'Only school boys will go on squeaking them on purpose...'

College Handbook 1966 | Glimpses

Well, the Open House of the great grand MCC Archives that was held on 9th June 2022 in Campus, had an amazing array of vintage treasure troves galore, for the avid archive buff! 

There was a huge display of rare documents and photographs, along with some of the rarest manuscripts connected with the College.

One particular College handbook - dating back to 56 years ago - of the year 1966 - caught our attention.

The book is titled –

RULES & NOTES FOR THE STUDENTS OF MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

Giving y’all some lovely excerpts from this College Handbook, 1966, compiled during the Principalship of Dr. Chandran D. S. Devanesen

Here goes -

You have now joined the Madras Christian College, a honourable and ancient school of learning, in which over 1680 students and 100 teachers live, converse and work together day by day.

Community life, on this scale, is quite a complicated affair, and it takes a special effort to ensure that your work and pleasure do not prevent someone else from working well or enjoying life. There have to be some common rules.

The notes in this booklet are to help you make the most of your time at the College, and to tell you how we do things here. The rules are the fruit of much experience. They are not for ever unalterable; members of staff will be ready to discuss with you how they may be improved. 

Meanwhile, please read them carefully and observe them as a matter of College loyalty.

Chandran D. S. Devanesen

Principal

IN COLLEGE

1. The College expects you to attend your classes regularly. If you are not in class, try not to disturb those who are, for instance by walking and talking in the corridors and verandahs. We keep the windows and doors open to let the air in; you will be very uncomfortable if we have to shut them to keep the noise out.

In each class you will be assigned your own seat. Keep it.

There are two bells for the first period of the day, and again after lunch. You should be in your place in class when the second bell rings. The bell I rung once at the end of each period, and a break of five minutes is usually allowed; that gives you plenty of time to get to your next class.

The College custom is to stand when your teacher enters the class, until he indicates that you may sit.

It is well known that the seats squeak during this operation, but only school boys will go on squeaking them on purpose. If you need to leave the room before the class is dismissed, ask permission.

You are not supposed to smoke in College or in and around Hall classrooms.

You are requested to walk on the paths and not on the grass and not to throw paper or other litter about or to deface walls and doors by scribbling.

Many questions of public interest await your attention; the country looks forward to your loyal and intelligent support, perhaps your leadership.

But while you are at college it expects you to study. The College may act to prevent you taking part in political movements which distract you from your present work.

NOTES FOR STUDENTS

No one has any right to be in College unless he is honestly trying to do his academic work well.

That means, you must apply yourself to your studies with some method; and not just to “mug up” enough to scrape through the next examination, but trying to get an intelligent understanding of each subject as a whole. 

A lazy, dull, or slovenly student (or teacher) is cheating the community.

Academic studies, however, are not the whole of life. Your studies themselves will be done better if you give a good deal of your time to games, debates, meetings, music, play-acting, hobbies, and conversation. These all help to make life better for yourself and for others too.

1. Try to play some OPEN-AIR GAME every day after classes are over. If you have not played much before, begin at once, it will be more difficult to start later on. Besides acquiring a new skill, you will be learning what it is to be “sporting”: playing for the side not for yourself; respecting your opponents, accepting the umpire’s decision even if you don’t agree with it.

Spectators can be sporting too, in particular by cheering the other side when you see good play.

At Meetings and Entertainments in the Anderson Hall, we should all be on our best behaviour, especially when we invite friends from outside. If you chat to your neighbour during the show, or move about too much, you may spoil the show for everyone.

When we have a distinguished visitor, be sure to take your place well before he arrives: stand when he enters the Hall; and afterwards wait in your place until the visitor’s party has left the Hall.

2. At STUDENTS MEETINGS and debates the business should be carried on with some dignity and order. No-one wants it all dull and solemn; on the other hand noise is a poor substitute for wit and humour - show that you do not approve of it.

If you decide not to put up with rowdiness, the rowdy fellows will not be able to take charge and spoil the show.

