Akshara Pradhan

blogs from Bangalore

Interlude
It's amazing how quickly one falls off the bandwagon between birthdays, festivals and anniversaries. Diets and blogging both seems to need a discipline that I lack most days. What else can explain my utter silence for three months? Perhaps the distraction of TV on demand also means less time reading...
Posted on 30 November 2020 | 6:39 pm
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The comfort read
As the movie headline goes, there's something about Becky. I got on the band-wagon of the so-called chick lit fairly late (don't even get me started on the moniker!), preferring Regency romances and their ilk. But from the time I first read the Shopaholic series, I was hooked. Even today, when a new...
Posted on 31 August 2020 | 10:41 pm
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The boarding school one
The Lying Game brings back memories of Mallory Towers with its descriptions of train rides, room sharing and towers. The author has confessed to her own fascination with boarding school stories. But this is not a nostalgic school reunion and she deftly weaves in what is the reality of school life wi...
Posted on 20 August 2020 | 9:20 pm
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