Did you ever think of your hobby of ‘reading’ and ‘learning’ as an act of the much talked about - ‘self-love’? It’s proven that reading is a therapeutic activity that leads to self-growth, whether its fiction, non-fiction, spiritual genre, newsletters, etc. Ideas that you read distract you from things that trouble you, providing you with better companions to overthink about.
This Valentine’s month, we dedicate this newsletter to the idea of ‘self-love through reading’. Because aren’t books the best companion one can have in both happiness and sadness?
BioScope - With Love
We will be screening a short film - Interior Cafe starring Naseeruddin Shah, directed by Adhiraj Bose.
A 12-minute short film about two long-lost lovers who meet by chance after 30 long years.
This will be screened as a part of our romance themed literature festival - With Love!
Register for the festival here - Join us
Festival
#With-Love
Experience a #romance themed lit fest to celebrate the little things that the emotion of love embraces. We bring you 3 days of themed evenings filled with poetry, storytelling, literature, music and fun games!
The festival is completely free, will be conducted online. Anyone from anywhere can join the fun!
#Conversation-Threads
Join these threads featuring amazing recommendations made by the community.
Books:
- A terrible beauty is born- by Pratheeksha
- Is it possible that two different world's collide and fall in love through music being the only string connecting them? - by Rachel
Articles:
- A Culture Trip to Cebu, PH on a Chinese New Year! - by Vinn
- The 'monetary value' of a tree - by Harshala
Read
Elizabeth writes an article on - 8 Books to Celebrate Self-Love this Valentine’s month
Celebrating the most crucial realization for a human this valentine's month - Self Love.
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Listen
For fans of comics and comic books, The Lonely Hearts Comic Romance Podcast features four guys (Siskoid, Furn, Marty, and Bass) sitting around and chatting about everything romance in comics. That includes romance comics and romances IN comics, but they also have a Romance Comics Theater segment in every episode where they act out a scene from a comic.
Watch
This is an uplifting talk with author, inspirational speaker and life coach Shannon Kaiser — where she shares the personal challenge she designed to explore the self-harming beliefs that were holding her back and learn how to take action, lighten up, and increase her self-confidence, self-acceptance, and accountability.
Shannon Kaiser is the best-selling author of three books about happiness including her new book, The Self-Love Experiment. She is the founder of playwiththeworld.com, award-winning self-help and personal development website. Her work has been recognized in media outlets across the globe such as HuffPost Live, Health Magazine, Australian Vogue, Women’s Health, Spirituality & Health and Entrepreneur magazine.
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