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In The Name Of The Lord : A Nun's Tell-All(Book Review)

 📍 Have you ever imagined being a nun would stop you from eating mangoes from your own living convent? Well, this and many more such secrets are revealed in this book, In The Name Of The Lord. 📍 This is the story of a woman who turned towards a new society for herself because she wanted to live the life of a nun.  📍 In the name of the lord, the title of the book is very apt for this story. The author has described everything that occurs in the name of the Lord, in churches, to women, by powerful men. 📍 She has talked about the struggles she had faced living there because of everyone in power, not only men but women as well, who didn't have the same thoughts as her. She wanted to help every person in need, no matter who he or she was. She just wanted to be there for him/her. She helped many people in her life, no matter how many people stopped her on her way. 📍 The author has talked about the rapes that happened to the nuns working there. How they all struggled to fight f...

Sumitra And Anees : Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family (Book Review)

 📍 The author has tried very hard to make us understand that it needs to be okay to marry inter religion, I agreed on that part with her.  📍 She is telling us about it because she herself is the product of an inter-faith marriage.  📍 In the start the author blamed the government for a few things and some laws. Then she said that there should be more stories out there like Sumitra and Anees. But I later I saw that the author herself didn't tell much of a story of Sumitra and Anees. She told us the story like, they met, they became friends, they got married, they shifted to Anees's house. Then it was like Sumitra worked as a director for NIFT. She wrote a few books. Anees worked as a journalist and he wrote few books as well, one on Zakir Hussain, one on Bhopal gas tragedy.  📍 She many times said that it's become more dangerous than before, and then she was telling a story where his father Anees was bringing someone with him on a tonga and some hotheads stopped th...

90 Days (A book by Anirudhya Mitra)

  📍 This book is about the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India.  📍 The author has covered the story very well with a great point of view. The introduction, the plot, the narration, everything is so good about this book. The language used is lucid, easy enough to understand for everyone.  📍 I didn't have any knowledge on the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, so this book kinda gave me everything on it. It was hard to put down the book and do something else.  📍 The hard work of the SIT team is shown pretty well in the book. How they caught the assassins one by one, how they handled the pressure of everyone around, as this was a big case. How the assassins organized the crime and how they plotted it, how they tried dry runs for the same. It's all in the book.  📍 The mastermind of the crime was not so easy to find, but the SIT team did find him and all the others who helped him in the crime. However the mastermind was smart enough to...