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Pagli By Shivrani Devi | Nayee Kitaab Prakashan
सही कहते हैं लोग, एक बार हिंदी की कोई किताब हाथ में ले लो, फिर उसका जादू ही अलग होता है। एक पढ़ो, फिर तो सिलसिला चल पड़ता है! ~~ मेरा...

Monika Satote
Jun 142 min read


How to Be you by Ruskin Bond - A little book of reminders that we all should read
How to Be You by Ruskin Bond seems like a book for kids, but it feels more like a collection of gentle reminders for adults. Most of the...

Monika Satote
Jun 111 min read


My Mother's Delightful Deaths by Carla Haslbauer
Carla Haslbauer’s hilarious debut picture book is about a mother who’s an opera singer. So here, her daughter sees her changing roles,...

Monika Satote
Dec 25, 20211 min read


The Panda, The Cat and The Dreadful Teddy
The Internet is full of toxic positivity, and so is the real life, and that annoys me. Spreading 'good vibes' and ‘positivity' is a...

Monika Satote
Dec 20, 20212 min read


Taxi Wallah and Other Stories by Numair Atif Choudhury
If I ever write a book, I would love my book to be like “Taxi Wallah and Other Stories” by Numair Atif Choudhury: A short and crisp one...

Monika Satote
Dec 19, 20212 min read


Undertow by Jahnavi Barua : Book Review
Sometimes I feel, we are all stuck. Everything seems stagnant. But we stay. We stay in relationships, at some places, attached to a few...

Monika Satote
Dec 16, 20212 min read


While the birds still sing by Ruskin Bond | Natraj Books
I love it when the books we need in our lives find the way to us at the right time. Ruskin Bond’s “While the birds still sing” is such a...

Monika Satote
Dec 15, 20212 min read


Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the COVID'19 pandemic, Adichie lost her father, which pushed her into despair that she had never encountered before. Her father was in...

Monika Satote
Nov 2, 20212 min read


Tales from my heart by Ruskin Bond
If you are looking for a light and breezy book, this is it.

Monika Satote
Oct 25, 20211 min read


The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk is a book that you need in your life
‘’If someone could look down on us from above, they’d see that the world is full of people running about in a hurry, sweating and very...

Monika Satote
Sep 23, 20211 min read


JCB Longlisted "What We Know About Her" by Krupa Ge failed to impress in many ways : Spoilers Alert
What we know about her by Krupa Ge is a longlisted title for JCB Prize 2021. That is when I heard about it first. The cover, the blurb...

Monika Satote
Sep 20, 20213 min read


Book Review: Genki Kawamura's "If Cats disappeared from the world"
People are fickle that way. Something they once valued becomes meaningless to them almost overnight. Even the most treasured presents,...

Monika Satote
Sep 15, 20212 min read


Shantanu Naidu's Candid Memoir With Mr Ratan Tata : I Came Upon a Lighthouse
In his memoir " I came upon a lighthouse", Shantanu talks about his time with Mr. Tata as an employee, as a friend and as a colleague....

Monika Satote
Sep 14, 20212 min read


Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto : On Grief, love and loss
TW: Death of loved ones, loss, grief Grief is a strange thing. It affects you. It consumes you. It destroys you. At the same time, it...

Monika Satote
Sep 13, 20212 min read


Book Review: Birthday Girls by Haruki Murakami is "Not-so-Murakami" Book!
The choices we make shape our lives, in many ways. The things we wished for, give us hope and courage to achieve those. I think the risks...

Monika Satote
Aug 28, 20211 min read


Legal Fiction by Chandan Pandey ( Vaidhanik Galp)
Legal Fiction by Chandan Pandey Originally written in Hindi as "Vaidhanik Galp", translated by Bharatbhooshan Tiwari If civilization had...

Monika Satote
Aug 26, 20211 min read


A Different Pond represents Vietnamese Refugees & Immigrants
Written by Bao Phi and illustrated by Thi Bui A different pond is a story of a Vietnamese family living in America. It is about Bao and...

Monika Satote
Aug 25, 20211 min read


When Sci-Fi Meets Literary Fiction : Three Types Of Solitude
3 stories that talk about solitude in a weird, quirky & unique way. That's what happens when a SciFi author writes about solitude? Three...

Monika Satote
Aug 25, 20212 min read


Translated Chinese Poetry That I did not like
Just for the record, I didn't like this book. It's a collection of poems from three Chinese authors: Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, all...

Monika Satote
Aug 24, 20211 min read


84, Charing cross road
"If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much." ~Helene Hanff 84, Charing Cross Road is a charming,...

Monika Satote
Aug 24, 20212 min read
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