Childhood, Maturity and love for Comics. How comics vanishing from Indian childhood.

13 years ago, I had thought about the subject and published as my second blog with similar title. As it was earlier days of blogging, it was all about venting rage and frustration of then youthful mind against taboo societal norms and rigid think-models. I was "amateur" blogger. I had yet to witness cultural liberation …

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Books above and beyond: Providence by Alan Moore

Alan Moore is enigma. Each of his writing as primary author had to be considered as "above and beyond". Watchmen, graphic novel that established his reputation amongst critics and most of the reading world, was just one arrow out of many in his repertoire. What makes him one of the greatest writer of all time …

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Get scared, very scared…

Halloween 2020 must have acquired its true essence, considering the havoc caused by COVID-19 pandemic since the initiation of the year. That which is unknown and invisible makes us more scared than ghosts or monsters or apparitions. Even surpassing true horror lies within misleading mazes of human brain and its crooked crannies shrouded in impenetrable …

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Even though I'm predictably irregular with year end resolutions which were only put through proper observation during few initiated months of the new year and logarithmically dissolved into daily soup of chores by the time year ends; I can still count myself pretty overachiever while considering challenges related to reading. Reading has been emerged with …

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One more year passed by in blink and here we stood again at same conjecture to review gone year, wearing reading glasses with courtesy of goodreads.com.  Passed year in terms of reading could be summarized in short as "the year in prose". Where I still clung to tried-n-tested authors for modern literature; number of classics …

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Comic Con 2017 – Pune,India

“More of the Same.” is befitting summary to this years’ Comic-Con, Pune 2017. As if venue and layout almost matching to the last year’s event, there was no variety in terms of shops and merchandise also baring few surprises. Comic-Con is always celebratory conglomeration of the geeks, nerds and all the fantastic not-so-fit-in-social-conceptions individuals. At …

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End of one more year occasioned me to slap and shake my sleeping personal blog to wide awake and review what has gone well in lost year of 2016 and what’s promising in upcoming year 2017 on measuring scale of reading. At time of typing, I am still 2 books short of my over-enthused resolution …

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