Chairmen, office-bearers and inexperienced debaters all deserve a quiet hearing, otherwise the sensible students will not come forward to take their part.

To be continued…

“Why do we as human beings have a tendency to cry especially when we listen to a good piece of music or read a good piece of text?”

‘Art is like an emotional slap!’

II MA English | by Ganesh Aadhitya S

It was a musical afternoon for all of us - II MA English kids!

Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda asks - “In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?" - highlighting the universality of the essential Human condition - i.e. Rain does not discriminate between people. The same can be said for Music as well. Good Music appeals directly to the emotions of the individuals indiscriminately. As with the best Literature, music speaks most urgently to the present and the overarching past.

Angela kickstarted the discussion by posing the intriguing question to the class, “Why do we as human beings have a tendency to cry especially when we listen to a good piece of music or read a good text?”

Curious Jean extends the question - “When we are happy, we listen to happy songs; and when we are sad, we listen to sad songs. I wanna know why?”

Speaking on the power music holds over our emotions, Angela made a striking statement - “Art is like an emotional slap”.

Music's mighty association with memory is undisputed. Memorable moments in one's life are often adorned with different tunes.

Allan Winston's blooming face when he linked music with the “special person” in his life stands testament to this fact. He named “Nee Kavithaigala” by Pradeep Kumar as his current favourite.

Anupriya had an equally interesting observation to make. She said, “When we are happy, the rhythm matters. But when Sadness overcomes, it's the lyrics that speak to our soul.”

Dr Rufus here draws a comparison between Tragedy and Comedy, throwing light on how Shakespeare chiefly used verse for Tragedy, and prose for his comedies. 

When Dr. Rufus asked her if it was the music or the lyrics that charmed her the most, Anu said, that it was a 50-50 blend. Citing from a lovely Hindi number, she said that, the song had that great appeal on her not only because of the lyrics but also because of the music!

According to Cathlin, It's the “music that appeals the most” compared to the lyrics.

Gayathri made a vital point - “Music is a kind of therapy that can transform lives. I often overcome my sadness by listening to energetic songs”.

Cathy asks what Gayathri does with the “leftover sadness?” (another amazing phrase!)

The ever-energetic Sunyogita brought in the highly emotional bonding scene between the mother and the little kid from the blockbuster film “KGF: Chapter 1”, where the background score helps us connect with the characters. She further emphasizes on the role music plays in the trending Netflix series “Stranger Things''. Korean Pop music is her Jam!

Abishek recounts how a song he listened to - “Appa Un Kaiya Pidichu” - took him down memory lane when he was setting up his room at Selaiyur Hall. He further read out a few lines to the class, showing how music is immune to time:

“அப்பா கையை புடிச்சி நடந்தா தெரு அழகாக‌ மாறும்

அவர் ஆசப்பட்டு கொஞ்சும் போது மீசமுடி கீறும்”

Malar then beautifully describes Crying as “an essential emotion” that highlights one's humaneness, because it helps us connect with our fellow human beings.

“Harris Jayaraj,” exclaims Haleem when talking about the powerful BGM and the “intensity” music creates that reverberates throughout our “being”.

Basilea then recollected with a nostalgic fondness about her Dad, quoting two lines from her favourite song. She was almost in tears when she recollected the lines, and added that, Abishek’s quote made her so emotional yet again, because of the impactful lines - 

“அப்பா கையை புடிச்சி நடந்தா தெரு அழகாக‌ மாறும்

அவர் ஆசப்பட்டு கொஞ்சும் போது மீசமுடி கீறும்”

[Trans: ‘When I hold my father’s hand while walking across the street, even the street suddenly becomes beautiful…’]

“We are not theorising Literature, but we are living literature,” observes Dr Rufus. In this regard, sir introduced two Romantic poets into the already stimulating mix of ideas - Wordsworth and Shelley.

“The music in my heart I bore,” says the mesmerized Wordsworth hearing the melancholic song of “The Solitary Reaper” that stayed with the poet “long after it was heard no more”.

