Ani’s Corner

The first novel The Vegetarian  ​ “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang is a dark and deeply unsettling South Korean literary novel divided into three parts, each narrated by a different character surrounding a woman named Yeong-hye, who one day after a haunting dream decides to stop eating meat entirely. But the novel is far from being about food. It is a quiet, poetic exploration of a woman’s radical act of resistance against a suffocating society, where her body becomes the only territory she can claim as her own. As she withdraws further from the world, she develops an obsession with becoming a plant shedding her humanity entirely. What makes the novel especially chilling is not Yeong-hye herself, but the people around her her cold indifferent husband, her obsessive brother-in-law, and her devoted but helpless sister each responding to her transformation with confusion, rage, desire or grief rather than any real understanding. Written with restrained, almost clinical beauty, it lingers ...

​This is the 3rd month of the year, and my March reading list is a collection of India’s 2 most powerful women in history: the Mahabharata’s Draupadi and the Ramayana’s Sita. The forest of enhancement;  This book solely focuses on Ma Sita her perspective on life from her birth til she enters earth as she rejoins Bhoomi ma. It's a must-read to understand Ma Sita’s life. The Palace of Illusion  This book is solely based on Ma Drupadi. Her birth and experience from the vanavas of Pandavas, Everything about this book is marvellous. These two  books are by the same author called Chitra Banerjee The other 2 books for this month are Yellow Face by Rebecca F. Kuang. In my opinion, this book basically says that being average is never a good option. The writer suffered in the beginning because her book wasn't getting published to any great extent and the sales weren't even good compared to those of her successful friend. This is a must-read for psychology-interested people. Well, t...