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I posted tgis review on Parhai Likhai's website as well. I'm sharing it here for the convenience of those who like to visit my blog to read book reviews 😊 A huge thanks to Parhai Likhai for sending me this beautiful book. I loved reading it so much! Here's my review of the book (It has spoilers. Read it at your own risk): The shortest way to describe this novel would be to say that it is a study in madness and death, and the correlation that these two enjoy, in living beings. I say living beings because humans are not the only subject of this book. As its name, Raja Gidh - The King Buzzard, indicates, it is as much about the quest for the reasons of madness in birds as it is about humans. And the way Bano Qudsia juxtaposes the two together is simply amazing. In fact, she does not just limit it to a mere comparison, sometimes the characters themselves metamorephose into either the greedy buzzards waiting for its prey to die and present itself as its hearty meal, a...

So first of all, I want to thank the team of Parhai Likhai for being so kind and sending me this lovely book. The delivery was prompt and the book so nicely packaged that it just filled my heart with so much happiness! Also, the book itself was very nice quality and reading it was an experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. .. Here’s my review of the book: It is indeed one remarkable masterpiece of a book. Although reading it requires a little patience at the reader’s part as it can get a bit difficult at time. The excellence of this book, in my opinion, lies in how the author navigates through so many time periods, each significant in its own way, so effortlessly. Covering the time of the war of independence in 1857 to the post-partitipn Pakistan in 1947, the author makes his characters – or more precisely tge generations of those characters – inhabit and engage with the lives that they have been entrusted with and evolve as the time goes on. The best thing about Hussain’s wri...

The Story of Philosophy  by Will Durant I'm reading this book these days and enjoying it so very much. I try and read one chapter of it daily and usually talk about it on my Instagram page where I have joined a challenge called #betterreadschallenge from the 1st of January. In this challenge you have to basically update your followers about the books you read everyday whether you get to read a hundred or merely five pages a day. I think this is a really great challenge as it pushes me to do at least a little bit reading everyday.   So this book covers the lives and works of all the important Western philosophers. And it's simply fascinating to read about these great thinkers as real people with real, exciting lives. Most of the times we get to know about these intellectuals with reference to the work they have produced without thinking of them as real human being made of flesh and bones, having relationships and all. So The Story of Philosophy is very useful as it le...

It feels like a thousand years since I last posted here. I don't know why but I developed an inexplicable aversion to posting. It started feeling like a chore that I didn't want to do. And that's kind of sad because posting here is something that I used to feel really passionate about. But then it just got a little frightening all of a sudden and I gave up on it completely. I think one of the things that was stopping me from posting here was the fact that I wanted my blog to be absolutely perfect. I wanted it to be something I had envisioned it to be for such a long time. But having that mindset and running after perfection didn't do me any good. It just made me feel hopeless and unmotivated. But for the past few weeks I just can't stop thinking about it. I think I really strongly wish to write and that suppressing this need would only make me feel sad. I post on my Instagram page almost daily and get such a positive response from all of you lovely people, but post...