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Book Review: Lightning in a Shot Glass
Lightning in a Shot Glass is a breezy, cinematic-feeling romantic comedy following two women, Meera and Aalo, through their personal and professional lives, where light-hearted prose masks deeper commentary on social issues making the novel entertaining yet insightful.
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Writing in the Time of AI
A meditation on why AI may perfect the mechanics of writing, but can never replace the human voice, style, and more importantly, our inner need to express ourselves.
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On Therapeutic Reading
Here are a few principles that would help you turn ordinary reading into a healing practice.
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A Confession: Leo Tolstoy’s Quest for Meaning of Life
This essay explores Tolstoy’s A Confession as a journey from intellectual despair to spiritual clarity, revealing how the search for meaning ultimately leads beyond reason into the grounding simplicity of faith and lived experience.
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How to Read Dostoevsky: Start with Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground is the most accessible doorway into Dostoevsky because it condenses all his major themes—freedom, self-destruction, consciousness, and the longing for dignity—into one short, psychologically intense narrative. Let’s enter this world.
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What is Bibliotherapy?
What is bibliotherapy? It’s a question many of you have been asking me, of late. Let me explain.
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Among the Cities: Jan Morris’s Travels in Darjeeling
This essay explores how Jan Morris’s portrayal of Darjeeling in Hill Station: Darjeeling, 1970 earns the small Himalayan town a place within Among the Cities, revealing how its intimacy, diversity, and atmosphere quietly rival the grandeur of the world’s great capitals.
