There is channel called Epic. Sometimes I watch that channel. Programs are good. They try to describe events of epics/puranas in a better way considering the social condition of that time. It is not based on blind faith but a better rationalists approach to see things.

You can give a try.

Thank you Sarah for creating a new topic. However, I am not much help in this one. I have not read this book. I have watched the film only.And heard the sequel is also coming. We were just talking about film adaptation under another topic. You can provide your feed back on the film adaptation of this book. How would you rate the film against the…[Read more]

Thanks Peeush, the group will be more interesting if more people provides their inputs. Try to add your friends who loves book.

I understand your feelings when you love some books and the film adaptation distorts them. I have similar feelings when I watched one of my favourite book. Other friends who did not read that book liked the movie very…[Read more]

Hi Peeush, Thank you for bringing up this topic.

I agree with Sarah. Book is always better than screen adaptation.

However I would say there are several advantages of the adaptation also. Let me list down those, let me know your views on that.

1. The very first point I would like to mention is sometimes we can not exactly understand the…[Read more]

@ptrikha15 I admit you read lot of books. I read too but as I mentioned I read English novels very less. I mainly read Bengali books. It ‘s not because I do not like English literature, it is because I can enjoy more in my mother language and my reading pace  far better in Bengali.

So I am definitely not the person to compare one English writer…[Read more]

Christi, I would say this should be mandate for everybody. As the life style changing a lot and people have multiple partner before marriage. So at least tests should be done for sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS. Also, negative blood group is uncommon but it is still there. So Rh compatibility is required – it is bot about different race,…[Read more]

Exactly Deepak, and there are lot of diseases which can be prevented if you have clear knowledge about health issues of the bride and groom. As I mentioned in my Blog that Thalassaemia Carriers are not patient but if two carriers get married to each other then there will be high probability of their children to be a patient of Thalasseamia. In…[Read more]

Manju, this is very true. I feel the same for some other authors or film directors who tried to recreate their hit magic. Maximum time they fail while trying to recreate the previous magic. Don’t understand why they try to do so!

Arnold, I am currently reading a Auto-Biography of a Bengali writer Sunil Ganguli. The name of the book is “Ardhek Jeebon” means Half Life. The time frame starts from 1930’s. We got or independence in 1947. So that time period has been well described in this book. How they started literary movement post independence, how the partition effected us…[Read more]