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  📍 The Forty Rules of Love contains two intertwined stories: Sweet Blasphemy, which narrates the relationship between Rumi and Shams as written by Aziz Z. Zahara, a self-proclaimed Sufism follower, and Ella's story, a reader who has taken the job of reading the book, and making a report on it, that is Sweet Blasphemy. As soon as she starts reading the book she feels that the author has written this seeing her situation. Ella is married to David. She is soon going to turn forty, has three kids.  📍 The book emphasizes Sufism's importance in understanding different perspectives, and the narrative shifts from the main characters to other individuals such as beggars, innkeepers, novices, prostitutes, guards, Rumi's family, and others. 📍 Although The Forty Rules of Love focuses on the importance of loving God, some of the rules felt forced into the plot. 📍 First I'd like to point out things I didn't like in the book:-  1. I couldn't believe Kimya would think lik...

  Do you think we can have a world without war? 📍 Well in this book, the author has shown a world without war. This is a world running sideways to our world. Do you want to know, what does the term sideways mean here? Then do read the book. 📍 When two school kids Willa and Manny hear about a mysterious animal wandering in their town, they get determined to find it and prove that the animal is real.  📍 Following this particular animal into a cave one full moon, the kids get swept into an alternative world. This world is free from pollution, here there is no war.  📍 When they return from this new world, they try to tell their family about it. Obviously no one believes them. In their world there is a war waiting to happen, how can they believe that there is a world where there is no war, where they have no issue of pollution, where there is no issue of clean energy.  📍 What will Willa and Manny do now? Can they stop this upcoming war? Would anyone believe their sto...

  📍 Cloud Cuckoo Land shifts between Five characters—Konstance, Zeno, Seymour, Anna, and Omeir.  📍 Konstance, who has spent her entire life on a spaceship named The Argos, encounters some difficulties many years in the future.  📍 Zeno and Seymour, who are from Idaho, are struggling with life's losses in the present.  📍 In the year 1400, Anna and Omeir are engaged in combat in Constantinople. 📍 This book is undoubtedly fascinating. This book is a jumbled mess throughout, especially at first. Non-linear timeframes and five different individuals are alternated in Cloud Cuckoo Land. 📍 After reading about a character's life up to that point, the story may then transfer to another character's life at the beginning of a new era. I'm not unfamiliar with multiple points of view, but usually there are no more than three. There are 5 different people in this book. And then add fluctuating timelines on top of that. If I had been the editor, I would have organised the book ...

📍 This book serves as a useful resource for anyone interested in the development of the Indian economy after independence. The history of economic reform in India is the history of the country's efforts to end poverty and create wealth, jobs, healthcare, education, and prosperity. An economic policy lens is used to tell the story of Independent India. 📍 The party that ought to be praised for reforms is instead the book's most vocal opponent, and this is just the beginning of the contradictions within this group. 📍 The author had to go through the pain of remembering how we got to that point in time when reforms were imposed on the country and the financial, regulatory, and moral crisis was fixed in order to fully appreciate the significance of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao to India's economy. 📍 The book then discusses how political narratives of ideological entrapment led to India being forced into an economic policy regime that prioritised poverty reduction. 📍 Th...

 📍 This is a story about a world where people are divided in two parts - good and evil. 📍 The story starts in a village named Gavaldon, here lives two girls - Agatha and Sophie. There have been kidnappings of boys and girls in their village for a few years now. Then later they find out about the books with fairy tales of the kids kidnapped from their village. 📍 Sophie is sure that she is going to be taken this year at the school for good. Agatha doesn't want her friend to be kidnapped. She tries to stop the thing which is taking away her friend away from her. In which she fails and gets herself kidnapped with Sophie. Sophie is excited to see the new adventurous world. She can see the school for good and the school for evil. 📍 The story takes a turn when Agatha gets chosen to the school for good and Sophie to school for the evil. Here in these schools ordinary boys and girls gets trained to be heroes and villains of their own fairy-tale. 📍 The story started in a interesting man...

📍 The book's first section discusses the general characteristics of the Pashtun people, including the geography of Pashtunistan, the origins and tribal characteristics of the Pashtuns, the idea of Pashtunwali, or the Pashtun way, the significance of Islam, the status of women, and Pashto, the Pashtun language. It also includes a chapter on the history of the area from ancient times up until 1901, when the Iron Amir, Abdur Rahman Khan, came to an end peacefully, which was unusual in Pashtunistan. 📖 From around 1849, when the British acquired control of the Sikh kingdom, until 1947, when they left the subcontinent, Section II focuses on the British interactions with the Pashtuns throughout this century of relationship. 📖 British publications have influenced a lot of the narrative about the Pashtuns and the portrayal of their character. The Durand Line Agreement, which divided Pashtunistan into two pieces and was negotiated by the British and the Afghan Amir in 1893, is also covere...

 🇮🇳 For many years, India and China have been at conflict. India is at a crucial moment in its history, stuck between Pakistan on the west and China on the east, where it is in competing directly with China throughout every facet. 🇮🇳 On the one hand, where China has already become a superpower on the verge of dethroning the United States as a world power, India is also on the upswing, and the world is focusing on India presently for a variety of (favourable) factors. 🇮🇳 But why do two nations that were originally established within months of each other in 1949 and 1950 have an undefined border? 🇮🇳 China has always been a national security state, believing that it had to deal with national security issues first of all and above all else, whereas India's primary goals have always been democracy and advancement, and the country only decided to concentrate on national defense in the 1980s. China believes it must reestablish its conventional barriers in the region, which were es...