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Reasons to Stay Alive

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Who better to write about depression than someone who has experienced it firsthand? In Reasons to Stay Alive , Matt Haig shares his deeply personal story of battling depression and anxiety, and how he slowly found his way out of it. The book begins at a harrowing moment — Matt standing on the edge of a cliff, contemplating suicide. But he turns back. That single act of stepping away becomes the start of a long journey toward healing. He lived with his girlfriend, Andrea, and had a supportive family — his parents and sister lived in another town. Yet even their love could not immediately pull him out of the darkness he was engulfed in. Matt explains how depression is often misunderstood and dismissed by others. While he tried medication, it offered only temporary relief. He describes how his suffering didn’t just impact him — it also deeply affected those around him. In one particularly moving moment, when his parents visited, he tried to act normal. But when his father gently squ...
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The Royal Game

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Imagine being confined to a single room for years, devoid of human interaction, with nothing but your thoughts to keep you company. How would you cope? Would you find an escape within your mind, or would the isolation consume you? Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game explores this very dilemma through the gripping tale of two contrasting chess players—one, a world champion with mechanical precision, and the other, a man who mastered chess as a means of survival. The story unfolds aboard a ship, where the author crosses paths with the world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic. An enigmatic and aloof figure, Czentovic is a man of few words, indifferent to the world beyond the 64 squares of a chessboard. Despite his unparalleled mastery of the game, he lacks academic intelligence and social grace. His reputation precedes him, and our author becomes increasingly curious to understand the mind of this prodigy. To initiate contact, the author and his companions engage in casual chess matches in C...
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Animal Farm

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Mr. Jones was the owner of the manor farm . His farm animals were not happy under him. One day, an old pig called Willingdon Beauty (who was addressed as an old major ) gathered all the animals on the farm for a discussion. He was respected a lot on the farm. So, all the animals obeyed him. The dogs, pigs, hens, pigeons, the horses Boxer and Clover, the white goat, the donkey Benjamin, and a white mare, Mollie, were the participants of the meeting. The old major addressed his fellows by claiming that the life of an animal is misery and slavery. It is not because the land of them is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it. It is because nearly all the produce of their work is stolen from them by human beings. He mentioned that man is the only enemy for them. If they could remove man from the scene, then the root cause of hunger and overwork would be abolished forever. He also added that man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does ...
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