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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...

The bell rang. I enter the class. The solid silence Is broken by the chirps Of sparrows and The perfume of grass… Never ending smiles Of children, Drizzle upon me (I was an amateur then.. A terrified me..!) I still remember.. The “shy” boy From the last bench, Arose to give me His name. I noted down quickly And went on with the rest.. He was The first in number.. Was a diligent pupil.. One among the best! Another “little” one Gazes at me From the first bench, With an infinite grin-- That brings about A silken glee Inside my crowded head; And in some way He seems endearing.. Makes me chuckle too…!! As I see them all, Buckled tight To their benches, Ready to roll.. For in me “They believed” And probably Saw an aureole..! My heart swells In pride, Everyday.. At the sight of this Serene morning routine.. Which shuns, doubtlessly, My pains of past, Present, and future, away..! Sud...

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...