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Of This & That
By: Iffat Rashed

I was visiting my elder daughter last summer, and was intrigued to see her totally immersed in the novel “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyers. As I too was looking for some reading material in her bookshelf, she suggested that I read “Twilight” after her. I looked at her askance, because I thought I was beyond the age of enjoying a novel about teenage love and, that too revolving around a human, a vampire and a werewolf! When I was much younger, tales of the vampire Count Dracula held a chilling and frightening fascination; the image of sharp teeth, bloodshot red eyes, a black engulfing cloak, the surrounding eerie darkness of the night, when the vampire would rise from the coffin to venture forth, Continue