I’m a movie buff. I watch movies whenever I can. Even daily. My name is Jesil and I am an addict. I like watching movies. I like how actors give life to characters and how a story panning years can be told in less than 3 hours. I love how it makes me forget my worries and get distracted by moving pictures. The silver screen has always intrigued me. I am also a bookworm. I like books just as...
Very rarely do I read a book that makes me contemplate on its contents for hours on end marveling at the mind of the author. Even rarer are the times when I actually read a book that isn't academic, with a highlighter at hand. This book explores mental health and the surrounding stigma in the most meaningful and neutral manner as possible from the history of psychology, to explaining the...
Henry Ward Beecher said, “Books are the windows through which the soul looks out”. I have always found that statement quite thought-provoking and curious. It always made me wonder as to what the soul does when we aren’t reading books. What is a soul anyway? This is not the first time anyone has heard this question. The funniest and the most common answer for this question, however, was given by...
I’ll be honest, this is a topic that I have always wanted to explore based on personal experiences and thoughts. I have been an avid reader and a bookworm for a long time. Since my first picture book in kindergarten probably and I have always loved them. That interest and love for the written word only grew as time passed. They kept me company when the real world was too much to handle and...
It's been a while since I wrote here. Been a hectic month. More posts explaining April are coming soon. Dead To ThemBy Smitha Bhattacharya This is a story about a group of friends who realize that a girl they know has gone missing. The story starts out slow and moves at the same pace throughout. It builds up the storyline in a very good manner though. It also does a good job of keeping the reader...
Yes, that’s right. We have a name. Finally! Its been sometime since the last post so I think there’s a bit of updating to be done. Since the last post in ‘Startup Diaries’ (#SD1), quite a bit has happened. I had to resubmit the incorporation application two more times. I lost a client who I thought would be our ticket out into the open world. And. I learned that getting...
