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In a strange enchanting backdrop, the novel came with such issues which are easy to ignore but hard to discuss! REVIEWED BY BODHISATTYA PAL BOOK: THE MEMORY POLICE AUTHOR: YOKO OGAWA TRANSLATOR: STEPHEN SNYDER PUBLISHER: PANTHEON BOOKS BLURB:  GOODREADS GRAVITY: ' National  Book Award for Translated Literature 2019' 'International Booker Prize 2020' REVIEW: 👮A mysterious island with its own rules - things are vanishing fast along with the memories linked with it, snow is falling restlessly and they, the Memory Police, are roaming to ensure & enforce the annihilation! Quite a nebulous, eerie and enchanting premise. 🦅The Memory Police is a very strange novel. It keeps changing its mood & motive. It is very hard to specify its genre. The novel is partly dystopian, partly sci-fi, partly political and partly philosophical sometimes. 🖋️Yoko Ogawa started this novel with the disappearances as focal theme. The plot was expanding and ...

COLLISION OF GREED & DOMINANCE BENEATH THE SHADOWS OF FATIMA MAHAL REVIEW by BODHISATTYA PAL Movie Review Gulabo Sitabo by Shoojit Sircar 🐐Starting with the traditional puppet show of Uttar Pradesh, Shoojit Sircar's latest directorial is a good old fable in the disguise of a modern satire. 💡Gulabo Sitabo is a story of collision revolving around a century old haveli. The collision is between the stingy owner Mirza, his wife Fatima, the 'parasite' Baankey along with other tenants, the Archeological department & the law. But there is another collision flowing beneath the shadows of 'Fatima Mahal' - the collision of greed & dominance. 🐐Sircar is a character maker more than a film maker. His stories are usually mono dimensional, but the characters are unforgettable. But unlike his filmography, Gulabo Sitabo is little different. It has a solid, multi layered, thought provoking story inside. The characters are weird. Not a single character is act...

A BRUTAL YET BEAUTIFUL BRILLIANCE by BODHISATTYA PAL BOOK:  10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World AUTHOR: ELIF SHAFAK PUBLISHER: VIKING (PENGUIN BOOKS) PUBLISHING DATE: 6/6/2019 BLURB:  GOODREADS BLURB 🏆 BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED 🏆 THE BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2019 REVIEW: 🧿Leila Tequila's body has been left in the dumpster after murder; her heart gave up but her mind was in transition from the day of her birth to the day of being murdered for another 10 minutes 38 seconds! Haven't come across such an original & intriguing premise for a long. 🌀Born into 'not a normal family', Leila's childhood was as normal as a Turkish muslim girl. An over fanatic father, an incoherent mother and an eerie aunt full of secret. Everything was quite fine untill her body & mind gained maturity. "Little did she yet understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child’s body changes with puberty, but whe...