Kolkata stars celebrate the joy of reading

I recently read Kafka’s for the fifth time now, as it gives me a different perspective of life each time. My current read is Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s , as I wanted to read something light-hearted after and I also love the way Sirshendu writes ghost stories. I am planning to read after this as I watched the film recently.

My top three recommendations have to be by Harper Lee, by Khaled Hosseini and by Yuval Noah Harari.While Harper Lee’s book explains racism from a child’s perspective and is a must read for all generations as it teaches us the importance of kindness, describes the lack of women rights under the Taliban regime. It beautifully narrates faith, love, loss, violence, fear and hope. The third book is an in-depth analysis of everything around us starting from agriculture, science, history to the evolution of humans.



Currently I am reading Rabindranath Tagore’s . I love revisiting this book, time and again. On the other hand, I just completed reading Utpal Kumar Basu’s and by Basudeb Dasgupta. I think both the books are brilliant and take you to a different world.

If I have to choose three out of a plethora of recommendations, they would be by Ramchandra Guha, by Albert Camus and by Jack Kerouac. While the first brilliantly narrates the post-independence era in India and the lives of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the second traces the journey of a French man Mersault who navigates life in isolation. has a completely different essence that highlights the joy of travel and freedom.