Synopsis: Over two centuries have passed since his death on May 4, 1799. Yet Tipu Sultan’s legacy continues to perplex India and her contemporary politics. A fascinating and enigmatic figure in India’s military past, Tipu remains a modern historian’s biggest puzzle. That’s because he simultaneously means different things to different people, depending on how one Read more…
Hello! I’m Tiyasha Chakraborty. I am a grade eleven, humanities student. Well, my passion for reading is relatively recent. I had always wondered how could a mere assemblage of off-white pages with thousands of words printed on it give pleasure to someone. What I found even more baffling was how someone could have reading as Read more…
I was neither a bibliophile nor was I into casual reading. However, as school life came to an end and the first semester of engineering beckoned, I learned that many of my classmates always had a book on them, even if most of the time it was just for show off. Also, our communication skills’ Read more…
I clearly remember I was in grade ten when I got my first novel. It was Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It probably wasn’t the best choice for a first-time reader as the book failed to interest me at first. However, the more I read, the more interesting it felt. I was now officially a reader.
I have never been a socially amiable person since my early days. When I first got admitted to school, I was the smartest kid in the class. However, I was far from being the most popular one! I barely had any friends. I still remember how the first-grader me was upset when our summer vacation Read more…
Growing up in the middle of lots of books, I was always curious about what could be so special about those big, voluminous bundles of paper. I still remember the day my father brought me Anondomela, a Bengali children’s magazine. This was my first introduction to a hitherto unknown treasure. To put things into perspective, Read more…
Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. I clearly remember the day when I first read a novel and fell in love with reading. Since then, my journey has been an ongoing one.
It was in 2013 that I first read a book for leisure than out of academic compulsions. Well, I had read a few novels previously, but it was more of a sporadic thing than something regular. Initially, I only read fiction and romantic novels. I tried my hand at non-fiction, self-help books, but I found Read more…
My mother instilled in me the habit of reading storybooks when I was about four or five years old. My first book was Little Red Riding Hood. And ever since, I have been obsessed with books simply because they opened up to me new places where I was either Snow White trying to escape my Read more…
When I slept on October 4, 2020, I could have never imagined that I would be waking up to the worst day of my life. You see, I had a chronic back issue, and the last few days had hurt as hell. Well, things were about to get much worse. As I woke up in Read more…
