Pustak-Going Curious And Bookish

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." ELON MUSK! NOT A NAME, AN ERA IN HIMSELF !!  On 31st May, 12:52 AM (IST) when half of the planet was sleeping,  SpaceX successfully launched into orbit its first human passengers: NASA astronauts  Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley  from space centre at Florida. As if he did it in silence of the darkest hour. The eccentric part is that the Indian media is quite busy in deliberating CIA, Rahul Gandhi and all.... When our media will refurbish?? Why ,such a big news, is not taken into consideration in Indian media? International media, channels were flooded with this epic achievement of SpaceX and Elon Musk. On 28 June, 1971, Mother Earth was blessed with an ingenious soul who further came to be known as Elon Musk. He is a man of his dreams. He is his own boss and master. He does what he wants to be done. He is the fellow who works day in and day out to find the life on the planet Mars as h...

                 “Kuch likh k so ,                    Kuch pdhke so ,                    Tu Jis jagah jaga savere ,                    Us jagah se bdhke so !”                               ~Bhavani Prasad mishra             In this modern world, when our cell phones are flooded with games and social media apps like Facebook, Instagram ,Twitter, WhatsApp, and the list is never ending. Technology has crept in every walk of our life. The thing which is lacking behind, the thing which is going far from us is our READING HABIT  !!!               In such scenario thanks to you for reading this part of mine. Gone are the days when kids used to list...

The Alchemist , one of the most famous works of Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist  is the novel which I have just completed reading. Rather I can say I came out of the wonderful world of THE ALCHEMIST. I rarely choose such novels to read. First I read about the author in the newspaper. Second someone suggests me to read it at the same time. Thus I come up with these reasons behind reading this book . What would be your ones, if they are? Moreover, this was my first novel that I read other than romantic fictions.            Mason Cooley said," Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."This statement is well justified reading this part of literature when we are stuck in this mid covid world.            I know many of you are still thinking what is the meaning of the word Alchemist. Some of you might have Googled it. Alchemist is the one who studies Alchemy that is the chemic...