Similarly, the melody-filled flight of the little Skylark fills P.B.Shelley's heart to the brim with unadulterated bliss that eludes Human Beings as “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

Pinky made an exciting observation about how music creates a happy mood for the photoshoots.

Bhavya shared her brave journey of overcoming Depression with enormous resolve and how music was a part of her lionhearted journey. She highlighted A.R. Rahman's moving “Oru Dheivam Thandha Poove” from the movie Kannathil Muthamittal (கன்னத்தில் முத்தமிட்டால்) as closest to her heart. Further, she encouraged people to empathise more to make the world a better place.

Adding to Bhavya's point, Rufus sir stresses the toughness of spirit essential to overcome obstacles in life. Just as how “Storms make the oak grow deeper roots,” we are all a work in progress on the path of becoming a “capable human being”. He illustrates this point with Lord Tennyson's “Home they brought their warriors dead”. The ‘summer tempest tears’ will ultimately help us gain mastery over complications.

Musicals fascinate the musician in Sankey. He personally defines it to be an “emotion-stealer”. He names Flute to be his first choice musical instrument.

Ganesh is obsessed with the peppy Malayalam song “Darshana,” which he associates with a particularly fond childhood memory. He would gladly credit the visual appeal of the proposal scene to the musicality of the groovy melody.

Franz Kafka, when asked about what a book does for the soul, says - “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Similarly, Allan feels that music aims to “unfreeze” us. Allan's Kafka-like statement of Music unfreezing and melting our “being” perfectly summed up the discussion.

Sruthi made yet another interesting observation – that, sometimes, even without being swayed by the charms of the music or the lyrics, we feel we get the goosebumps all over us. That’s another enigma, she said.

Finally, the enriching interactive session propelled by Angela boldly underlines that Music is an art form that deserves to be celebrated.

And, as literary beings, “music is the food of our love” and it will continue to play on majestically.

Teacher’s Note: Thank you dear Ganesh for these lovely, precise and amazing inputs – preserved for posterity! And thank you dear II MA kids for your spontaneous, lively and vibrant interactions. It was a real literary high for all of us in class today!

References

1. https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/06/06/kafka-on-books-and-reading/

'Change helps you embrace some of the most beautiful things in life that’s in store for you!'

The Butterfly as Teacher | Ruminations for Life ❤️

On Why Metamorphosis is Important for You

Well, this evening I had shared a 45-second video on my WhatsApp, of a beautiful butterfly that sits so soft and majestic on a bunch of lovely flowers [in the garden of our International Guest House, MCC].

I had captioned it thus –

‘Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly’.

[The quote is by Chuang Tzu, one of the most influential Chinese philosophers of ages past!]

So yes! Metamorphosis is not an event! It is a journey! It is a process!

Our famous literary delights from across the world bespeak to those adventurous journeys that celebrate the importance of metamorphosis in the traveller’s life!

The 1957 novel titled, On the Road by Jack Kerouac – the principal avatar of the ‘beats’, - documents his journey across the USA, resulting in a range of amazing, mind-blowing experiences for the two main characters - the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty – known for their carefree attitude and their sense of adventure!

Eat, Pray, Love (2006) by Elizabeth Gilbert, records ‘One woman's search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia’, even as its 32-year-old Elizabeth Gilbert experiences the world in her own unique ways - discovering pasta and pizza in Italy, finding spirituality in India and falling in love in Indonesia!

A range of reads with journeys as their prime motif, seek to celebrate the great transformations that happen in the protagonist’s life – thanks to their journeys, including the likes of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho!

On 19^th July 2022, one of my lovely cousins had sent me a video of a caterpillar - a caterpillar that she was so sincerely fending for!

She had named it Zing!

This particular caterpillar-stage video that she had sent me, made me wonder and ponder much on the metamorphosis that happens in like fashion in a human being’s life as well.

Right from birth, we as human beings undergo a beautiful metamorphosis, ain’t we?

In short - we evolve!

Although like Peter Pan, we might not always want to grow up, reality catches up with us in no time, and soon we have the Hobson’s choice staring right ahead of us – nudging us to embrace change!

