 Picture Credit: Shruti Kishore Sahi Ingredients for DoughConsidering 1 cup to be 250 ml, given below are the quantities:
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 Picture Credit: Shruti Kishore Sahi INGREDIENTS FOR DOUGH
 Photo Credit: Kevin Braun After nearly six months of isolation and remote execution of academic tasks, I decided to visit Mr & Mrs Sahi at Karlsruhe. This visit was a crucial break as with every passing day my belief grew certain that I was pacing towards a burnout on a personal, professional, and artistic level.
Though corona spread like wildfire for a few months in the starting of the year, things started to work either out of need or force. Even when many knew the trouble was still hanging around and more of it was yet to come. The bitter reality was that except for covering faces with masks that were not just unsettling but mostly non-helpful due to the intellectuals who used them without covering their nose, there was nothing anyone could do. So, with varying climates, unsettling streets, panicking public, I finally met them. Though the absence of the little prince was evident, the cosy chambers, spicy food, positive ambience, & healthy atmosphere were the most needed comforts for a time. Not to mention the unlimited screen time, evening walks, winter shopping, & short trips. This book has no plot, no gripping action and when you put it down, you don’t feel any sense of achievement. It’s rather tiring, and exhausting to the point you open Netflix and start watching some meaningless show.
The Catcher in the Rye is a long monologue about Holden Caulfield and how everything in his world is pitted against him. As monologues go, we get to see only Holden’s justifications, and his explanations about his actions leave the reader dissatisfied. The book begins with Holden Caulfield, our phoney protagonist, and frustrated teenager, getting expelled from school because he cared little for school to the point of not attending an exam. The school management and the Principal, already tired of his behaviour, ask him to leave. Holden, the rich entitled teenager he is, decides to spend the next two days in New York before going home. In these two days, he drinks a dozen jugs of alcohol, hires a prostitute, goes on a date with his ex, just to tell her rude things, gets into brawls and eventually becomes depressed and decides to leave his family to make his ‘own way in the world of adults’.
 Vaidurya Pratap Sahi & Shruti Kishore Sahi at Humboldtsaal, Freiburg, Germany. On 8th November 2019, in Freiburg Germany, an “International Cultural Evening: Leave the Bubble, Come Together” took place in “Humboldtsaal”. The purpose of this event was to bring people from different cultures together and share their art-forms.
Organized once every year, this event usually comprises thirty or more artists from across ten or more countries. In 2019, from our community, Mr Vaidurya Pratap Sahi & Mrs Shruti Kishore Sahi took part in it and have read two poems. “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes - A book that should be read again and again till its message is truly unveiled.
When I was reading Harry Potter for the first time, I deliberately kept postponing reading the last few chapters, as I didn’t want the book to end. At the same time, I also wished to finish the book as soon as possible. I felt like, “This book must end, I can’t take this emotional turmoil anymore and I am not ready for its message.” My curiosity got the better of me and I decided to keep going. The last page left my eyes moist, legs trembling. The world around me seemed to slow down. Adoration, disgust, hopefulness, loneliness, love, peacefulness and shame are some of the emotions I felt while reading this short novel. I have never had a good opinion on self-help/management books except “Think and Grow Rich” and “The Magic of Thinking Big”. I don’t blame the books or the authors, maybe it has always been my fault because I kept reading the books without applying their offered principles. It was like learning a tip and thinking about how simple it would make my life but moving on without giving it a try.
This week I had a chance to read the book Corporate Avatars by Disha Chhabra. In the beginning, I was reluctant to even open the book, as I learned that the author is from an Indian Institute of Management, complete credit to Chetan Bhagat. After a few pages, I became too reluctant to put the book down. |
