STORAGE OF MIND

About Author:  Kusum Choppra with various experiences from life and the world around her has rich background for writing from women’s viewpoints; picking out grains of truth to tell stories that set aside patriarchal inculcation, for a female perspective. She has two novels published before this one. Beyond Diamond Rings and Mastani. Writing Style: 4/5 “Nirbhaya & others who DARED” is a collection of 22 stories based on various strata of society. Few of them are Thakuraains and few of them are peasants. Few of them are simple housewives and few of them working women. These women represent stories of the entire woman gender. Trodden and humiliated by world, this gender has suffered from the very day of her creation and it has continued till date. The form of injustice and suffering continues in many way. Rape, adultery, infanticide, dowry, human trafficking, forced into prostitution and many more to pen down. These 22 stories are the mirror of the soci...

About author: Ashwati Menon, a native of Kerala, brought up in Gujarat did MCA and her passion for pouring her emotions in written form got her published in Drenched souls-Moonlit Matinee 2. ‘Scarred for Life, Healed Forever’ is her first novel. Writing Style:3.5/5 Ashwati Menon is an emerging star in literary world. She already made critics take her note through her short story in Drenched souls-Moonlit Matinee 2. ‘Scarred for Life, Healed Forever’ is her first novel and as a reviewer, as a reader I must say she has achieved what she wanted. There are very few works which can absorb my attention totally and this one made to that list. I put aside all of my tasks and continued to read the novel. I completed it in one sitting and I must say Ashwati has got awesome future in this field.  ‘Scarred for Life, Healed Forever’ is story of a girl Nishtha Vaidya, who is next door girl living in Ahmedabad. She seems quite normal girl, if you meet her in a restau...

About Author:   Amit Shankar, An avid music buff and a great exponent of guitar, a coffee lover, a great reader, great author and many more adjectives to join in. He has presented society with four gems Flight of the Hilsa, Chapter Eleven, Love is a Vodka-a shot ain’t Enough, and Café Latte.  Writing Style: 4/5  What is love? This is the universal question as person from every religion, country, and caste and if we remember alien from PK then aliens, too must have faced this question in their lifetime at least once. Here we have one more addition and it’s Moon aka ‘Mon Ami’. A normal girl whom we would find buried in her gadgets, sipping coffee at Barista or CCD or flaunting the brands she possess. Moon, too at one juncture in novel seems of the same clique. As the novel begins, Moon is shown in a clinic for abortion. There isn’t a slightest hint about the father of the child in this chapter. As the story ensues, more information about...

About Author: Mayur Didolkar has been writing fiction since the age 14. This is his first published work. He works as an Investment Advisor in Pune.  Writing Style: 3.5/5. “Kumbhpur Rising” by Mayur Didolkar is work of fiction and this is the work which can left you in such a horror that you won’t be able to switch off the lights at night. It happened with me. I was not able to gather courage to get glass of water from kitchen. Okay, okay, I admit that I am already a coward girl but trust me dear reader, ‘Kumbhpur Rising’ has the gut to raise fear any brave heart reader. At first in beginning I found it bit befuddling with too many characters and thought the novel to be tedious. But as soon as the story shifted in Kumbhpur, I was all set to join characters in this horrifying journey of revenge and bloodshed, fight with undead people. From the cover page of novel I thought of any historical fiction due to its title ‘Kumbhpur Rising” but my whole assumption went upsid...