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  Genre: Gothic fiction, romance, tragedy Author: Emily Brontë Rating:  Read the disclaimer Disclaimer: This is not a review. Rather consider this a discussion. Yet, it might contain the storyline because I feel not many have read Wuthering Heights, merely because it’s not being spoken about much. I always wanted to read Wuthering Heights because of the contrast in people’s opinions about this. This mainly tingled my curiosity when I noticed some people who normally liked romance novels hated this book, in spite of it majorly being a romantic novel. Initial part of the book, left me wanting more because this is the first Gothic Classic I read. But after finishing the book, I closed it and stared at it for a while, saying nothing, thinking nothing. Lockwood is a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange. He visits his landlord, Heathcliff, at Wuthering Heights where he meets some unwelcome, incongruous people. He stays there that night only to be frightened by a ghostly presence...

Genre: Historical fiction Author: Uday Singh Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I don’t want to be one of the majority that don’t seem to care about others. I don’t want to be adding to the problem; I want to be a part of a solution.” India, being the most populous democracy with the coexistence of various cultures, faces many questions and problems that arise day by day in large numbers. This book takes aim at a problem and answers many questions. Pokhran is the story of Chaintanya who was born a few months after the Smiling Buddha nuclear test held in the underground of a remote village in Rajasthan named Pokhran. The test was a success, but at a cost paid by the people of Pokhran is left unattended. Chaitanya is born disabled. Taken care by a loving sister and a stern father, Chaitanya goes through a lot at a very young age. Lost innocence and blood-bound passion are things hard to change. When his father is killed for trying to uncover the nuclear fallout to the world, Chaitanya is forced to ...

Bells of my heart rang loud, pupil grew wider, palms started to sweat, lips dried out, mouth ajar and body frozen. How many of you have experienced this state of yourself? Why? Is it always because of the love of your life? Fear begs to differ. Yes. Attraction could make your heart skip a beat, alter your reality, and make you feel like you are floating when he/she is attracted to you too. But fear could make your heart stop beating, crash your reality, and lift your soul to float its way to heaven as you lay dead when your fear comes true. It was definitely fear in my case. Fear is constant. For everyone who believes change is constant, fear poses as a pioneer of contention with its omnipresence. The rad is that, like most other things, there are 2 sides to this coin as well – The good and the bad. The good is that it gives you an image of what a failure could be and makes you run in the opposite direction. The bad is that it gives you a phantasm of the worst and forbids you...