Photo by Max van den Oetelaar on Unsplash SPOILER ALERT: Movie review of Sherni. Key plot points discussed. If you hate spoilers, bookmark this page and come back to it after you have watched the movie. Holy wow. What a refreshing change to all the garbage Bollywood has been churning out lately. I watched the … Continue reading Movie Review – Sherni
SPOILER ALERT: This book is not really a plot based novel, it is a collection of interviews and stories. I am placing this spoiler alert anyway because I will be discussing some aspects of the stories presented. This is a book review for Out of Line and Offline: Queer Mobilizations in '90s Eastern India by … Continue reading Queer Desi: Out of Line and Offline
Another classic, another disaster. I will include a spoiler alert because if you are like me and haven’t heard about this book other than the words – Trilby and Svengali – well you are in for a rude awakening. You may think you know the plot but trust me that is not even the half … Continue reading Sven-jolly
I know I said this blog was for book reviews but I also did say it was for practicing my writing. Besides, I am feeling compelled to write a review about this movie. Without further ado let us get into it. SPOILER ALERT: There are important plot points I have discussed down below that are … Continue reading Movie Review – Naandhi
SPOILER ALERT: Spoiler Alert in place for The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Do classics need spoiler alerts? I am a sucker for star crossed lovers and romantic era stories. I thoroughly enjoy the classics. Wuthering Heights is my all time favorite novel very closely followed by Little Women. Frankenstein was … Continue reading The OG Emo
SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for Gideon the Ninth. I absolutely love all things fantasy. I went through a Goth phase in my teenage years (the love is still there). And so it is astonishing that I have never read anything in the necromancy fiction genre. As someone who is part of the LGBTQ+ community, I am … Continue reading Necromancy Anyone?
Some days are good and some days are bad. You never know when a bad day is going turn into a horrible day, seep into the next and the next - all of a sudden you have had a bad week or a bad month. All of us experience our depression in various forms. We … Continue reading Depression
Spoiler Alert: This is a review for Roxane Gay's Hunger. There may be spoilers. A lot has been said about Roxane Gay's memoir, a lot of praise and a lot of acclaim. All of it is more than justified. I have been a huge fan of her writing since I read Bad Feminist. Hunger is … Continue reading Fat is not a bad word
My last post was a plea to J.K. Rowling to stop ruining our favorite childhood series. I talked about how she inspired me and taught me feminism; she taught me it was okay to be afraid, to stand up to my bullies and to never give up the fight against patriarchy. I have looked up … Continue reading Enough is Enough
Spoiler Alert: This post may contain spoilers for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Crimes of Grindelwald This is not a book review but more of an author review. It is also a plea to my childhood hero to stop! I am a huge Harry Potter fan. So much so that I was on … Continue reading Let it Go!
Across the Ocean 