal of Tudar period. … Continue reading →

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Everything Is Going To Be All Right

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

How should I not be glad to contemplatethe clouds clearing beyond the dormer windowand a high tide reflected on the ceiling?There will be dying, there will be dying,but there is no need to go into that.The poems flow from the … Continue reading →

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Love After Love

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

The time will come when, with elation,you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again the stranger who was your self.Give wine. … Continue reading →

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White Towels

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

I have been studying the differencebetween solitude and loneliness,telling the story of my lifeto the clean white towels taken warm from the dryer.I carry them through the houseas though they were my childrenasleep in my arms. – Richard Jones

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Book Review – Zero Road by Nasira Sharma

Posted on June 25, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

  Zero Road by Nasira Sharma My rating: 4 of 5 stars Zero road is the latest novel from the popular Hindi novelist Nasira Sharma. Its story starts from a backward and static mohalla Chak in Allahabad (now PrayagRaj) and … Continue reading →

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‘To Do List’ by John O’Leary

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

To Do List: 1. find dragon and slay2. exorcise cat3. prove conclusively the identity of Beauty and Truth. 4. watch, fast, pray5. sail Atlantic single-handed6. write name in water 7. return Teach Yourself Waltzing Tape8. weep for Adonais and feel … Continue reading →

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Book Review – The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie My rating: 3 of 5 stars It is not the best of Salman Rushdie, is all I can say. This retelling of India’s D-Company story is not the best topic on which someone like … Continue reading →

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Hymn To Time

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Tarun Rattan

Time says “Let there be”every moment and instantlythere is space and the radianceof each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance.And the gnats’ flickering dance.And the seas’ expanse.And death, and chance. Time makes roomfor going and coming homeand in time’s wombbegins … Continue reading →

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