Of course, change is always accompanied by a little bit of discomfort as well! A little bit of unease! A little bit of aches and sighs and groans!

But if we could - just for a moment - compare this ‘unease’ in metamorphosis or transformation, with the experience of flying in an airplane –

An airplane – when it is about to take off, it shakes! It wobbles! Our ears go thumping and twitching! We feel really really tingly and dizzy all the way!

But soon-o-soon, the airplane beautifully stabilizes itself up there in the skies and from then on, we really begin to enjoy the awesome, breath-taking scenery around us – among the clouds, on top of the seas, and rivers, and lakes, and forests!

But but but… wait… The airplane then has to come down, ain’t it?

And that’s when you hear the thud, the twitching, the thumping and the rocking yet again – until the landing happens, and from then on, there’s a great relief, and soon all is well!

That’s hence yet again the famous quote by Chuang Tzu, one of the most influential Chinese philosophers -

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a beautiful butterfly.

Today in my II MA English class, when we were having a lively discussion on a question by Ms Angela, [a report of the same has been promised by Ganesh, II MA English, by tomorrow – btw, Ganesh… hope you are reading this da 😉] one particular student shared from her lived-experiences, and I responded thus, quoting George Herbert -

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots!

How true!

Change helps you embrace some of the most beautiful things in life that’s in store for you! That’s so specially reserved and preserved for you! Only for you! Ketto! 

Memories of your past - caterpillar stage – are sure to remain as vestiges or as traces enlivening and elevating your spirits each passing day!

But remember, the move is on!

Well, and that’s because this ‘metamorphosis,’ is sure gonna be very rewarding for you – to transform you into the most beautiful, the most adorable and the most colourful butterfly that’s gonna be a great source of love, delight and happiness to the beautiful world out there!

Now tell me, dear reader!

Ain’t your metamorphosis really-truly good for you? 

[PS: This post is dedicated to my lovely-bubbly II MA English class kids, who made today’s class so memorable and meaningful for all of us, making all our eyes moist, big-time, in the process!] 

You may want to read a similar past read on our blog, titled, The Move is On, HERE.

The true-blue Nobility of an Incorrigible Literary Being! 🖋🥰

Bacon, Bronte & Cronin | the ‘BBC’s & their Pens ❤️

Pen is mightier than the sword, goes the dictum!

Yes! dear reader, most of us woulda sure known Bacon, Francis Bacon - as the Father of English Essays!

Aphoristic in style, and rhythmic in cadence, he had pioneered a writing style that continues to be the norm for essayists all over the world even today.

But most of us wouldn’t possibly have known Baconji - the novelist!

Indeed, his novel, The New Atlantis, of utopian import, envisions an ideal society [Bensalem], where the inhabitants are endowed with such lovely qualities as – generosity, enlightenment, dignity, splendour, piety, public spirit, etc.

A novel that has had the power and the verve, the vigour and the mettle to envision a brave new world - in North America – a land that abounds with liberty and freedom of religion, a land that practices greater rights for its women, a land that doesn’t have slavery, a land without debtors’ prisons, a land where there is a separation of church and state, a land that promotes freedom of expression etc.

No wonder, Francis Bacon’s thoughts and ideas have had a great influence in the drafting of the American Constitution.

Well, suchmuch is the case with Cronin, dear reader!

Come, join me on Cronin-mode on the legend’s birthday today!

A.J. Cronin, - physician turned writer, ladies and gentlemen!

Cronin’s Citadel (1937), gives us a first-hand account of the atrocious and arbitrary medical ethics of the medical doctors during his days.

Well, Dr. Cronin’s experience as a doctor practising amongst the coal mining communities in South Wales, had really helped him much-o-much in getting a first-hand account of the health problems faced by miners and their occupational health hazards, which was to have a powerful influence in his life later on.

Hence, when he was elevated as the Medical Inspector of Mines for Great Britain, he heavily drew on his experience as a doctor and penned them down on paper for posterity.

The Citadel is a case in point.

