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]

@IchchheMrityu  I am now relishing this forum very much. So much that I can’t resist coming back here, discussing, commenting and may be starting newer discussions in near future!  🙂
Yes, adaptations can be great if we want viwers in say English to see a great work written in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, or even Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German, F…[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]

Well, I do have links and I share on twitter.

@tarasquirrel yes books can have more details. Movies have to cut out some part or shorten it. Exceptions can be in shorter length stories. In cases like “3 idiots” – an adaptation of “Five Point someone” by Chetan Bhagat, the movie was almost as good as the novel, and in some places better.
But of course, it also depends on the script writer,…[Read more]

I think planning for emergencies is a good way to handle stress. Knowing problems are going to occur makes you think that you are much ahead of your problems. And this means you can proactively take the choices. I think we can be prepared in terms of financial and the family side too. Many people focus on the small issues and then plan for them.…[Read more]

You are absolutely right. Thus one could become unhappy.

Yes, this information is quite useful.

@Mahesh

Thanks for the input which you have provided. Today an interesting thing happened which I would like to share with you when it comes to sharing ones experiences. I have a student who is having exams and does not score good marks in that subject. But after practice here the student is able to give all the answers to the questions. This…[Read more]

@Mahesh

Very true. I have seen many people comparing themselves and their situation with that of their peers or people around them and they make themselves feel worthless as they are not having some object or thing the others are having. Like I have seen children from well to do families who compare their dresses with the ones which some one has…[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]

You gave a very good analogy of shifting gears. I think often we assume all days in life are going to be the same. But that is just not the case. It just makes you go into the flow when you know what is happening. I’d be unsure how to motivate myself during bad days. But the analogy of shifting gears definitely helped me get back on the zone I…[Read more]