Ruchi Acharya's Blog

Holiday dinners in fiction are more than a meal—they’re emotional battlegrounds where family facades crumble and characters reveal their rawest selves. From the explosive truth-telling of Violet Weston in August: Osage County to the fragile nostalgia haunting the Lambert family in The Corrections, and the eerie intrusion of Cousin Charles in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, literary dinners transform dining rooms into cage matches.

Some movies don’t just entertain us—they move in, rearrange our inner world, and quietly stay for years. This essay is a love letter to four films that became emotional landmarks: The Sound of Music, Interstellar, Little Women, and Dead Poets Society. They shaped who I became, each teaching a different lesson about joy, love, ambition, and living deeply. This isn’t a review; it’s a memory map of the films that stitched themselves into my life.

Your moods deserve their own bookshelf. Some days you want a story that hugs you like a warm blanket; other days, you crave chaos, heartbreak, or a thrilling escape from reality. Books aren’t just stories — they’re emotional shapeshifters that grow and bend with every version of you. From heartstring-tugging classics to adrenaline-fueled fantasies, this list pairs your feelings with the perfect reads. Because sometimes, it’s not you choosing the book — it’s your mood flipping the pages.

Y ou know that comforting moment when you curl up in your favorite corner, a light blanket draped across your legs, and a cup of chai gently steaming beside you? That used to be my ideal escape. But somewhere along the way, I got pulled into the charm of audiobooks. I told myself it was practical and smart. I could listen while working, cooking, or even walking to the grocery store. It made me feel efficient, like I was conquering my endless reading list. Or so I believed. A few months later,...

Halloween Celebration - Spooky wishes! H alloween is approaching, the air carries the calling of the upcoming winter, and people all around the world are gathering their costumes for nights of magic and mischief. However, it is important to remember that, much like costumes or candy, Halloween has a larger meaning in our society than just as a celebration. It is a night we invite the monsters out from the shadows into our stories and dance with our loved ones. From vampires to witches to the...

Have you ever felt your guts being twisted after reading a story from the era of the Early American Romantic period? It happened to me...

Classic Victorian Gothic literature books Dracula and Frankenstein with iconic horror-themed covers. Gothic literature is like that old...

Picture an Indian marketplace with dust swirling in the background with words spoken with all the weight of a Shakespearean soliloquy. In...

So I did something kind of embarrassing last night. I was supposed to be working on my presentation for tomorrow's meeting, but instead I...

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost Poetry has always been the heartbeat of...