tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54459114982351861212024-03-13T19:11:51.382+05:30SOLITARY SOUL!!!Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-10976519074689098592015-11-01T20:30:00.000+05:302015-11-01T21:34:35.847+05:30Fatal Attraction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">This day marks 6 years of my Blog's journey! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">And this post is a aftermath of my last years Haiku hangover. </span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-24370155876990496652015-10-25T03:03:00.000+05:302015-10-25T03:09:22.893+05:30The Leaves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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touch, light but cold,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">A chill
passing through the murmuring leaves-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">All await with a flaming glow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">To meet
the end of their days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">They
spiral down post a blowing kiss,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">And clad
the earth in an auburn tinge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Yes they
are lost and strewn around<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">But still
exist in nature’s lap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Soon the
cold might bury them deep<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">And gone
is the sun, the sultry heat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">All that
is there is to wait for a white sheet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">But look
the smiles – they bring to children – still!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Piles and
piles created to play;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Adults too
steals some moments away-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Framed or
just lost in pages somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Love, they
feel right till their last day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Caressed
with love by the whispering wind,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Kissed
deep by a season of a kind;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Autumn is
here and they are falling away,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">But soon, like
a phoenix, their home will see a new day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';"><span style="color: #674ea7;">-Vaisakhi
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-72591510121939823292015-09-08T11:36:00.001+05:302015-09-08T11:36:20.443+05:30If I Were Free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Long but tiny shackles of gold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Infinity defined by a glass dome<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Freedom is all but an illusion for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Yet I think of if I were free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Hath ages adorned no damage of fate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And let me cross the conventional gates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">There would be more of me now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And to none of the masters would I ever bow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Fence life with spirit and light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And lift myself on an adventure flight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Roam around like a free bird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Beyond horizons beyond restrictions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Over a burden of rudimentary expectations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And met life at the juncture of dawn and dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But trapped is my life, my spirit all gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">If I were free is just a thought forlorn.</span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-12664454788618775172015-08-03T13:21:00.002+05:302015-08-03T13:23:09.715+05:30The Grey Day - Part 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">It wasn’t
suffocating. The cold was gone completely. But they were still in stark
darkness and hope trickled down their tired muddy faces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Simi, I am too
sleepy. What if I don’t make it? I can’t feel my legs anymore. And I don’t have
the strength to stay up anymore. “ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simi looked at
Lisa and knew she had almost reached the zenith of despair. “I will keep watch,
you sleep for some time. You will need strength for when they pull us out of
this hell hole.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Lisa took
Simi’s advice and Simi was more vigilant than ever. It was more like the last
burst of energy before the end, at least for her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After an
infinite lapse of time, Simi felt light showers of dust on her. The same as the
one she had witnessed after the one minute of nature’s wrath had ceased. But
this was different. This one was for hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Lisa, get up.
I think the rescuers are here. Please get up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Lisa got up to
witness the same shower, now accompanied by faint thuds. It was the rescuers
for sure. But she was too fatigued and dehydrated. Simi started screaming with
all her might for help and the thuds stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is there
anyone in there?” Someone asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Yes, we are.
Two people. My friend is hurt. She can’t move. But she is alive” an elated Simi
replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After twenty
minutes of desperate wait, Simi could finally see daylight but no escape route.
The dust shower had increased and Lisa refused to even raise her head anymore.
Exhaustion had taken a toll on her, but the surging energy in Simi seemed
enough for both of them. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">After another
ten minutes, Simi could finally see their rescuer’s face. Maybe it was
exaggeration, but Simi had never been so pleased to see anyone, ever, let alone
a stranger. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">They removed
the fridge first. Lisa was squirming with pain from the minute the cement
boulders were being raised but the minute the huge machine was lifted, she
screamed and fainted. The rescue team didn’t waste any time in asking Simi
about her condition. A man came down, picked her up and left. There was chaos
above, and Simi was lost, waiting, fearing what she didn’t even want to
imagine. After sometime another man came to take Simi. He tried to lift her,
but she protested. She wanted to know about Lisa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Your friend is
fine Ma’am. She was pinned down for too long. There was a toxin build up in her
blood – it is very common in these cases. Sudden blood flow caused her immense
pain and she fainted. The doctors still need to look at her legs. But she is
fine, she will be fine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simi wanted to
cry, wanted to let go of her fear, wanted to feel safe. All she needed was to
cry but was unable to do so. She let her rescuer take her out of the
misery-ville.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simi was in a
small camp that had been set where the central garden of her society used to
be. She looked at what used to be her building. She looked around and all she
saw was death, and wreckage. Her society was gone. Buildings were gone. Some
cut in halves, some shortened, and some with no reason for being called
buildings at all. She looked at the people in the camp. Seven people were from
her building excluding her. She imagined some to be in the hospital where Lisa
was being treated. A lady from the medical tent had come to take Simi for
checkup, but all Simi wanted was water and sleep. She had not had water for
more than twenty hours now, but she went with the lady anyways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The doctor at
the medical counter had a Motorola handset, and throughout her checkup she kept
a stern gaze on the cellphone. After the doctor was done with his job, Simi
spoke for the first time after being rescued.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Can I make one
call from your handset?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The doctor
smiled and handed her the phone. “Just one call please, for now” he said and
went on to check the others dragged in by the lady.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Aunty, this is
Simi. Lisa and I are fine, alive. She wanted to talk to you but the doctors
took her away. She wanted to say sorry. She survived, we survived because she
wanted to talk to you” Simi said and waited for the sobs to die down at the
other end. “Please call Maa and tell her I am fine. I will call her when I get
a chance to.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She ended the
call and collapsed where she was standing. Sobs and tears had finally found a
way. She was crying because she was happy. Life was finally making sense again.
