Pens and Places

  I am so excited to participate in BlogchatterA2Z 2023 challenge. This is my first time participation for this awesome initiative by Blogchatter team and I am looking forward for the best ever creative month of April. I have decided to write on a theme "Mindfulness Practices" for whole month, scripted with initials of English language alphabets. Let's begin 😃 For more details on the challenge, read here .

  “The Unwanted Boy and Other Stories” is a collection of 11 short stories. The stories revolve around the unspoken emotions and feelings, unexpected twists, predestined happenings of real lives and more. As this collection of weaved stories is a debut book for Charmila M Sankar, I must say she has done a quite commendable job in delivering the unheard tales of mundane lives. She has not only showcased the little things of human’s actions, but also curated a perfect dependence on somatic sensation.  All the stories are so interrelated and yet very different from each other. Also, it’s very confusing to hold the grip at first, because initially the story doesn’t make sense, be it the imaginative part or the reality part. But as soon as you proceed to other stories, then you may get the gist of the last one, or the essence through it is saying the actual pain or sufferings in most silent ways.  I also wonder why the author has opted for the title “The Unwanted Boy and Other stories”, as

  “Ladies’ Tailor” is a type of book, which you can pick up any time and will be engrossed in it like a real spectator of the whole journey. This is not a regular story of post-partition scenes of India and Pakistan. You will get to encounter different stages of refugee’s life, the conditions of natives and their righteous demands, the ultimate paradigm of neighborhood, the uncalled broken relations and the rise of new entrepreneurship of Indian economies.  The story revolves around a refugee, Gurudev who showcased the real market of livelihood across the borders. Through his eyes, you can see the hypothetical social stratification, happening around the people of east and west Punjab. How the situations were contradictory for both sides of the boundaries. How people were killed just on the basis of their genetic labels and structures. Author has shown an abundance of guts through Gurudev, how he had managed to move to another so-called-new-country, and made new arrangements from scratc

  What a classic adaptation of the legendary “Devdas”! You can smell the sweat of Dev’s frustration, Paro’s consciousness and Chandramukhi’s hopeless love while sailing through Aayush Gupta’s savage words. Initially, I totally was ingrained by the title of this book. I thought it would be an anti-Devdas type of romance novel. To some extent, I was even right. But after reading, there was something else on the platter. Whole generative prospect stares on with the look of outraged disbelief. Author has just painted the dimensions of literary art work with the antique play on a different dimension itself.  Obviously, the story revolves around three super-famous characters i.e. Devdas, Paro and Chandramukhi. But oh my my! The twists and the variations are presented at the drop of a giant hat.  You will surely see Devdas in his most vulnerable forms, where he is not only caught with a junkie panorama, but also tries his level best to get comments by everyone for his heinous acts.  Paro , a