“The Housekeeper and the Professor” by Yoko Ogawa explores a delicate interaction between math and human interactions. Ogawa weaves an unique narrative between her characters, the housekeeper, her son, Root, and the professor that transcends time and memory. The professor, a brilliant mathematician with a memory that lasts 80 minutes. He is a symbol of …
I’m nothing but a house of cards,
Falling, folding into one another,
As each card hugs the others,
…
Roaming around without shape, drifting
into nothingness, adrift
from a home, shadowless forms escape
…
As a/an artist and writer, having mixed feelings towards technological advancements that potentially can take away from the value of writers and artists is justifiable. AI is rapidly changing the shape in how we retrieve, access, and converse with data. When it takes seconds for AI to produce an art piece or chatGPT to write …
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“Surrogate” depicts detachment, autonomy, guilt/relief through our main character Sarama and her situation with her husband, Soumen.
Sarama, a school teacher living in a joint family marriage taking care of her husband, Soumen’s father, and his two younger siblings. Sarama’s dream is to have a child – of her own to take care of.
The Novice: A Story of True Love is about a young woman called Kinh Tam who disguises herself as a man to pursue the life of a Buddhist monk. Though, living a man’s life for much of Kinh Tam’s time – she displays courage, endurance, curiosity and empowerment as a feminist.
The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed, takes place in Canada where the Earth is no longer recognizable the way we know it now. Reid, the protagonist in the story and the antagonist within herself, deals with a new disease caused by fungi called Cad.
Jaspal Kaur Singh paints a picture of what it means to be an Indian/desi woman.
There’s a great book called The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins – where she talks about the importance of taking action within 5 seconds of an idea. This is because “your brain kills the idea” as Mel Robbins puts it. The ‘killing’ of the idea …
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