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At the Feet of Living Things (Book Review)

  🦜 In this book , the Nature Conservation Foundation's scientists and researchers describe their experiences with conservation in India. 🕊 They've been trekking through mountains, coral reefs, and forests since 1996, describing, documenting, protecting, and restoring species and ecosystems.  🦜 They have conducted research on primates, snow leopards, hornbills, elephants, dugongs, fish, and other animals.  🕊 They have encountered the sometimes harsh reality of living with nature's wild side in local communities.  🕊 They have also worked hard to bring children and citizens together to celebrate and learn about it. 🦜 Each deeply personal and reflective narrative in this book goes beyond the science to describe the challenges of conservation.  🕊 At the Feet of Living Things has something for everyone, whether you are a student, researcher, conservation practitioner, wildlife manager, nature enthusiast, or an interested citizen. 🦜 Have you guys ever won...

Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 Edited by Jayadeva Ranade (Book Review)

 ⚜ This book presents opinions on a wide range of intriguing subjects. The book's content is already heavily implied by its title. ⚜ The book contains 10 chapters. The former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale first discusses the major issues in the introduction section. Then ten individuals presented their expertise on various subjects related to the title. The top strategists and thinkers in India penned these chapters. ⚜ This book emphasizes the serious strategic issues that India is currently facing and will confront by the year 2030. ⚜ The information in this book is simply too good. The authors have done a good load of research to write  their analysis on the topics.  ⚜ Some of the themes covered in this book include: India-US Relations, Aerospace: From a Security Perspective, India-China Relations, Land, Sea, and Air Technology, Challenges of AI, etc. This book has been expertly edited, making it concise enough to maintain interest while also being elaborated enough t...

The Body By The Shore by Tabish Khair (Book Review)

  It's difficult to put it into a single genre! It is of Science Fiction, Crime Mystery and Thriller genres.  ⏳ The story is told through the eyes of three central characters: a retired Danish police officer, a young Caribbean housekeeper, and a former covert operations mercenary, each of whom approaches the novel's central mystery from a different perspective.  ⏳ Switching from one narrative thread to another cleverly builds up the information available to readers, but it also disguises and hides things, much like the swirling North Sea waters around the decrepit oil rig.  ⏳ The Body By The Shore has a Scandi-noir vibe (Scandi noir, is a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police point of view) thanks to Jens Erik's Danish location and sensibilities, while the science fiction aspect felt like a Black Mirror storyline, albeit one told in much greater depth than an hour-long tv show can achieve. ⏳ The author - Khair - has a lot to say about modern racism, ho...

After by Vivek Narayanan (Book Review)

🖋 Don't get confused between this and the famous After Wattpad book series. This is a poetry book written by Vivek Narayanan. 🖋 This book by Vivek mostly contains poems inspired by Valmiki's Ramayana. It just doesn't have that. It also has many poems full of incalculable emotions, pain, and many other feelings from historical events.  🖋 The language of the poems, the writing, the design, and the pages vividly illustrated are just amazing work. Yes, in a few of the poems it would be hard to understand what was happening if you didn't read the info about the type of the poems. The places, the things, the people, everyone here has a poem of their own. 🖋 This is definitely not for a beginner. You should read a few poetry books before going to this one. 🖋 In a work that warrants comparison with Christopher Logue’s and Alice Oswald’s reshapings of Homer and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, the author Narayanan allows the ancient voice of the poem to engage with modern...

The Magicians of Mazda by Ashwin Sanghi (Book Review)

 🪔 Why should history always suit the Victor's narrative? 🪔 Is burning books the same as killing people?  🍀 You never know what awaits on the other side of the door. I never knew this would be on this side of the door. I just couldn't think I'd love this book so much! So many lines, so many paragraphs, so many pages. I went through them again and again. 🍀 Blurb : Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor gets abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran, when he tries to free his wife from the kidnappers. The Ayatollah believes Jim is the key to uncovering the ancient relic known as the Athravan Star, and his men will do anything to possess it, even murder. 🍀 Why is everyone after this Athravan Star? Because they think it can save humanity from all the diseases. 🍀 From the ancient ruins of Persepolis to the Taliban camps of Afghanistan, from the womb of an Udvada fire temple to the icy mountains of Kashmir, from the dreadful coffin cells of Tehran to the deathly ...

It ends with us (Book Review)

 🌼 The story starts with Lily going on a terrace to get some fresh air, and after a while she finds a stranger on the terrace taking his anger out on a chair. They both were there because they had a miserable day.   🌼 In a matter of minutes, Lily goes from worrying the stranger on the roof could be a psycho to getting into his sexy (though not so sexy) pick-up lines.    🌼 They had just started talking, from introducing themselves to talking about what they were doing there. And in an instant, they are talking about things they hadn't talked about with anyone before. Then the stranger (Ryle) starts flirting with Lily.   🌼 “If you wouldn’t sleep with someone you just met,” His eyes meet mine again. “Exactly how far would you go?” She already said thanks, but no thanks. But Ryle doesn't stop there. He does some inappropriate things to a stranger, and the stranger, Lily, lets him do that.   🌼 Then starts the first love story of the book, that of Atlas and ...

Operation Haygreeva (Book Review)

 📍 This book has both action and suspense. Mumbai has been shaken by bomb blasts, and only C3 can protect the nation from impending threats. 📍 C3 is a division of the Intelligence Bureau and is in charge of the nation's counterterrorism operations.  📍 The chief of C3 is Ravi Kumar. He is renowned for using ingenious strategies to crack the toughest cases. He places more faith in fresh recruits than in the organization's seasoned veterans. 📍 He has been given the task of eliminating the threat presented by a new terrorist group called Lashker - e - Hind following the explosions in Mumbai.  📍 Three young, intelligent recruits named Mihir, Jose, and Cyrus are chosen by him for this mission. He makes them aware of the importance of the assignment and prepares them for it.  📍 This book discusses the agents' secret missions, keeps track of the Hawala market, explains how to cultivate contacts, and demonstrates how to walk carefully while defending Indian residents. ?...