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Shades Of Lavender

Read and devour books like your life depends on it.

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    • Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey on Advertising by Piyush Pandey
    • All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O’Leary
    • Will You Remember Me? by Amanda Prowse
    • A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
    • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
    • The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India by S. Y. Quraishi
    • A Sea of Glass Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk by C. Drew Harvell
    • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
    • Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NG
    • When the Wildflowers Bloom by Rupa Bhullar
    • Murder At The Mushaira by Raza Mir
    • The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
    • Right Under Your Nose by R Giridharan
    • The Sixth Finger by Malayatoor Ramakrishnan (translated by Prema Jayakumar)
    • Pandemic (The Extinction Files #1) by A.G. Riddle
    • Why She Buys: The New Strategy for Reaching the World’s Most Powerful Consumers by Bridget Brennan
    • The Secret Life of Debbie G. by Vibha Batra; Illustrated by Kalyani Ganapathy
    • How To Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
    • The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    • Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History by Ira Mukhoty
    • Skin Deep by Ajay Monga
    • The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu
    • The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep by Juliet Butler
    • The Poison of Love by K. R. Meera
    • Love in the Time of Affluenza byShunali Khullar Shroff
    • Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen
    • Girl in the Mirror by Cecelia Ahern
    • A Slice of Calicut Halwa by Dr K N Raghavan
    • The Farm by Joanne Ramos
    • Give Your Heart A Break by Anuj Tiwari
    • When India Votes – The Dynamics of Successful Election Campaigning by Jaishri Jethwaney & Samir Kapur
    • Politics of Jugaad – The Coalition Handbook by Saba Naqvi
    • Tune For The Dead by Debashish Irengbam & Anshul Vijayvargiya
    • Harley Quinn : Mad Love by Paul Din & Pat Cadigan
    • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
    • The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Translated by Mattias Ripa)
    • Summer Holidays by Koral Dasgupta
    • To The Lions by Holly Watt
    • Gently Falls The Bakula by Sudha Murty
    • The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
    • How To Get Published In India by Meghna Pant
    • The Mad, Mad World of Elections by Sudhir Dar & Debkumar Mitra
    • The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
    • Festival Stories : Through The Year by Rachna Chhabria
    • Myth = Mithya – Decoding Hindu Mythology by Devdutt Pattanaik
    • The Code by Mukta Mahajani
    • Draupadi – The Tale of an Empress by Saiswaroopa Iyer
    • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
    • Animal Farm by George Orwell
    • Delhi Calm by Vishwajyoti Ghosh
    • Sometimes It Happens by Karan Sharma
    • Seduction By Truth by Mukul Kumar
    • Dark Blossom by Neel Mullick
    • Shambuka Rama : Three Tales Retold by Mukunda Rao
    • Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz
    • Ramayana versus Mahabharata – My Playful Comparison by Devdutt Pattanaik
    • Roar by Cecelia Ahern
    • The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
    • Fortune’s Soldier by Alex Rutherford
    • To Obama With Love, Joy, Hate and Despair by Jeanne Marie Laskas
    • One by Sarah Crossan
    • Yoddha : The Dynasty of Samudragupta by Rajat Pillai
    • Charles Sobhraj : Inside the Heart of the Bikini Killer by Raamesh Koirala
    • Until Love Sets Us Apart ; To Love with Love by Aditya Nighhot
    • Awaken The Durga Within – From Glum to Glam, Caged to Carefree by Usha Narayanan
    • The Explorer by Katherine Rundell
    • Mahashweta by Sudha Murty
    • Mrs Funnybones by Twinkle Khanna
    • Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
    • The Marble Collector by Cecelia Ahern
  • Product Reviews
    • Anour Treat Yourself Green Tea Slush Body Scrub
    • Blossom Kochhar Aroma Magic Mineral Glow Scrub
    • Bath and Body Works Aromatherapy Smoothing Body Scrub
  • Articles
    • Elitism – How Intellectual Snobbishness is Plaguing Readers
    • Why It Is Okay To Not Read
    • My Experience – Listening To Audio Books
    • Bursting The Bubble On Bubble Wrap
    • Why Should Women’s Day Be Celebrated?
    • Food for Thought – Our Funny Brain
    • Let the Sun Shine!
    • Go Girl…Go!
    • Glow-in-the-Dark
    • All That Glitters…
    • Keep Calm and Drink Coffee
    • I Vote for Gender Equality
  • Stories
    • A Tryst with a Stranger
    • The War of Love
    • All In The Name Of Love…
    • Flash Fiction Challenge
      • Day 1 – An impulse buy leading to intergalactic warfare
      • Day 2 – Smoke hung so thick in the library’s rafters that she could read words in it
      • Day 3 – The language of flowers, pyjamas, a secret passageway
    • The Invisible String
    • Electriqué
    • Untold…
    • A Friend in Need…
  • Poems
    • The Waning Moon
    • The Eternal Interim
    • The Shower of Ecstasy
    • Forbidden Nights
    • Fade Away…
  • Prose
    • You
    • Lightning
    • Mould
    • Moon
  • Art
    • The Bird Family
    • Dragonfly
    • Lord Ganesh
    • Tranquility
    • Ballerina
    • Birds
    • Night Sky
    • Powerpuff Girls
    • Lord Buddha
    • Music Is Life
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Flash Fiction Challenge

Day 1 – An impulse buy leading to intergalactic warfare

Day 2 – Smoke hung so thick in the library’s rafters that she could read words in it

Day 3 – The language of flowers, pyjamas, a secret passageway

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