And she remembered the last words her mother had told her before the call had
ended, “You are lucky, very lucky.” What she meant was that Simi was lucky that
she wasn’t in Dehradun and did not have to wake up early for the Army Parade.
But what her mother had said was partly true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She had
survived. She was lucky, very lucky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-86773713584428821362015-07-29T20:21:00.001+05:302015-07-29T20:36:17.098+05:30The Grey Day - Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Will we
survive?” Lisa asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We have to.
You hugged the fridge after saving me. We have to.” Simi said stoically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You must be
hungry. Have the tomatoes.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simi looked at
the dusty red objects – unwashed and dirty but they looked scrumptious. Five,
barely red but mouthwatering tomatoes surrounded by a dry pond of spilt milk,
stale curry and some sauces. She picked up two and moved gingerly towards Lisa.
But the floor beneath Lisa started to fall or that is how it seemed. Realizing
the unstable trait of the barely holding floor she tossed a tomato at Lisa and
slumped back in her corner. The girls enjoyed their meal but did not dare to
drink water despite being parched. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The two girls
kept staring at the sepia and grey dilapidated space that was once a room and
talking in monologues for hours. The stuffiness of the corner had escalated. The
paucity of air had been served with a dash of dust. Without a watch it was
difficult for them to tell the time but they were sure night was going to make
them wait for long. Simi must have dozed off due to boredom, because her
thought train was not stuck at the last words with her mom anymore, but on how
cold were January nights in Gujarat. The sun had surely set as it was cold
again, ruthlessly cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Imagine us
clad in woolen sweaters and having hot masala chai at Dhir Bhai’s Tapri
(shop)”. Lisa said after she saw Simi shivering with cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Like
imagination always helps!” Simi’s irritation had reached the peak of self-pity.
“Would Dhir Bhai have survived this? His shop is a small shanty. If our
building is all dust, his shop would be lost underground right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“We will figure
out after we are rescued.” Lisa said with a feeble smile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How are you
doing this? How did you not sleep? How are you still hopeful? It is night and
no rescue has come. I didn’t even hear a sound from our own building after the
quake; a building of fourteen families and twenty Paying Guests!” Simi asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“You did have
some conversation with your mother before all this. I haven’t talked to mine
since day before yesterday.” Lisa said. “And I can’t sleep because I fear we
would miss the rescuers when they come. If we miss them, they won’t hear us,
they won’t be careful and all this would be for nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Simi could see
the determination behind Lisa’s pain. Most people in her situation would be
withering with pain, screaming and sobbing. But Lisa was not most people, she
had never been one. When Simi had met Lisa, she was a rebellious girl, hot
headed and ‘the guy band’ chick, but she was also the most genuine person Simi
had found in the campus, most eligible for being her roommate. Lisa never spoke
with her father, Simi never asked why but she did regularly call up her mother
though those calls always ended abruptly. She had heard Lisa shout on phone a
couple of days back and since then Lisa had abandoned that machine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She had to
live. They had to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The small talk
with Lisa had restarted Simi’s memory quest for the last thing her mother had
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The cold wasn’t
helping Simi’s situation anymore. Night grew and so did the chill. They were
trapped in rubble, engrossed in darkness, under a blanket of dust and dirt,
then how had the sultry corner become a chilling one? Simi wondered, diverting
herself from her thoughts again. She was desperate now. She had to pee, but was
too embarrassed. She had quenched her thirst by just staring at the broken
fridge door but still as nature has its way of everything; it had made her a
puppet too. First the quake, then the unwashed tomatoes now this, for Simi the
grey day was getting weird and never ending. She had OCD, mainly related to
cleanliness but now she had two ways for going crazy. She looked at Lisa, whose
chin was resting on her folded arm, face muddy with cement, dust and blood, and
eyes were blankly gazing at the never ending darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“How are you
holding?” Simi went crimson. She knew she had. But was relieved Lisa could not
see her flushed face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Didn’t I tell
you some hours back?” Lisa asked, baffled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Not that
holding. I..I want to pee.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Lisa laughed
and refused to stop till the pain got unbearable again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I already did
it. Didn’t tell you because it was weird. But guess when you are confined in a
cage of walls, or what were walls, you don’t really have any option.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hmm, I will do
when I can now” Simi chose to shut up for a while, planning on the ‘when’ part.
