I have always enjoyed a good story and thanked my lucky stars I was born in a family of avid readers and wonderful storytellers. In fact, even before I had learned to read on my own, my mum would read me captivating fairy tales and Assamese folklore every afternoon. My dad would take over in Read more…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final book in this modern witchcraft series. It relates the story of Harry Potter’s final duel against the evil Lord Voldemort. However, this confrontation actually takes place toward the end of the story. A lot of things happen before Harry and his friends are ready Read more…

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is an angry book, a lamentation and a thanatopsis. It contains the usual chorus of Doxies, Puffskeins, Bowtruckles, Spattergroit and Thestrals, not to mention a Crumple-Horned Snorkack. The first few pages include Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.K. Rowling needs no introduction. She is, of course, the author of the famous Harry Potter series. She was born on July 31, 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter in Read more…