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There is a writer in every reader, and every writer is a reader. After all, it’s all about expressing yourself. […]
There is a writer in every reader, and every writer is a reader. After all, it’s all about expressing yourself. Expressing your happiness, your views, your sorrow or your bad jokes but it’s all about Expressions or how I like to call it Abhivyakti.
So we all sat down, After our dinner on the night of 3rd May. In the Bambora’s Diwan-e-Khas. In the horrific presence of our beloved Manjulika. Knocking on the door behind all the time. Other than Manju, the people who made it to Diwan-e-khas (as if they had a choice)
- Chirag on the verge of sleeping at any point
- Priya reading a few highlighted lines while making sure everyone reads everything
- Akansha wondering what question Samir wants to ask
- Anusha still thinking whether to read the song or just sing it
- Nija JI who has achieved Nirvana
- Alifiya the spy reader
- Sneha with her happy crow book (though the book was about sorrow)
- Mitesh finally decided to speak
- Mehul Bolna padega yaar
- Samir holding to his question with a bright smile
- Shivam still in hangover of Affogato (it was bloody good)
- Neel calculating the Archery score
- Srijan the letter man
- Abhishek from the Punjab of Maharaja Ranjit singh
We all came there with some thoughts in mind, but as soon as it began, the edition, all the thoughts were striked out by the lightning and we were left with readers and thinkers in the Diwan-e-khas.
And the edition began. The first one to go was…
Akanksha
She read : What you’re looking for in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
The book is a Japanese bestseller. It talks about a community library and its Librarian and the individuals who are facing some or the other crisis in their life. The tale talks about how the book they were recommended helped them in their bad times.
Akanksha picked a section of the book where the story talks about Trust and how it runs the world and how there is always more than one way to look at the situation people are in.
Abhishek
He read : The fall of the kingdom of the Punjab by Khushwant Singh
The book is about the political changes which came to Punjab and how it got annexed to Britishers post Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s death.
Abhishek read the section from Anglo-sikh war, a poetry about Chillianwala and how the Attariwala father and son duo surrendered to Britishers and the plight of old Khalsas when they surrendered their weapons.
Shivam
He read : The Hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
The English translation of this Swedish classic novel talks about an ex explosive expert who is almost 100 and bored with his life in retirement home, decides to disappear one day and then the journey takes to a new adventure.
Shivam picked the story of an old man and the beginning of his journey, how he climbed out of the window and asked the ticket collector to give him the ticket which he can afford with the money he had. Shivam also narrated how the old man runaway with the bag of a young man who ask him to look after it and the young man begins to search for the old man
Sneha
She read : Grief is the thing with feather by Max Porter
The book is about a person who lost his wife, he is a father to two boys and trying to cope up with the grief of losing his wife and so is his sons. And a crow who can speak and talk to the father about grief.
Sneha read the passage where the writer talks about moving on. She mentions how the father tries to focus on multiple things in trying to move on, but realizes that the pain and grief always stays back, it never goes anywhere.
Mitesh
He read : Dark horse by Nilotpal Mrinal
The book talks about a boy Santosh from a rural area of India going to Mukherjee nagar to become an IAS officer and his endeavor to achieve his dream.
Mitesh read a passage from the book, where a villager talks to Santosh’s father Vinayak babu going to delhi to study further and becoming an IAS officer.
There was a side note discussion on the title, why it is called Dark Horse.
Here Dark Horse is used as a Metaphor for rural India students going to Delhi to become IAS officers.
Nija
She read : Bije Kyak by Vinesh Antani
The book is based on the story of three characters Sudhakar, Avni and Namita. Avni is the mother of Namita, Sudhakar and Namita meets first time after Avni’s death, the story talks about small things and events which shows how both father and daughter try to cope up with the grief and faces each other
Nija explained the backdrop of the story, where Avni goes to UK for Namita’s delivery and dies of Heart attack, she comes back to Baroda after a long time and meets her father for the first time after her mother’s death. Nija read the passage where both father and daughter confronts each other and the tension and awkwardness in the environment.
Mehul
He read : October Junction by Divya Prakash Dubey
The book is about Sudeep and Chitra, where they decide to meet on 10th October every year. Chitra is a struggling writer and Sudeep is an entrepreneur. The story talks about their life and struggle.
Mehul picked a random page from the book to read. He read about an incident where a literary agent and friend of Chitra meets her after sometime, where she notices the changes in Chitra’s appearance and offers her a ghost writing job as she continues to work on her novel.
Anusha
She read : Jiya Jale by Gulzar and Nasreen Munni Kabir
The book is a conversation between Nasreen and Gulzar about the meaning of stories behind the songs written by Gulzar.
Anusha read about the song from Ishqiya movie “Dil to Bacha hai ji”, she talked about the meaning and inspiration of Gulzar for writing that song and eventually ended up singing the same with others.
Srijan
He read : Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
The book is a collection of 10 letters written by the author to a young cadet who wants to be a poet.
Srijan reads a letter from the book and talks about how the conversation between the poet and the aspiring poet begins and how the poet guides the young cadet. They discuss and argue about their thoughts and understanding about poetries.
Neel
He read : Samsara by Saksham Garg
The book talks about Vansaya, a magical land where all the immortals live, is on the same line of Gyanganj or Shambhala.
Neel read the pages from the initial chapters where he talked about how 10 purest souls from the world are allowed to enter vansaya, and they have to prepare for the Mahayatra.understanding about poetries.
Samir
He read : Kailash Mansarovar by Anita Karwal and Anurita Rathore
The book is about the cyclists who travel to Kailash Mansarovar by cycle from Ahmedabad. The book talks about the journey of the cyclists and their adventure.
Samir talked about how the cycle narrates the journey and comparison between the cyclists and itself. He talks about the chapter name Satori which means awakening/enlightenment.
Samir was the last one to read, and we ended the session with the discussions on the real vs adopted personality of the oneself.
Alifiya
She read : Cold Harbour by Jack Higgins
The story of the book is set in World War 2 era, where a spy is sent to France and her mission gets compromised costing her life, an army officer and boyfriend of the spy is sent to convince the twin sister of the spy to take her place in France and complete the mission.
Alifiya read the conversation between the army officer and the twin sister where he tries to convince her to become a spy to complete the mission.
A well read edition, ended with a well discussed topic.
That was the Bambora edition… until next time.
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