When she finally let go of all her inhibitions, Lisa and Simi gobbled up the
remaining tomatoes and water from the only fridge door bottle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-79889603302234262922015-07-12T14:52:00.002+05:302015-07-12T21:49:33.593+05:30The Grey Day - Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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2001<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Ahmedabad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Day and night
meant nothing to Simi anymore – it was all grey, charcoal grey. She had lost
track of time but knew hours had passed and still nothing had changed. Lisa was
lying in front of her, not sleeping, not unconscious either, but barely moving.
The refrigerator was still on Lisa’s legs and on a part of her back. The
merciful machine had spilt milk on the ground - that was now uneven and broken,
some tomatoes too - five of which were at less than an arm’s distance from
where Simi sat, and rest had found solace in the newly built cracks of the
floor. The fridge door was detached from the main body, and had a half filled
bottle of water and a broken jar of jam. Eggs were broken and were on the
floor. The door was peacefully warming up right next to Lisa. Everything else
was lost in the dusty, bricked and cemented background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">A million
hours ago, or so it seemed to Simi, Simi was fighting with her mom. She thought
about her decision that had led her to this situation. Simi had moved to
Ahmedabad for her MBA about a year back. Terrified by the chronicles of the IIM
A hostels, Lisa and she had chosen a cozy flat for two years. Simi’s mother had
called today to wake them up early morning. Hailing from a Punjabi army family,
sleeping past sunrise on 26<sup>th</sup> January was a criminal offense
according to Simi’s mother, and she had made sure the two sleepyheads were up
on time. It was around 8:40 A.M. when her mother had called again to howl at
her for not going to the City Republic Day Parade and that was when the fight
had started. Simi tried very hard to remember the last words her mother had
said before the call ended abruptly but all she could remember was the rumbling
of the concrete land that had drowned those words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">She had lost
her balance, had noticed Lisa scream, “The corner now!” and then was being
dragged towards the corner - laterally opposite to the fridge and a wall which
never held any significance for her. By the time she could voice out her
realization to her mother, the cordless in her hand had no tone. Lisa paced
towards the fridge to get something – a bottle of water perhaps, and the room
was split into 2 already - the other part crumbling under the pressure of the
cement sarsens falling from the floors above. The rumbling discordance was then
pierced by Lisa’s painful scream. The kitchen cabinet had fallen, which she had
managed to dodge with a small cut on her head and was checking something on the
ground with a bottle of water in her hand. But the thoughtless Fridge could not
hold its ground and fell on her, and with that she reached Simi’s corner,
sliding. Simi completely oblivious to the fact that the ground where she was
now sitting had tilted and random things in the room where trying to reach her
wall which was half its original size now. The door of the open, sliding fridge
hit the walls during its short descent and slowed down the refrigerator’s ride
but Lisa had lost her bottle, which vanished where some part of the wall used
to stand. And it was all silent after that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">“Are you
okay?” was what broke Simi’s perplexed trance. She looked at Lisa, who was
pinned under the fridge and boulders of someone’s ceiling and wall; she was not
sure any more about whose walls had stopped the fridge half way. Lisa had
bruises on her arms, a deep cut on her head and she was asking if Simi was
alright; it was amusing to Simi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">“You are
bleeding.” Lisa said, painfully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">“So are you”
Simi replied, and the girls started giggling. Not happy chuckles, but that is
all they could think of doing – chuckle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">“Simi, stop. I
can’t laugh anymore. It hurts” Lisa said, pain clearly ringing in her voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">Simi
acknowledged Lisa’s request and embraced silence once again. She realized the
crumbling building had not spared her completely, as she thought a couple of
minutes back. She could feel her damp
hair, although it was not perspiration but blood. Her arms and face were also
etched by the falling rubble. But all she could wonder about was how one minute
of the earthquake had destroyed their house of one year, beyond recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #595959; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=65000 lumo=35000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166;">The one minute
was the only time she remembered now. Hours had gone by, her stomach was
rumbling, but the terror of the minute still gripped Simi and Lisa’s condition
had numbed her completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-67353622929853864662015-03-01T13:25:00.001+05:302015-03-01T13:25:52.239+05:30Summer Rains<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8XDhvekPNUA/VPLF8QcSPvI/AAAAAAAAFN4/SxvkN3oVue8/s1600/rain-fall-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8XDhvekPNUA/VPLF8QcSPvI/AAAAAAAAFN4/SxvkN3oVue8/s1600/rain-fall-1.jpg" height="424" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Laden wisps of the sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Deeper than the deepest
dye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Paint the summer day
dark,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Answering to some
murmuring lark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">The dusty shades are
all washed clean,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And some distant
peacocks laugh and preen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But someone sure
knows the source of this treasure trove - <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">These are all but
tears from above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Untimely and
uninvited, the rain still falls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Wet eyes see as melancholy
crawls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But thoughts still
are drawn, staring at the sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">If it can let go why
can’t I?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Life is not like
rain, for it is all in rewind forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But rain lets go of
