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Assalamu Alaikum dear reader friends!! Happy to be back with a "sweet sounding" greeting for the New Year!! Wish you all a happpppyyyyy New Year filled with success and prosperity!!! Life has been going well dear amigos... with the help of books and music! What is life if one doesn't have time to read at least 50 pages or so, before going to sleep every night?! So friends this time I chose this beautiful treatise on "senses" by Diane Ackerman!!  The book is called A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES !!  Thanks a million Dr Kunhammad for introducing me to this growing genre called Sensory Studies !!   Special thanks to  Dr Rufus , our admin @ Readers' Rendezvous , for his stimulating ideas on Creativity which inspired me to write this post! Sensory Studies involve a cultural, anthropological, sociological, psychological, and an aesthetic approach to the study of senses .  In short, "The sensorium is a fascinating focus for cultural st...

Assalamu Alaikum my dear reader friends, Here I am, after a long pause, back to infotain you with the buzzing nuances of life... Wish you had been with me on this roller coaster "space-travel" kinda ride that I'm going through right now... Haha.. I would say it's been one hell of a ride... yes, it was exhilarating, thrilling and thoughtful! The joggers' lane at our housing society Presently I'm in Chennai . I live in a society, where lifestyle is booming with speed, valour, friendship, and a serendipity of mixed emotions. I had to go through a very long process of preparation mentally and physically to pull myself into Chennai's sizzling chromosphere!  Well, as usual I take my long evening walks inside our housing society, where I presume I have a lot of space for myself to be "me". I quietly love the experience!! Of peekabooing through the canopies and listening to the endless arpeggios of the Cuckoo.. Additionally, what enhances my s...

Assalamu Alaikum dear reader friends..! The recent tremors in the society, here in Tamil Nadu, does leave us--the citizens of India, in a distressful blind-spot. When brothers and sisters of our society bleed to death, we sit here in front of our idiot boxes, tuning into various possible channels to find something new about those vengeful corporate hoaxes.It really is a heart-wrenching disaster, when you can't help but just be one among the silent-observers of this murderous mayhem. We never know the origins or the undercurrents associated with this STERLITE CONSPIRACY that has been a harbinger of all this chaos, recently.. Yet, the consequent killings that had to yield more than ten innocent lives does leave an incurable scar, on our social as well as our cultural history. It is our cultural CREEDS or the belief systems, that's being challenged in this situation today. We, as the underestimated lot, the CROODS who need to refine our thought processes towards our creeds,...

Assalamu Alaikum.. Hello my dear friends, I'm sharing with you my take on the book "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie . It is a brief nostalgia of my adventure with this non-fiction treatise. The title itself speaks of its honesty within its pages. Shortly, the book behaves like a memorandum of its owner's confessions. It contains a multitude of anecdotes, methods and protocols for helping us comprehend and tackle our worries in the best way possible. At the end of every chapter, we are provided with a set of simple questions for self-analysis, which helps us evaluate our own perceptions in handling our daily daymares. It's still funny, when every time I turn its pages to see my handwritten notes on petty problems faced during my college days. It's interesting and reaffirming, that my confidence and happiness has grown with every level of life's challenges. The book has made me become a better human and will continue to be… For in...

Assalamu Alaikum... Dear friends … let me share with you the experience of reading one of my most favorite books, which I keep handy, to open up anywhere anytime to get relaxation.. every person comes to a point where he staggers in the crossroads of life. He's left to decide whether to go right or left, and whether to go back or move ahead.. such crossroads leave man in an intense search for truth and identity.He goes to all kind of spiritual and religious books ever written, in search for an answer.. One such book that can transform a person from being null to a person of eminence is, Mahatria Ra’s “Unposted Letter” . The book is a mélange of spirituality and modernity. Mahatria Ra combines the simplicity of everyday living with the grandeur of Godliness. Every man who reads the book is promised by Ra right in the beginning as, “Open any page. An answer is seeking the seeker.” Ra helps one to trace the most and more out of every strand in human life. He raises concerns on ar...