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Light and guileless: A trend that works!

Book Name: The Red House Mystery Book Author: A.A Milne Have you heard of Winnie the Pooh? Sure you have! You'd have seen him, at least, peering out of a hidey-hole in one of your storybooks, or referred to in a literary context. He's a rotund, ever-smiling, yellow bear, who usually wears a red shirt and blue shorts and doesn't bother to change. And if I've got the attire wrong, it's because it doesn't matter. That speaks for itself, doesn't it? Winnie-the-Pooh is a simple fellow. Who created this pally, enthusiastic, honey-loving bear? The chap's name is Alexander Alan Milne, commonly referred to as A.A. Milne. Not a frilly man himself, Milne has concocted several other lucid, easy characters who are lovable by virtue of their sheer honesty, if not anything else. An excellent storyteller, Milne's style of writing is light, simple and guileless. You aren't deceived- instead, you are handheld for as long as it's possible and then you can...

A Change for the Better

I’m thankful that I can walk up and down, Every other day, and know the world is not an impoverished place. Although I know that millions go hungry in pockets, I am not confronted by the stark vulgarity of it- I don’t grimace. My words do not resonate in a colosseum, Where I may be beheaded on account of political inaccuracy! We aren’t stranded in a once-bombed Cathedral, or Concentration camp, Where every next breath feels like ecstasy. But I don’t know what it really means to be thankful- To canter, while your heart is trotting, To paint from an imagination clouded by the gore of war, To be headlong, knee-deep in violence- but express the music of freedom in a jotting. Have I seen the change- the resurgence, Have I come to learn its true meaning? Have I been the merger of plight and placidity, Have I toiled every time my heart gave that wavering beat? I have not- not as yet; That ripple of an aberration has not yet abounded. Have I br...