the summer pain; that is for us to remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-39902375793423440232014-11-22T23:01:00.002+05:302014-11-22T23:03:41.238+05:30Broken Record<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrhKv9yLT9A/VHDIUaY8ulI/AAAAAAAACsE/Bo9-1_9iAS8/s1600/01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UrhKv9yLT9A/VHDIUaY8ulI/AAAAAAAACsE/Bo9-1_9iAS8/s1600/01.jpg" height="296" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: 'MV Boli';">The same tone resonates</span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And all is steady now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">For same song she sings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Day and Night, to and fro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Deterred by her own fate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She dares not to speak more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">If only one could hear her words untold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She could stop this never ending tour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Strewn leaves on the pavement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But not one blows away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She knows it all tells her something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">No one hears her cry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Voice gone, words frozen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She walks down the woods alone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Stopping all to not go in there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But they do go and then are gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">If only she was not a humming broken record<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">And could snap them out of the suicidal trance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She could save so many from the doom</span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She was pulled into once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><br /></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-86158385581624938562014-11-05T00:04:00.000+05:302014-11-05T00:04:09.322+05:30Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-47793957257069616522014-11-04T00:05:00.001+05:302014-11-04T00:05:25.897+05:30Mangata<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-29410350651715059462014-11-03T00:01:00.000+05:302014-11-03T00:01:16.294+05:30Woods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-59888411058357661542014-11-02T00:51:00.000+05:302014-11-02T00:51:37.896+05:30The Boulevard<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: 'MV Boli';">P.S. - Today my blog turns 5! And like every year I do plan to do something different for the this space means a lot to me. So forgive me (if you feel tortured) but for 5 days now, starting from today, I would be trying out my hand at something that scares me - 'Literally'! </span></span></div>
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still unsteady from her slumber maybe. A sharp pain in her back and her sore
eyes remind her, she had slept on the cold carpet yesterday. Her body still in grip
of the sleepy inertia; she settles back on the oddly fresh rug and looks at the
vacant room for some time. She fiddles with her hair wondering about the cold.
There has been a weird lingering cold all over the place lately. Her bright and
lively house seems to have given in to the cold, as it gives her the chills
too. It is morning but still feels like there are hours left for the sun to
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a walk with her husband she figures. They didn’t wake her up? Killian didn’t wake
her up? They did have a fight last night but it was unlike Killian to not come
and sleep next to her in the middle of the night and wrap his protective arms
around her. His warmth could take this cold away. But guess he was more angry
than usual this time. Pancakes and espresso! That would bring the smile back on
his face. She briskly walks towards the kitchen, the pain still refusing to
subside from her frozen bones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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still not returned from the stroll. She opens the front door, stands on the
porch; worry taking over, hollowing her somehow. Where are they? She wonders but
soon her pensive trance is broken by nature. She notices the delightfully green
grass pepping out of the white sheet slowly. The pancakes!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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moment now, she thinks. Her children would be hungry. Killian, he loves her, he
can’t be angry for so long and she has to make amends this time. It was her
fault but only now that she thinks about the last night she can’t recall the
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there, but her family is missing. She rushes inside the kitchen to fetch the
box of Chocos for Marie. How did she forget that? Marie needs her chocolate
filled milk every day first thing in the morning. How did she forget? She almost
runs out with the box and a jug of hot milk and settles down on a dinning
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not feel. The chill is growing with the day, and she knows now why. They are
never coming, at least not to her. She exists but not as herself. She stares
blankly at her own black eyes and the devil sneers. She is forced to watch her family;
her Killian, her Marie and her Dan. They eat something in which, only she can
see - blood, her blood with the devil flavor now. The devil is feeding them her
blood! She runs towards the mirror right across the table, the mirror through
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Author: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Ravi Subramanium</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">I</span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">SBN: </span><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px; text-align: left;">9780143421399</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Aditya runs a gaming company that is struggling to break even. A banker slips off a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">highrise building, plunging to her death. The finance minister has made some promises </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">that he is finding hard to keep. The LTTE has unleashed terror in America that sends </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">the FBI on a wild goose chase, bringing them to Mumbai.</span></span></div>
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– You are literally going through literary withdrawal and would get high with
even a small insignificant dose of good fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Of
late, I have been reading some really ‘not upto the mark’ books (totally my fault!)
