Pages and Beyond

What happens when two friends share their love of reading and discuss about their favourite read?

Here I am in discussion with Siddharth on Lessons in Chemistry.

“Lessons in Chemistry is about Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist who faces sexism and discrimination in the 1960s, but her life takes a turn when she becomes the unlikely host of a cooking show. However, she’s not just teaching women to cook—she’s teaching them science and challenging societal norms”

Listen to this first guest episode of Pages & Beyond.

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“I never thought I’d lose you. It happened too suddenly. I still don’t want to believe it. I can’t believe it. You are with me now, but when I return to the present, we’ll never meet again. Why is life so cruel?”

Wait, wait, wait, what is it with “returning to present” isn’t she is in present. No, my friends, your host is back with the fifth book of the series where people can travel through time.

“I am not your data, nor am I your vote bank

I am not your project, or any exotic museum object

I am not the soul waiting to be harvested

Nor am I the lab where your theories are tested

I am not your cannon fodder, or the invisble worker,

Or your entertainment at India Habitat Center

I am not your field , your crowd, your history

Your help your guilt you medallions of your victory,

I refuse reject resist your labels

Your judgements, documents, definitions

Your models, leaders and patrons

Because they deny me my existence my vision my space

Your words, maps, figures, indicators

They all create illusions and put you on pedestal

From where you look down upon me

So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar

I make my own tools to fight my own battle

For me, my people, my world, and my Adivasi self!”

Such a powerful poem by Abhay Xaxa, an Advasi Poet

“Problems are a constant in life. When you solve your health problem by buying a gym membership, you create new problems,

like having to get up early to get to the gym on time, sweating for 30 minutes on an elliptical, and then getting showered and changed for work so you don’t stink up the whole office. When you solve your problem of not spending enough time with your partner by designating Wednesday night as ‘date night’, you generate new problems such as figuring out what to do every Wednesday that you both won’t hate, making sure you have enough money for nice dinners.”

Problems never stop; they merely get exchanged or upgraded.

What do you think?

“Do you wonder about the scenes behind the cricket tournaments where players bidding happens? If not so, here's to diving in the chaotic and mysterious world of behind the scenes of team formation.”

Do you know I have written books too?

You will find me reading and talking about books most of time, but did you find me writing one?

I am sure you did not because rarely I talked about them and that rare is when I am coming up with a new book.

So hear this episode to know about my books!

“The trick to keeping a secret is: don't write it down!”

Just listen to that line again, and reflect! Let me highlight this quote. Often we either unfold secrets by sharing or may be oversharing. But if you keep it unshared, and still wish to clear off the mind, never ever dare to write it down, you never know who can get hold of it.

Thinking about why am I talking about this, because today’s episode is about one such story where the chaos happened because of the written secret.

"Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught."

Wow, one of the best ways to express wisdom, it is the truth many won’t accept and run behind inheriting wisdom from others. I am sure you are also in deep thought about it now. So, to break your chain of thoughts, here I am!

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky was so starry, so bright that looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.”

OMG, this book and the quotes in it are so powerful and soothing to keep you hooked for the longest times.

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“Do you believe in black magic or the supernatural? Everyone talks about scientific reasons and stuff but know one understand behind the scenes of the supernatural powers. I am sure you are also wondering why am I mentioning about black magic and the supernatural power, because our book for today’s episode is around horror, suspense and supernatural.”