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Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 9, 20212 min read
The profoundly psychological world of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
A psychological study of an individual rather than a large group of people, so that it’s more private and intimate. That is what makes...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 12, 20213 min read
On friendship: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca & Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
This article is about one of the most thoughtful and down-to-earth books I’ve ever read. It’s a non-fiction book of short essays. It’s...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 9, 20212 min read
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
I wasn’t sure how to begin writing this “book review.” This is hardly a book review. In many ways, The Makioka Sisters is a tale of how...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 9, 20212 min read
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
“The poetic practice requires solitude.” As far as writing goes, experience has taught me that there is no objective reality. That...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20211 min read
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
How suddenly this book became a teacher, a parent, a close friend, and a confidant. In it, I found solace and courage to manifest an idea...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
"Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel any pain anymore that you're in real trouble." Buy...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
William Faulkner understood The Catcher in the Rye as this, “His (Holden’s) tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race,...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
“Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?” To read Ernest Hemingway’s The Old...


Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 8, 20212 min read
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
There are people whose past events exist on a linear trail. Each moment is a stamp upon a smooth and unruffled surface. This makes...
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