A novel that has played a pivotal and a powerful role in the establishment of the National Health Service [NHS] in Great Britain.

The NHS, prospectively, imposed a big ban on medical doctors from minting money from their patients, because the entire health care system was, from thence on, funded by the government, with the Department of Health and Social Care, overseeing the administration of the funding.

The NHS then, seeks to provide free healthcare to all legal residents of England!

In short, quality health care at almost no expense for the patient, became a possibility in Great Britain, just because of the visionary power of Cronin’s pen!

Suchmuch is the might of the pen! Mightier even than the sword!

Well, the novel deals with a doctor by name Andrew Manson, an idealistic, efficient and newly qualified doctor who takes up duty as an assistant doctor to Dr. Page, in quite unhygienic conditions all around him in a remote mining village.

Having resolved to improve the living conditions as well as the health conditions of his patients, who were chiefly miners, Dr. Manson researches much on his specialized area of lung disease.

Soon his research gets recognized and he gets elevated to the Mines Fatigue Board in London. But eventually he soon resigns and sets up private medical practice where his ‘business’ booms out of proportion!

The lure of easy money traps his conscience into a darky cage, and he is soon on a roll, wading into the wallets of his wealthy patients from thence on!

No spoilers for y’all, though!

However, me thought of giving such thought-stimulating quotes from the doctor’s pen for us all!

What power and might, dear reader, therein lies in these lines!

Says Doctor Andrew Manson –

We’re not nearly liberal enough. If we go on trying to make out that everything’s wrong outside the profession and everything is right within, it means the death of scientific progress.

We’ll just turn into a tight little trade protection society.

It’s high time we started putting our own house in order, and I don’t mean the superficial things either.

Go to the beginning, think of the hopelessly inadequate training doctors get.

When I qualified I was more of a menace to society than anything else.

All I knew was the names of a few diseases and the drugs I was supposed to give for them.

I couldn’t even lock a pair of midwifery forceps. Anything I know I’ve learned since then.

But how many doctors do learn anything beyond the ordinary rudiments they pick up in practice.

They haven’t got time, poor devils, they’re rushed off their feet. That’s where our whole organisation is rotten.

For years we’ve been bleating about the sweated conditions under which our nurses work, the wretched pittances we pay them. Well?

They’re still being sweated, still paid pittances.

That’s just an example. What I really mean is deeper than that.

We don’t give our pioneers a chance.

Dear reader, the above lines make us ponder much on some of the habituated actions that we’ve been accustomed to, the most part of our lives, ain’t they?

Most of what Cronin’s mouthpiece Dr. Andrew has said, was said from a deep sense of conviction and an equally stronger sense of being uncomfortable with the appalling situations around him!

Makes me to spontaneously ruminate on the lovely Jane’s beautifully chiselled power-lines in Jane Eyre.

And yes! For these Jane-lines that follow, I wish a hundred Nobel Prizes were given!

Says Jane -

The restlessness was in my nature…

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

This feeling – this exact feeling of being unsettled and unnerved at the stagnancy, the fetters, the restrictions, the red-tapisms, etc that one find around them, is the one great prompt and provocation for your pen!

The pen of an able and noble literary soul!

Over the course of your career, dear reader, have you ever come across such a feeling of being unsettled, rattled, shaken, jolted or unnerved at some of the apathetic situations prevailing in your workdom?

What pray, is your pen doing on this aspect, dear gentle reader?

If you feel that your lovely little heart is ‘inditing a good matter’ deep within you, and your ‘tongue is the pen of a ready writer’, start out rightaway!

There’s a Bacon, a Bronte or a Cronin waiting to come out of you, and shake the world, nay, transform the world - for the better!

That’s because the pen is mightier!

PS: If you check out to the right side of this, our blog, you’ll notice a space where I’ve listed out on the lovely blogs that I’ve so loved reading.

A Dazzling Style of the Stargirly types!

A Dashing Style of the Gilbertian types!

A Charming Style of the Baconian types!

An Impactful Style of the Bronte-ian types!

An Influential Style of the Cronian types! etc!

