Art
Posts from the art category.
Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of When A Butterfly Loves the Rain by Shriya Karthik
Imagine this: the sound of rain tapping against your window late at night, that soft rhythm that makes the world slow down. You’re curled up with a cup of tea, and suddenly you stumble upon a book that doesn’t just echo the rain outside, but somehow breathes with it. That’s what happened when I picked up When A Butterfly Loves the Rain by Shriya Karthik. I didn’t just read this anthology of poems ...
Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of Parallel Whispers: Arya’s Journey by Priyanka Sharma
They say books can transport you, but Parallel Whispers: Arya’s Journey by Priyanka Sharma didn’t just take me somewhere — it unsettled the ground beneath me. From the very first chapter, I felt like I was slipping into a dream that wasn’t mine, where every clue pulled me deeper and every silence felt alive. It’s rare to find a story that makes you question not just the character’s reality, but yo...
Subversion
Art dies in stasis. It's movement is oxygen. Like a molecule of oxygen, someone exhales it and someone, something else inhales it. What that molecule enables is unpredictable. The end result of a multitude of uncontrollable vectors working on a closed system. Potentially a new creature breathes alive. Something unknown lurks. Subversion is art. Morphing is survival. I present my examples and rest ...
The Space Between Shades
Oh Black, she needs your strength, depth, and eleganceTo see beyond the surface, and to walk with quiet dignity.Dear White, she needs your clarity and opennessTo clear the fog of doubt, to see truth without shadows.Yellow, she is missing your cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and positivityTo carry on through grey mornings, to spark laughter in weary hours.Green, with your nature and harmony,she needs you...
Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of The Witch, The Princess and The Tower of Doom by Rajesh Talwar
We’ve all heard the story of Rapunzel — a princess in a tower, a witch who locks her away, and a prince who saves the day. But what if I told you there’s a version of this story that doesn’t follow that script at all? Rajesh Talwar’s The Witch, The Princess and The Tower of Doom takes this familiar framework and turns it into something far richer, more magical, and surprisingly thought-provoking.H...
Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of Madness of Waiting by Muhammad Hadi Ruswa, Krupa Shandilya and Taimoor Shahid
There are books that whisper to your soul, and then there are those that leave behind echoes — lingering, lyrical, impossible to shake off. Madness of Waiting is one such echo. Have you ever felt the urge to learn a new language simply because a translation — no matter how brilliant — doesn’t feel enough? That’s exactly what this book did to me. It made me yearn to understand Urdu in its pure, und...
Sameer Gudhate presents the Book Review of Escape from Media by Brandy Stoker
Ever picked up a book and, within a few pages, realized you were holding something that felt hauntingly familiar… yet thrillingly new? That was my experience with Escape from Media. As someone who grew up on the grit of The Hunger Games and the fire of Shatter Me, I felt instantly pulled into Brandy Stoker’s world — a place where magic can kill you, but love might just save you.Stoker, in her debu...
