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EDUARDO GALEANO: A CALENDAR OF HUMAN HISTORY

Eduardo Galeano wrote A Calendar of Human History: Children of the Days. Simply put, this book is a powerful piece of writing.  "Not only men lost their heads. Women, too, were decapitated and forgotten, since they weren’t important like Marie Antoinette." "Olympe de Gouges was beheaded by the French Revolution ...

REVIEW: THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS

I will start this review by professing my undying love for the word magician of this century, the fabulous Arundhati Roy whose talent of storytelling is nothing less than God's own gift for book lovers among mankind. Her debut novel, The God of Small Things, won the prestigious Booker Prize ...

BOOK REVIEW: RUMI’S DAUGHTER

My first encounter with Rumi's and Shams' unconventional affair was when I read 'Forty rules of Love', a bestseller from the author Elif Shafak. That book mainly revolves around the love of Rumi for Shams and the hatred of his townspeople and Rumi's family towards Shams, and Shams' rules of love. After ...