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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...

Dare to learn : the power of an educated girl (Book Review)

 📍 This book contains 25 inspiring stories by young women from all over the world.  📍 These stories are the fights of these 25 young women to go to school, to get educated.  📍 As we all know women have always suffered so many things in their lives some of which are changing with time.  📍 Women get married as soon as they are of the age for the marriage, no matter they have completed their school, college or their dreams.  📍 These stories are of such women who fought with the society, who showed this world that with education the life can be much better for everyone.  📍 Every story is full of inspiring words, everyone has suffered somehow, but everyone dared to go to school, to college, to get educated, to make a good life, and to inspire others.  📍 These are the stories of hope, and this hope was their because they all had courage to go to school no matter what others said, no matter what other people thought of it back then.  📍 This book...

Destined to die by Varun Mathpal (Book Review)

 📍 This story starts with a scene at a police station. There is this person who is drenched with blood, telling his side of story to detective Katelyn.  📍 What he told at the police station was hard to believe but somehow Katelyn did believe his emotions, she was good at reading people so she could tell that he wasn't telling a lie. But how was this possible, what this man was telling her.  📍 He told her that he heard someone screaming, it was a girl's voice, he ran after the voice as hard as he could, but nothing could be seen, he told himself that he was imagining things as he was drunk. But as soon as he turned around, the mist was gone and everything was visible. He couldn't believe what he saw next. He saw 17 graves there, they were nameless. He couldn't feel anything good around himself. It felt like there was something evil.  📍 Then comes a new character in the story - Warren Parish. Warren and Katelyn had some history. They were kind of in love with each ...

The Wise Man Said (Book Review)

 📍 The story starts with an author remembering her editor's words to submit the next story soon.  📍 It has been six months and the author is still debating the submission of her manuscript as she hasn't written a single word.  📍 She has written three books already, which are inspiring for everyone, so that anyone who reads them can learn how to live happily. Yet she is not happy in her life. She has had success she needed years ago, she has fame, but still her story has not got the closure she needs. She is not happy in her life.  📍 Then she meets an old frail man with silver hair and long silver beard (seemed like Dumbledore from Harry Potter). The conversation between the author and this old man was very interesting to read. How he taught her few things without even doing anything.  📍 Before leaving the old man leaves a book for the author, titled as Wanderer.  📍 What's in this book the old man has left behind? Who was this old man? What did she lea...

Operation Dragonfire (Book Review)

 📍 How the author took the idea of this book and converted it into a brilliant fiction by adding many new angles, was so good to read.  📍 There is this battle at Galwan Valley which has shaken the nation to its root, while the nation is fighting the Wuhan virus, could there be anything else to put a worry on the nation.  📍 Yes, there is something which is also going to make a disaster in the nation. There is an Indian spy in Tibet, who has discovered a new secret weapon which has been developed by the Chinese.  📍 Meanwhile Indian forces were set to strike back at the Chinese army but now they have got to worry about this new secret weapon, of which they have no knowledge.  📍 Raw agent Sanjay Khanna comes in the play to bring the spy back to India, and when they return they get to realize that the secret weapon has already arrived in India. You all will be thinking about this weapon, what's its specialty, What's it called and many other questions, I can onl...