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Across her novels, political essays, and now her memoir, Arundhati Roy has never stopped challenging the status quo and dreaming of a more humane world. 🦩 Read more at currentaffairs.org 🎨 Illustration by @sarahanna.singh
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Human life comes with prudence, or at least the search for it. With faith, perseverance and manifestation, we move forward. Without, we move backwards. Vivekananda calls it the means to our one end, one aim — success. Tolstoy calls it the 'good way of life' — searching for the meaning of life, with virtue and in company of others' wisdom; in search of our own. It is one thing to not know better and another to know and not act on it. In fact, most of us struggle with the latter: swinging back and forth between intellectual insight and emotional insight; between our shortcomings and strengths; between knowing and acting. Giving in and sparing ourselves the hassle instead of putting up a fight with our own self. In between this hum and haw, every day becomes a choice and often, we recognise the better one only towards the end of the day; forgeting that wisdom does not always have to be earned. It can be learnt and inspired. Which is why our elders tell us to read better — another one of the things we learn too late. With that spirit, I had begun my year with small goals; a quiet war with the little things that make or break us. More than half of the year has gone by and I am still forging an illusion of a change. The intent exists; the action, though, is still missing. I have gathered advice — a mix of philosophical, spiritual, practical — and yet, I struggle with applying it. But isn't that the beauty of a calendar year? It repeats itself so you shall do differently. Make a mistake once and do it better the next time. If not the next, then the third. I say some day, as long as you try every day. Also in that spirit (and inspired by @writerly_life 's order of maintaining his books by laminating them), I too have starting laminating one book every day. It's only been a week, but it feels satisfying. Here's to small changes and doing better. "धीरे धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय" . In frame: a stack of my current reads and a wonderful cup of chai for a wonderful weather. Enjoying them all, albiet slowly. . Tagging a few friends to share their journeys #onestepatatime Please share yours too. #readdreamrepeat #writing #participate #qotd #selflove #selfhelp
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#54321challenge It's my bro (Uday Shetty to my Majnu bhai) @isleofbliss who tagged me so i have to do this challenge (also i posted a meme from from her favourite movie 😂😂) (I'm going to stick with Fiction only so that everyone can resonate) 5 books I love: Kim Ji-young born 1982 The Sense of an Ending Red Sorghum Crime and Punishment Last Train to Istanbul 4 auto buy authors: Anton Chekhov Saddat Hassan Manto Fyodor Dostoevsky Albert Camus 3 favourite genres: Philosophical fiction Historical fiction Political fiction 2 places I love to read: My terrace Train/bus 1 book I promise to read soon: The Count of Monte Cristo Ayo this was a fun ride. Also i just noticed while scrolling down my profile that I used to take awesome pics back in the day and used to put a lot of effort. Now I'm doing shit. Sed lyf. Tagging few loved ones here. Again thank you @isleofbliss . This was fun. Also that bookshelf belongs to Pt. Nehru 😅🥲.
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." - William Shakespeare from #romeojuliet Thank you @_._man.isha_._ for the flowers 🥺❤️ . . . . #swarnalisthoughts #bookstagram #book #bookshelf #bookphotography #bookblogger #bookish #booklover #bookworm #bookaesthetic #flowers #flower #flowerstagram #shakespeare #shakespearequotes #bookporn #words #reader #reading #readingtime #readmorebooks #bookislove #bookquotes #love #loveislove #quote #quotewriter #writer #writing
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Super Excited to open the New Books 📚📚... . . #readingtime #newbooks #superexcited . . #socialspoon #socialmediamarketing
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'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath's Prologue, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road. Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year as Borough of Culture 2020, The Wife of Willesden will premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London in September 2020. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. . . 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 : @penguinindia #readandrise #midlandbooks #readandrisewithmidland #zadiesmith #zadiesmithquotes #zadiesmithswingtime #playwriting #lightreading #humourbook #2022 #bookstoreadin2022 #booksthatmatter #keepreading #readersofinstagram #bookrecommendations #favouritebook #bookstoreindia #bookstorewalapyar #bookstoresofinstagram #stayhomestaysafe #indiafightsomicron #indiafightscorona🇮🇳 #doorstepdeliveryavailable #worldwideshipping📦✈️ #gurgaonbookstore #gurgaonbookstagram #delhibookstafam #delhibookstagrammer #ordernow #betterthanamazon
