Readers Realm

Betrayal is a normative reaction to what?
(Today with the advancement of technology an action which was considered an egregious vice has been conditioned to subjectivity.)
Do I know myself? If I had to travel to the hinterland of my desire would I compromise on my core principles? Is it even a Core principle if it is eclipsed by my desires, or is it just a peripheral one?
These are a few of the many consequential lines of thinking provoked in me after reading Ana Magdalena's decisions.

Reading "Until August" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was like watching the scene from The Black Swan where Nina loses innocence and can't physically dance the part of White Swan anymore. After marking their ineradicable elegance in their past performances both Gabriel and Nina in this book and that particular scene respectively could neither develop nor sustain their art. The whole visual idea gave me anxiety throughout, and I think you will be able to relate once you read the book.

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Did you know there were Chinese immigrants in Assam as well? I personally thought they were limited to Kolkata. But Rita Chowdhury's 'Chinatown Days', which has as much fiction as historical facts, told me otherwise.

In one of the previous posts, we talked about how some of my favorite books are random books that I picked up from a bookstore. Chinatown Days was one such book that caught my eye when I was booksurfing at a bookstore in guwahati. It is about a second-generation Chinese girl married to an Assamese boy and their lives before and after the 1962 Indo-China war. At the heart of it is the story of how the Indian state betrayed a minority of its people, the Chinese Indians, who eventually had to fend for their own in a land that despite being theirs, had suddenly become foreign.

Which brings me to her latest novel, The Divine Sword. It has been on my TBR list since its release, and now that it has finally arrived in Readers Realm, I can't wait to start reading it.

Fun fact: Rita Chowdhury was born at Tirap in Arunachal Pradesh 😀

Happy Women's Day! ❤️

Friends from afar learning all about our beautiful state through...you guessed it right..books😃

Termed by many as their book of the 2023, The Book of Everlasting things by Aanchal Malhotra is both intimate and sweeping.
A story spanning continents & generations, braiding the threads of the past to the future, this is a rewarding read that will linger in your mind like the notes of an unforgettable perfume.