Tag Archives: Love

Book Review – Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Posted on August 10, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

A great story of an elusive love and heartbreak against a political backdrop in modern day Turkey by the great story teller. An exiled poet Ka returns back to his hometown of Kars to investigate the suicide by young girls … Continue reading →

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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one … Continue reading →

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A Christmas Poem

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Tarun Rattan

I have a list of folks I know,all written in a book And every year when Christmas comes,I go and take a look, And that is when I realize that these names are a part Not of the book they … Continue reading →

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She made me More…

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Tarun Rattan

 

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Book Review – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez My rating: 5 of 5 stars This masterpiece from Gabriel García Márquez depicts in a most sensual way, how love transcends all boundaries of worldly existence. The book explores both the … Continue reading →

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O Woman!

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

“O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There’s in you all that we believe of heaven,— Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, … Continue reading →

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Sense of Meaning…

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

 

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I Confess

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Tarun Rattan

 

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Book Review – A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Tarun Rattan

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 4 of 5 stars Khaled Hosseini has certainly made Afghanistan proud by capturing the contemporary life in his beautifully crafted second novel. I’d read Kite Runner when it came out and was spellbound … Continue reading →

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Relationship

Posted on May 3, 2002 by Tarun Rattan

  My Love, Relationship evolves akin to a tree in full bloom… it sprouts from the petite seed of fondness and penchant… and planted on the ripe ground, that tiny seedling germinates into a sapling of acquaintance. Then on the … Continue reading →

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