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Diwali Gift Hampers 💫🍪 Order Diwali Gift Boxes packed with an assortment of chocolate cookies, decadent brownies, and delectable tea cakes 🍫⭐⭐ . . Delivering in Delhi NCR 🌻 Make this Diwali the festival of sweets 🍪💫 DM to order. 🌻. . . . #diwaligifting #diwali2021 #diwalihampers #delhibaker
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Little Glimpses of our days at The Cinnamon Kitchen 🧁Creating something that brings joy to people 🌻 . . DM for orders 🍩 . . . #delhibaker #diwaligifting #homebaker #dessertsofinstagram
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I do not remember the last time I opened a book and fell into it like I fell into the comfort of Lahiri's words. It is the same comfort that comes with sitting silently in  a loved one's company or reading a gifted book and eating cake that was baked with love. And perhaps with the braveness she has shown, writing fluently in a language her parents struggled to master; I too have braved to see a subtle reflection of myself in her words. Reading her feels like one has aged and is ready to open an old diary and revisit the choices and the regrets. She is almost always suspended in an air of familiarity; her words, always homely tasting. I smile at how simple the purpose of this book was. To see and be seen. Nothing about revolutionary insights. Nothing about plots and twists. Only a familiarity that reminds you of settling deeper into a couch and giving in to slumber. Tell me this. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if someone was to observe your life as you walk through it alone? To have someone accross a mirror understand what you see and feel? I would be lying if I say I haven't thought about it more than once. Whereabouts is exactly that. Imagine a woman walking through the city, walking through her life. Middle aged. Alone but mostly not lonely. Trying to perfect the 'condition of solitude'. Her side profile the only face visible to us. Her hair, flipping in the air, catching up with the wind, surrendering to it. Her eyes, lost in a distant thought. Her gaze, accepting. Her face, calm. She knows how we think we give meaning to a place but how, more often than not, it is the ordinary places we visit that define us. Supermarkets, bridges, museums, bookstores, rainy days, old lovers. We belong to them as much as they belong to us. It could be Lahiri. It could me. It could be you. Which is what makes it sublime. Making it deeply personal without giving many details. It's a story that belongs to many. A story that one must tell. Just like she says: "I am amazed at our impulse to express ourselves, explain ourselves, tell stories to one another" And Lahiri does all of them well. Express, explain, and tell stories.
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Bharat ki Beti !! For all my strong, hardworking, beautiful, imaginative reader(Indian) girls ❤ Cover picture courtesy: Google #aleafunturned #bookstagram #bookreader #bookishreel #reels #hindisongs #bharatkibeti #readers
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Grateful to all the publishers, writers, friends, family who have sent me their love in a packet the last three months. Thank you to each and every one of you for making my birthday special despite me not wanting to celebrate it. Your roses and cards are pressed tightly between the pages of these books, future reminders of your tenderness. I will get back to posting regularly now, I hope life is kind to all of us this time. And I hope routine will save me. See you soon. Love, Nandini. Q: How have you been? . #indianblogger #igreads #bookishfeatures #readdreamrepeat #booksofInstagram #bookphotography #readersofinstagram #booksonbooksonbooks #photooftheday #instagood #instagoods #instaphoto #instaphotography #reading #bibliophile #booksbooksbooks #reader #booklover #books #photography #booksbooksbooks #bookstack #gift #gifts #birthday #birthdaygift #birthdaygifts #love #gratitude #grateful
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When does it stop making sense ? The moment you realise the truth or the times when you are happily living in a lie ? Are the bitter truths better or the lies are too comforting ? Does knowing the truth make you restless or living between the lies makes you at ease ? Does the truth shreds your heart or the lie strengthens your soul ? The sooner you’ll find the answers, the far sighted lies would lie, keeping you sane in the truth. . . #spillinginks🍁 ---------------------------------------------------------- #spillinginks #abstracttlife #wordporn #wordgram #wordgasm #words #igers #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writing #writersofindia #writersofdelhi #writerscommunity #wordsofwisdom #instapoetry #instapoet #wordstoliveby #writersofdelhi #delhiwriter #delhipoets #wordsmotivation #quoteaway #bookstacommunity #bookstagram #delhibookstafam #illustrator #bibliophile #bookstagram #booktag #booktagramer
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