Kirthi Jayakumar
Goodreads Author
Born
in Bangalore
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
7144995
Member Since
November 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/kirthijayakumar
![]() |
The Doodler of Dimashq
|
|
![]() |
The Dove's Lament
3 editions
—
published
2015
—
|
|
![]() |
Stories of Hope
—
published
2013
|
|
![]() |
Game Changers: Untold Stories Of Indian Feminists From The Past And The Present
|
|
![]() |
Public International Law
—
published
2014
|
|
![]() |
Essays on Gender in Peace and Conflict
3 editions
—
published
2014
—
|
|
![]() |
Around the World in 50 Voices (1)
by
—
published
2015
|
|
![]() |
Redefining UN Peacekeeping-Law and Revival of the Trusteeship Council
|
|
![]() |
Essais sur le genre dans la paix et les conflits
|
|
![]() |
Saggi sul genere nella pace e nei conflitti
|
|
Kirthi’s Recent Updates
Kirthi Jayakumar
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
Kirthi Jayakumar
rated a book it was ok
|
|
“Death to the attacker was a yardstick of success, to the media person and the government, was a mere statistic. But to her, and countless other people, death had a name, a face and a story, and a countless number of emotions. And to each, theirs was the most painful.”
― Stories of Hope
― Stories of Hope
Topics Mentioning This Author
topics | posts | views | last activity | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Around the Year i...: Nadia's 2019 Plan | 4 | 48 | May 19, 2019 07:51PM |
“Days rolled into weeks, weeks into months. Our realities were one. We tried, though. We tried to brave it through. Why, I don’t know. We had the power to release ourselves from the shackles that held us, but we didn’t. Were we there for each other, so we didn’t leave one to fend for itself alone? Or were we there because we were just there? I don’t know.”
― Stories of Hope
― Stories of Hope
“But those moments I spent with her on the terrace... I will never forget them. We played like little girls. We saw colours come vividly to life before us. We joked. We laughed. We were us. In those moments when we threw mugfulls of water into the open space, I saw that we were two faces to one soul. She, bucolic. I, urban. She, conventional. I, modern. She, her. I, me. Sisters, the members of a sorority of pain. But the problems were one, real, single.”
― Stories of Hope
― Stories of Hope
“When hope crashes, almost immediately, a future smashes into smithereens- into a thousand broken mirror pieces, while you're left with your pallid, hopeless eyes staring back at you. You hear no sound as the tiny splinters fall into the soulless depths of despair. Somewhere so deep, a chasm akin to a black-hole, that nothing that goes in can ever be brought back. Not even your dreams. Or hopes.”
― Stories of Hope
― Stories of Hope
“If it was in Grief, it was philosophy, if in joy, it was madness. Just the way a philandering flame could be for warmth, or for arson. My hands clutch my stomach, as wave after wave kicked my feet.”
― Stories of Hope
― Stories of Hope
“She felt no pain, the men in surgical scrubs said, but how could they know?
Did they realize that another heart bled as she fought for life?
Did they realize the invisible cord that connected her to me, was still firmly in place despite the only physical one being cut up?
Or did they see those dreams as she did- those years of school, college, fun, happiness and childlike love that would never happen, ever, between them?
Did they know, I wanted to call her Hope?”
― Stories of Hope
Did they realize that another heart bled as she fought for life?
Did they realize the invisible cord that connected her to me, was still firmly in place despite the only physical one being cut up?
Or did they see those dreams as she did- those years of school, college, fun, happiness and childlike love that would never happen, ever, between them?
Did they know, I wanted to call her Hope?”
― Stories of Hope

This is a discussion group to discuss author Jean Sasson's two new projects, the film "Jean Sasson and The Good Monk" that Jean is writing and produci ...more

Track your progress on the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and encourage each other to meet reading goals. **Get started here** **Join our monthly ...more

This group is for people who want to be challenged to read 50 books in one year. Start the challenge by creating a post with the title of your chall ...more

Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more