Life and Shenanigans

  In the modern world that is so fast paced, and based on shortcuts it is a well known fact that if u make an 8 hour long movie, nobody would watch take the same story and make into episodes of one hour each and the viewer would watch it straight through, the same philosophy works out to be true in the world of books too especially when we talk about readers who have just started out on their journey to read, books that are, stories that are addictive is the perfect blend always.  Love and Other Demons, the untold tales By Paras, is one such wonderful lazy Sunday read, that is going to keep the readers hooked on from the first page to the last, the book is a collection of 13 stories, beautifully penned emotions, from the viewpoint of every character, lets you travel through the world and words, and the different perspectives of each , gliding flawlessly, as the name suggests love and other demons refers to not the straightforwardness of a love story, but deals with the manifol...

 What attracted me the most to this book was the title itself, “mythological Monolougues” as soon as the recommendation flashed on my screen I knew I had to read this, being an Indian none of us have not been introduced to the mighty hindu mythology epics like Ramayan and Mahabharata, which are long stories of the lives of several charecters revolving around a central theme, while the Ramayana focuses on the lives of Ram, Sita, Lakshman and Hanuman , and the Mahabharata revolves around the lives of the pandavas and draupadi. Both these epics still contain various other charecters, with numerous layers to their personalities, while reading the epics it is very easy to ignore them. But Purba Chakraborty, in her collection “Mythological Monolougues” brilliantly gets all these charecters the famous ones and the not so famous ones alive, in our living spaces. Tired of the singular narratives that the epics have assigned them, purba’s version of the monolougues by these charecters is a r...