Solitude and Books

Ruskin Bond is one of those authors that take us to a place through his stories and makes us witness the beauty of nature!  He is no doubt one of the most eminent Indian authors of all times and yes one of my favourite storytellers too.  I have  two of his best collections  already :  Night Train at Deoli  Small Town,  Big Stories  and the stories in those were amazing.  And when yet another collection just came in I was thrilled to get my hands on it through @alephbookco There are 15 short stories yet again in this book.  This pitch-perfect collection brings together the very best tales he has written in the twenty-first century. The book starts with the title story, ‘Song of the Forest’, which has never been published before, and includes extraordinary pieces of fiction like ‘A Man Called Brain’, ‘Rhododendrons in the Mist’, and ‘Miracle at Happy Bazaar’. Dazzling, comic, and gripping, Song of the Fo...

Lies Look Like Love by Author Bijaya Kumar Mishra  It's a story that revolves around secrets kept  safe within the heart of people engaged in this tale. It's the story that has Maya in centre who is now a lonely woman amidst a villa in a desolate forest when her husband's sudden demise left her dumb struck. While she tries to cope up with the grief she is followed by a mysterious feeling that someone might be having eyes on her. But before she can have any witness she feels it's a game of her own depressed mind.  While things start to develop, a young man comes to live with them in the same villa who was trying to find a rented place for himself. Slowly we see Maya and Ravi start to develop some emotions for each other but someone is there who would keep daggers down with him on every meet.  What is Samira trying to pass on to Ravi? What age da does she have in the indirect signals? Slowly a lot of secrets, lies and mysteries start to uncover ...

The Truth in its Essence is a beautiful book that speaks of  many characters at once linked by simple threads of relationships.  Do you have a secret? And if someday the world comes to know about it would it be for the better or the worst ? Have you even put a thought upon it ?  Such is the life of these people. A single mom , a young man, a supporting neighbour and a boss. All of them have a happy life. From outside everything seems well and good until you enter their inner selves which each hide a dark secret from the past or the present.  Suri has a dark past where an incident shakes his soul up. The single mom had a secret that if comes to light can break many bonds. Similarly the habit of a person if gets spilled can change his world and another once witness of some incidents cut him from his near and dear ones but they all keep mum not revealing their secrets in any way. But twists of life are unknown and thus with its tricks they all come up. What ...