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Book Review – It Must Have Been Love by Jigar Prajapati

This book comes as a refreshing love story which is simple yet profound. It serves you with the potpourri of love, humor, remorse, guilt, and perspectives. The plot and writing is simple yet the feeling it invokes as you read makes you wonder about the long lasting effect of love. How the love can be deadly or magical in one’s life! Since everyone wishes to have love in his/her life but at what…

Book Review – The Different Bride by Charu Singh

Going against the mainstream, this book aptly justifies its title as well as its theme. The term “different” is not solely applicable to the title but to the plot, characters and storyline.  Apart from being different in all aspects the central theme which dominates the whole novel is of love. The idea of love as a unifying force is what makes this novel unputdownable and lovely.  The story…

It is a story of destiny and fate. It revolves around two characters – Kabir and Anamika, who meet, fall in love but are kept apart.  The best thing about the book is that there is first person narrative and the pace is fast. You do not get bored in-between. The way of story telling is absolutely amazing as it keeps the reader on the edge everytime so that we stay engrossed.  The storyline is…

As the title suggests, Death Served Cold is a collection of stories of cold-bloodied murders based on true incidents. These murders are all-the-more shocking because of the fact that these involve women.  A woman, as we know, is always considered to be loving, caring and kind. Therefore, it becomes hard to imagine that a life-giving creature can also be a life-taking one. And this happens…

This book makes you believe in the power of true love. If you like a good romantic story against an odd background, then this is the book for you.  The story revolves around Nooshafarin ( Noosh ) & Kabir. So,the Noosh was from Herat, Afganistan & Kabir was from Bombay ( Mumbai ), India. The two of them meet during college days in Moscow, Russia. Noosh is a Persian Girl who decides to go back to…

Romance, as a genre/concept, is always special to each individual’s heart. And there is no denying that destiny has a major role in bringing two souls together. Without us being ever aware, the universe conspires secretly and make us stand face to face with our destined partners is what keeps the unpredictability of life alive.  This beautiful novel is a tale of two individuals who meet…

Health has become the top most priority these days. Due to COVID-19, people have realised the importance of maintaining good health and keeping their immunity system strong. Especially, due to lockdowns and curfew, physical inactivity has increased as we are caged in our respective homes to curb the pandemic. Hence, this book plays a vital role in educating us on how to keep ourselves fit in such…

Book Review – The Panipuri Crimes by S B Akshobhya

Before talking about the plot or anything I would love to draw your attention towards the title – I mean how creative! It’s like clubbing your two favourites in one name. Clever, right?! Now, coming to the plot – we have our protagonist, Sagar, who loves to devour panipuris. The book is all about his dream to bring all the pani puri vendors on a digital platform to sell their pani puris. But as…

This book talks about how Modi again won in 2019 elections after his mammoth victory in 2014 elections. The author gives a somewhat factual account of things which led to Modi’s win along with doing a comparative analysis between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. The book gives an insight into political activities from which one can learn a lot about the functionings of politics. The book…

Wizardry has always fascinated me and it had been long since I read any such book. Thus this book – The Good Wizard by Prasun Roy – was very helpful in satiating my hunger for a magical escape. The language is pretty simple and can be comprehended easily. The story of this book revolves around Badshah Bisht. He is a famous wizard, and the only person who can perform the dangerous “Dance of the…

Book Review – The Promises We Made by Rohan Jain

So, I have began my new year by reading this romantic novella by author, Rohan Jain. It is a classic romantic tale of two people who fall in love in the most unexpected circumstances in every way possible. They are faced with the ultimate question of how to confess their love for each other. Raj (Indian) and Sophia (German) are two students who meet in a foreign country with different cultural…

ANAlYSIS OF THE POEM – “THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK” BY T.S.ELIOT

  T.S. Eliot was a British essayist, playwright, and literary critic of the twentieth century. His poetry includes the thematic thrust of fate of selfhood in time, loss of self and threats to selfhood. The poem – The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock – is about the central character Prufrock who is a middle aged balding man. He, due to his indecisive nature, fails to profess his love to his…

The reading of this novel ended with me bawling my eyes out and itching to read it again, thinking maybe there is an alternate ending. Alas this was to no avail and I had to accept the fact that it was what it was. The writer Jojo Moyes forces her readers to believe in all the situations that she creates in this amazing book and makes them reach the point where they find it hard to read, given…

Book Review – Home by Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur is perhaps one of those few writers in modern India, whose stories can convey and express, some of the most complicated human emotions in a beautiful simplistic prose. Home is another one of Manju Kapur’s masterpieces, others being – Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, etc. In what has become characteristic Manju Kapur style, Homeis a tale which weaves an enchanting tale of…

Imagine someone you love dearly. Now imagine that this person is sick and dying, and the life he lives is too painful to be worth it. So much so that you know for a fact that this person, if he was well enough to say it, would beg for death himself. Now if you had the choice to grant this…….would you do it? Would you be able to let him die or would you not? And would you be more selfish if you…