Hitched : Book Review

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Amreekan Desi : Book Review

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Atulya Mahajan’s debut novel Amreekan desi is about two Indian boys with the similar dream of making a livelihood in America. With many stereotypes, the story relates how these Indian students get together in the US whilst they are searching for their so-called-American Dream. Akhil Arora and Jaspreet Singh are the protagonists of this novel. They become friends in this foreign land.

Through the window : Book Review

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Julian Barnes, in this essay collection describes the reader about writers who inspired him. This is very remarkable for to read author’s thoughts on Penelope Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Kipling, Madame Bovary, Ford Madox Ford and George Orwell and those who were instrumental in influencing him. 

Big Girl : Book Review

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This is a sensitive and an insightful  novel by Danielle Steel. The author rejoices the qualities of so called unconventional beauty while exploring intense issues of weight, body image, fat phobia, self-image, sisterhood, and family. This books premise is very realistic. It talks about the unconventional beauty and body image. The society thinks fat is stigma. Whereas it is not as what the so called slim people think. 

The Revenge of Geography : Book Review

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Behind the book

The Revenge of Geography, Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history of the world’s hot spots by examining their climates, topographies, and proximities to other embattled lands. 

Happy Birthday and Other Stories : Book Review

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Behind the book

A dedicated friend undertakes one last labour of love for a childless woman. Nadia - married into money - finds herself facing uncomfortable truths about her comfortably numb marriage. A Mumbai slum-girl dreams of speaking words valuable enough to be translated into English. An American tourist seeking nirvana sets off a sudden chain of events when his bag is stolen, and destiny plays her hand. A retired civil servant of modest means struggles to support his snooty foreign-returned daughter.

Meghna Pant’s knife - sharp stories are compelling, emotionally intelligent and provide a rare glimpse into the strange workings of the human heart. They evade neat categorization and are the perfect read for all curious spirits.

Dhandha, How Gujaratis Do Business : Book Review

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Dhandha: How Gujaratis do business is a non-fiction book authored by Shobha Bondre. The book is translated by Shalaka Walimbe. It’s a book that flaunts the achievements of five Gujaratis. Each chapter is written by the successful entrepreneurs – Bhimjibhai Patel one of the country’s biggest diamond merchants and co-founder of the ‘Diamond Nagar’ in Surat. MohanBhai Patel, who served as Sheriff of Mumbai before becoming the leading manufacturer of aluminium collapsible tubes and owner of SUPA farms in Maharasthra. Hersha and Hasu Shah, owners of over a hundred hotels in the US. Jayadev Patel, who has found fame with having sold policies worth $2.5 billion as the New York Life Insurance agent. And, Dalpath Bhai Patel, the mayor of Mansfield County who was a motelier before.

Foreign, A Novel : Book Review

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Foreign, a novel by Sonora Jha, is an absolutely spellbinding book. It’s a novel which is written in third person point of view and may be this is the eminent fact that has gripped in me so much that I cannot let go off it.