Neha's Notebook

Daffodils is a beautiful poem penned by William Wordsworth featuring a Quatrain-Couplet rhyme scheme pattern of A-B-A-B-C-C. The poetry is said to be themed on an experience in which Wordsworth was strolling through a hilltop valley when he came across a valley dazzling with streams of golden yellow daffodils. Metaphorically, he compares himself to a cloud who was wandering aimlessly in the sky until he caught the glimpse of the sight of golden daffodils, which seemed to fill his heart with the bliss of solitude, rejuvenating his poetic creative spirit at the same time. Read the full poem below!  I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in spr

The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Swaying and pulsating with pipey-hot spice descriptions, syrupy-emotive narrative, portrait-worthy characters and beautiful storytelling, The Mistress of Spices is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakurni, the Indian-American writer and poet. Tantalizing, enchanting, charming and bewitching, the novel is a work of fiction, most-appropriately falling into the category of magic realism fiction. But apart from all things magic, the book also ripples with romance, and croons with the fragrance of feelings like courage, intuition and following one’s heart. The novel, fundamentally is rooted in the connection that plays between human mind and the psychological healing power embodied in different Indian spices. The Mistress of Spices is a novel depicting the story of a young woman who is born gifted with certain magical powers. The story takes the reader through a spectacular journey of how she navigates the discovery of her magical pow

A work of fiction, in writing or otherwise, is a creative concoction of characters, settings and scenarios which are all, but only illusory formations carved by the function of human mind called as ‘imagination’. Yet for most humans, storytelling forms the make-up of majority of our life’s time. Stories! These fabricated vistas, slapped with wodges of tremors, trepidations and sensations; trammeling with shams of ideas and waves of emotion lapping through…Stories are those quirks of tricks and lies, in the backdrop of which, lurks a still quietude of the emotional center that hums and rustles in the heartbeats of its truest readers and listeners. Discover below, a collection dazzling with forty insightful quotations from some of the greatest writers-storytellers, on the topic of ‘fiction’. To read all of these in one go (with background music!) begin straight from the following video, or skip through this to read them one by one. Yowzers! #1  Fiction is the truth inside the l

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells Is it possible for a human to travel through time? The answer is unknown to most of us. Except only, that the character of ‘TIME-TRAVELLER’ in this book, says that this is possible! THE TIME MACHINE BY H.G. WELLS ‘The Time Machine’ is a science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. In its storyline narrative, it elaborates the journey of a Time-traveller through various realms of time in past and future. Dotted with generous descriptions and beautifully-crafted storytelling, the novel was the first in the series of the texts which introduced the concept of time-travel. The book begins with the time-traveller demonstrating to his audience over dinner, his experimental time-machine that is made in brass and ivory. He attempts to explain to them that with the help of this machine, humans would be able to travel through time. THE TIME-TRAVELLER’S DINNER DAY ONE Taking the example of a 3D cube, he explains that what we call as geometry is based