These cute and lovely literary souls have done such able and noble justice to their reading, to their thoughts, to their ideas, through their cute bloggy space out there on the web!

That’s because they have the conviction that the pen is mightier, dear reader!

To give a beautiful perspective to the world we dwell in, - through the power of their pen - from the books or people or things they’ve known, out of their own felt-experience!

An experience that’s transformative, liberative and therapeutic as well!

That’s something I call, the true-blue nobility of an incorrigible literary being!

And who pray, is that incorrigible literary being!?

You, me & we! 😊

PS: If you have a lovely blog, do send it across to me. Shall gladly link it to our blogspace on the web for the literary world out there!

‘To embrace the unending possibilities that life has to offer...'

Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert ❤️

To know oneself is the first step towards leading an authentic life, say the ancient philosophers.

Soren Kierkegaard, the most influential Danish philosopher of the 19th century is no exception towards vouching big to this credo. 

Says he -

‘The biggest danger is the danger of losing oneself in the world as quietly as if it were nothing’.

To Kierkegaard, there is within humans, the dualities of the finite and the infinite!

The ‘finite’ to him, is a limiting, constraining and conditioning factor that impedes and prevents human beings from attaining their fullest potential, whereas the infinite is the ‘expanding factor’ that moots, inspires and motivates infinite possibilities galore within the human!

Hence, ‘to lose oneself in the infinite’ would mean to live your little life on planet earth as though life presents to you a huge foray of unending possibilities of the vast expanse of the unexplored to be unearthed, and uncovered!

To such people as this, life is seen as something so unique, so dynamic and so vibrant, as a ‘series of endlesssssss experiments!’

Elizabeth Gilbert - best-selling author, [who’s celebrating her birthday today], and quite popular the world over for her 2006 memoir titled, Eat, Pray, Love believes with Kierkegaard and his ilk, in ‘losing oneself in the infinite’ to embrace the unending possibilities of the vast expanse of the unexplored to be unearthed and uncovered.

Well, how many of us woulda really had the guts to go out into the whole wi(l)de world, all alone, across countries, ‘to embrace the unending possibilities that life has to offer’ us?

Gilbert, Elizabeth Gilbert, has done that, and how!

Gilbert decides to travel across three different countries in pursuit of three different things –

Italy  for Pleasure,

India for Spirituality, and

Bali for Balance

which correlates with the title of the book – EAT, PRAY & LOVE!

Well, this is one unputdownable read, that requires a beautiful snuggling into a lovely, luxurious couch with Eat, Pray, Love on one hand and with cuppas and cuppas of coffee unplugged on the other!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, goes the adage!

True-proves to a tee for Gilbert, Elizabeth Gilbert and her book, Eat, Pray, Love

After going through a disheartening divorce, her life seemed shattered.

However, Gilbert was not one to be cowed down by life’s lemons!

She decided, she resolved, and she determined ‘to embrace the unending possibilities that life has to offer’.

That’s when she decides to set out on this freaky, wildy, stargirly adventure that’s gonna take her places and yes! Inspire all of the world for posterity!

‘To embrace the unending possibilities that life has to offer’, she had to take a resolve! A commitment!

A commitment to change!

And this change was not only therapeutic but also transformative for her in every sense of the word!

One thing that you’d love about the book, dear reader, is the fact that, her descriptions are so loveable, with such a reality of representation to them, that you spontaneously fall in love with the people, the places, and things that she offers on a delectable platter for us, her readers!

Without much ado, on a Monday morning as this, would love to give you a few lovely quotes that I’ve so loved reading from off the book!

Here goes –

“If you clear out all of that space in your mind you would have a door way.”

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”

“Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”

A beautiful way to begin our day, ain’t it!

So why wait?

Eat, Pray, Love as quick as you possible can!

With a smile on your face! 😊

Here’s wishing y’all happy reading dear reader!  

PS: For those of you desirous of watching the movie version of this lovely book, for heaven’s sake, please watch it on Netflix, but only after you are done reading with the book from top to finish! Agreed? 😊