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Bridges of Madison County – A Special Love Story
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides – David Viscott
This quote brings back memories of “Bridges of Madison County”...

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Feb 25, 20213 min read


The Fallen Flower: A Poem about Life
Literature reflects life and reveals its intricacies through poems and other literary genres. Language and literature influence society...

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jan 29, 20216 min read


Found in translation: Ek Hota Carver
In my case, quotidian events, everyday ordinary conversations have led to extraordinary reflections. It all began when we...

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jan 13, 20214 min read


My Family and Other Animals: A book review
Children live a world that is astonishingly imaginative, gaily coloured and unflatteringly honest. Paradoxical?

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Nov 7, 20203 min read


Recipe for Fear: Top 10 Ruskin Bond stories to read for Halloween
“I thought I heard voices in the wind; and perhaps I did. For isn’t the wind the voice of the undying dead?” ~ R. Bond, Listen to the Wind

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Oct 31, 20204 min read


'The Crucible': Where Reality is scarier than Fiction!
“A false tongue will never make a guilty person.”- Susannah Martin, victim of the Salem Witch Trials

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Oct 22, 20204 min read


Chanakya Revamped
’Acharya, don't citizens have the right to know how their tax revenues are being used?'
'Dear me. No, no, no....
Anagha Natekar
Sep 30, 20202 min read


The Child Finder: A Book Review
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared from a forest in Oregon while choosing a Christmas tree with her family. Her family is harrowed

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 24, 20203 min read


A Thousand Splendid Suns: A Book Where the Daughters are the Sunshine!
Khaled Hosseini’s second outing in 2007 is a captivating tale encapsulating the lives of Mariam and Laila, two women born 20 years apart mar

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 18, 20206 min read


Freedom From The 'Cage'
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning”- Maya Angelou

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Aug 10, 20203 min read


‘The Metamorphosis’ by Franz Kafka
“ I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the hea

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jul 25, 20203 min read


Words of Making: Ursula Le Guin’s Magical World of Earthsea
“Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk’s flight
on the empty sky.”
— The Creation of Ea

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jul 5, 20205 min read


A Colourful Celebration of Womanhood
” I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Eltis-Sifil Symbiosis
Jun 27, 20202 min read
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