The World's a Wide Web now...

It’s a fascinating world out there on the world wide web. If you aren’t disciplined in your attitude towards life, you can be easily addicted and it will be no different than any other substance abuse.

The WWW takes into its internal depths, allowing you to search virtual avenues, explore and learn thereby creating a labyrinth which starts to slowly seep into your frame of mind, like any other knowledge source. So much so that at times you may want to simply DEL certain doings in your real life and woah!, you realize how false the virtual world really is!

Although it’s delicious secrets are laid open to us easily, it comes at a cost. If you can consciously avoid vulgarity in real life, the virtual world is always dishing it out to you, take it or not. One can escape to the jungle to beat the crudity of life, but the internet would be a wrong place to find solitude. It provides and then infests one with a restless mania for more….and one will always come out of it wanting.

Then you need to employ net nannies to protect your kids from the ever deranging smut offered via the net.

Hmm…Can’t live with it….Can’t live without!!

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The thing that hit me most about the book is the raw emotion of women and the brutalities that a man can impose. The trauma of everyday life amidst a strife torn Afghanistan alongwith mundane routines of skinning fish and cleaning beans, rearing children, experiencing nostalgic joys of a once beautiful land and learning to live with the present day trauma..very vivid yet disturbing.

All of us know the facts..its in the news and around us...yet its another land, another world....
Khaled Hosseni really touches upon those little trivia in everyday life which we hardly consider important, but must treat as blessings.

Lovely book..n if one has loved The Kite Runner...this one too is a gem...and leaves you entwined with the lives of Mariam n Laila long after the book is back on the shelf.