Ritika Ruminates

Image source- Hotcourses Abroad Book piracy is one of the most important issues in the literary world now, along with plagiarism. Royalty from book sales isn't enough to pay the bills, even for the bestseller authors, and book piracy steals away their income even more. I have written about the issue of piracy in 2 of my earlier blog posts. To read those-  Free books apps and book PDFs: Disrespecting author's works How can we help the publishing industry Book borrowing etiquettes  (One additional blog, not related to piracy) By the way, I feel that book PDFs are at least honest about stealing the work, rather than physical pirated copies available in the market for purchase. If it is about piracy (which I do not support), it doesn't make sense to pay for a book to someone who pirates for a little less than the original. Why waste your money on a first or second copy then, if you will consume pirated copies of a book anyway?  Coming back to the point: Like any crime, t...

Image source: Popsugar This blogpost is going to be my interpretation of the character Tyler from Wednesday series, seeing it from his perspective. Even if you are team Xavier, do give it a read anyway (promise to try to not trick you to change your team). Picture of Hunter Doohan (Tyler) for this blogpost can quite be like a candy, attracting many girls (or even boys) to this blog post🤭. As most have already seen the series or have come across spoilers on Instagram anyway, I'm free to post spoilers here too. Or if you do not want spoilers, watch the series Wednesday on Netflix (not freeload it on Telegram!) and come back here soon after finishing the first season (ofcourse I would like the additional view😂😜).  I think Tyler, at some extent, represents all of us. We all have a negative or even monstrous side to our personality which could lay dormant for years or decades. But when something major happens (or compounding of small things until it reaches the boiling p...

Image source- The Fluent Life Being a daily Mumbai local train commuter, I see small kids travelling long distances in the early hours of the morning (5-6am) to go to school. This makes me wonder- Education and academics are very much needed, but at the cost of their childhood? Most of these kids board from central line stations like Kopar, Diva, Mumbra and Kalwa, areas that are not so developed in aspects of finance and infrastructure, and mostly lack quality and affordable schools. Government schools may not be as efficient either, which forces them to travel long distances from their homes to get their basic right fulfilled. Travelling to main Mumbai areas like Ghatkopar, Vidyavihar, Dadar, Masjid and even CSMT for schools, takes a lot of their daily time.  Once I saw a group of small kids, boarding from Diva station, planning to de-board at Majid for their school (their school bag had a logo of a school situated in Masjid). It almost takes around an hour in the local itself. Al...