Blabbermouths for your lessons on dust storm

Thank you very much for your elaborate description of the sand storm you have experienced through the window of your flat. For your information, we were outside, saw the storm approaching, took shelter in a shop, waited n waited and finally headed home. No signals, no street lights. Thanks to our expert driver we managed to reach home stirred n shaken. It was a damn thrilling experience. 

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

A collection of eight short stories woven in her usual terrain- family life and immigrant experience- portray the lives of people caught up in different cultures and generations. Most of them are about the dramas and tragedies and  mixed feelings of American raised Bengali children. Each plot is surprisingly unique and intricate.


Quite an engrossing read.

The Namesake- Jhumpa Lahiri

Both the novel and the movie are sentimental and touching. It's about the struggles of Bengali immigrants and the conflicts of their American -born children - the concurrent theme of Lahiri's literary works. Evidently autobiographical, the novel is deep and utterly intense.


What is there in a name yaar? Yet your name is supposed to the sweetest word in the world. If you get a chance to change it, would you change it? If so what will it be?