Not as ambitious as the cranes, the owls are nonetheless great thinkers. They will ask for additional readings, question the questions, demand intellectual challenges, soar over the mountain passes. Those who, dissatisfied with flying at average altitudes, aim to rise above everyone else, including their tutor. This excerpt is a part of the seminar description that Azur provides to his students and essentially explains to them that who they are (metaphor on birds) can determine what they will learn. As a note, here is an excerpt from the book that I hope you will read and be compelled to analyse yourself and think which kind of a student are you? Thus which kind of a student you wish to be? Just by reading, I feel I am a part of each one of his classes, I am forced to think of his queries and come up with candid answers, and just the way Peri stays up all night thinking of the simple yet profound questions of Azur, I do it too!Īs a counselor supporting students to go abroad to study, one request I make to them is to always take on unique classes, do something that you have never done before and this books fits in so beautifully with my advice.
The intensity in which the protagonist, Peri moves one from time period to another, one country to another, one personality to another draws you into a relationship with her so dark yet so inspiring.īut what to me is the magnificence of this book is the way a particular course named ‘GOD’ and the Professor to this course, Azur is described. Three Daughters of Eve sounds like an unassuming book on women for women till you start unfolding its pages.
And this one, I haven’t even finished it, and yet am compelled to pen down my thought for my students, parents and faculty as my share of Women’s Day:
I love Elif Shafak – sorry for sounding like a giggly school girl with an infatuation, but truly I don’t know how to put down her books.
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