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Tag: Books

  • Why I write what I do – Guest Post by Kiran Manral

    It gives me great pleasure to host Kiran Manral on my blog today. Kiran and I are ‘powder-puff girls’ as I like to call us. The first time I met her, I was bowled over by her soft voice and her easy-going nature. Instantaneously, I knew she was a woman I’d like to call a…

  • Today is #BookshopDay

    Well, every day could be #BookshopDay in my case! And if I say I love reading after that euphoric statement, it would be underplaying it, no? So, I will start from the very beginning. As a child, books intrigued me. I don’t know about you, but every time I read a storybook, I’d have a…

  • It’s the Blog Birthday Month!

    Yes, it is the Blog Birthday as BlogwatiG is turning FOUR this February. Though it only seems like yesterday that I ventured into the blogosphere with no particular goal in mind. I still feel that way, a newbie of sorts and yet, seasoned at the same time, too. Perhaps. This digital platform has given me…

  • Have you taken the #BrunchBookChallenge yet?

    If you are a book lover, you must have heard of the #BrunchBookChallenge by Hindustan Times. It is like the awesomest thing ever! So the deal is you have to read 30 books by the end of 2015. And how will HT keep a tab of your score? Simple. You tweet/instagram to @HTBrunch with the #BrunchBookChallenge…

  • Mrs Funny Bones – Not Just a Pretty Face

    October 1995 Whoever names their daughter Twinkle, thought I. Then again, her aunt was Simple, and her mother was Dimple, so there you go. The girl was pretty, no doubt about it. A petite, porcelain face framed by a gorgeous mane, and that unmistakable cleft in the chin; she was her mother’s daughter, alright. Ah, well,…

  • Going Bankerupt

    Persistence pays, especially in the present times of social media. Everything and everybody, pretty much accessible. And so it was when an unsuspecting author randomly tweeted that he would like to have a blogger meet, someday. A follower, who was also a blogger, immediately gave a high five to the idea and said she looked…

  • Walk the Talk

    A Chinese proverb goes like this, Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand 1984 Somewhere, in a school in Bombay, a little girl held her father’s hand as she proudly walked to collect her report card. She had secured the prized first rank. As she clung onto her A grades,…

  • Surfing the Virtual Waves

    Love Virtually was a random book that I picked. Actually, there was that bookstore offer where I could get 3 books for the price of 2. This was the 3rd equally priced book that made it to the cash counter. I came home and picked it to read as it seemed less daunting than the…