Magic Moments

I have always had a liking towards tales with themes of partings and meetings. So this story did hit home almost instantly. And when the author is Aniesha Brahma, I don't really have to think twice before picking it up. Diya is deep, complex, and a complicated mess. She believes everything in her life comes with an expiry date. She builds more walls around her than bridges. She lets no one in on anything that's important to her, or that she holds close to her heart. Yet the one person who has been through that barrier, Nina- Diya's best friend, calls her that once-in-a-lifetime friend - whom you should never let go of however many times she shuts the door on your face to shoo you off. She may seem selfish and careless but beyond that fake calm exterior is a weak vulnerable person.  I l oved Diya. I could easily connect with her, being the almost philophobic person that I am. Ashwin is caring and loving. He tries his best to understand Diya, when she cuts off all...

Watching ‘The Imitation Game’ starring Bennedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, a mathematician and computer scientist, was a phenomenal experience. I really enjoy stories on secret missions and conspiracy theories. This one’s is on a true story- a declassified government secret that helped the Allied Nations defeat Germany in the World War II. During the Second World War, Alan Turing and a few others were chosen from the whole country of Britain, to work on deciphering encrypted German messages from the radio signals. The Germans used a machine called Enigma to send their secret signals to the U boats in war. To a person not familiar with the everyday changing settings of the machine, the signals sounded gibberish. It was considered almost unbreakable, and this team at Britain’s code breaking centre at Bletchley Park labored every day to work through each of its millions of possible settings and decode at least one message. Alan Turing was the first to think of, design, and...