So when Blogadda sent me God is a Gamer by Ravi Subramanium for review, my
expectations were below the zero mark but it had me from the very start - the
prologue! The story starts with an intense conversation, between two corporate
honchos, regarding Wikileaks. The story rushes straight into action with an
explosion and from there on the book doesn’t really have any drop points. The
story moves with parallel plots in multiple cities including Mumbai, Washington
DC and Goa. Characters range from S senators, to Heads of Banks and Mastercard and Visa to drug dealer cum gaming genius and many more. The death of a US Senator was what sets the pace of the book but is
not the only one and the way the story is weaved with phishing issues, Bitcoins
and world financial drama is what makes it impossible to keep the book down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Plot – When you use Wikileaks and Bitcoins in the
initial pages and do a damn good job at it, half the battle is won. And when
you get large plotlines together with such ease and in a convincing way, it
means you can pat your back. The plot is not only intriguing, it is written in
simple yet in a very engaging fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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– One of the major issues with thrillers with a lot of characters is readers
tend to lose track of the characters and a lot of times some characters and
under used or just appear as fillers. But with the short chapters and the constant
plot swings of God is a Gamer, it is hard to lose track of the characters. And
each one is important, or at least that is what I felt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and say seriously before I got the mild attack! *Have said too much already!*<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Logical Loopholes – Data transfer from a system
that is shut down, that too cause of a malware! Is that even possible? There are
quite a few logical loopholes but this one stood out glaringly for me (an IT
professional). Another one was the phishing attacks – don’t they need cell
phone access for the one time password or something? How do Account ID and
Password give you total access of the account?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for the pseudo ending, but the actual ending was a bit unrealistic for me to
digest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it a 4 on 5. The book would make a lot of readers hit Google for atleast a
couple of hours. It is fast paced and fresh and totally justifies its sub genre
of Banking Thriller. And this is confession time – after reading this book I realized
what I have been missing for months. Totally recommending the book!</span></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-90292022914562714192014-10-25T23:20:00.000+05:302014-10-25T23:20:04.682+05:30Book Review - Me, You & Of Course Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Author: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Himanshu Chauhan</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">I</span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">SBN: </span><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px; text-align: left;">9781630417772</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pages: 266 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">"Every love story has something extraordinary in it."Well, it was a myth for Himanshu till he met Ishika online. Ishika is a nurse from Mumbai. But love comes with a "conditions apply" tag. Six years age difference, career & different cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Anusha, is a girl who wears her heart on her cheeks rather on her sleeves. She was the little "extra" in Hims extraordinary love story. From her vodka to his favourite website they always share a little "extra"and become best friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Himanshu's career is on stake as he plans to destroy Ishika's marriage. Would he be able to save his love? Would he be able to get out of the best friend-zone?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">A tale of love, emotions, betrayal and much more. It's not a cliched love story but a story they had both dreamt of.</span></div>
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every new comer in the storytelling kingdom these days, Romance serves as the scrutiny
free, immigration free gate and same is the case with Himanshu Chauhan, whose
debut novel Me, You & Of Course Love was sent to me by BlackBuck
publications for review. The story is of Hims aka Himanshu who falls in love
with Ishika, a nurse from Mumbai and their roller coaster ‘something extra’
love story. The issue with Ishika and Himanshu was – A. Age difference of 6
years (Hims has a thing for a smart older lady); B. Career and Cultural
difference C. Anusha. Anusha is Himansh’s best friend but not his love – so you
can imagine! The story goes from simple love to full swing drama zone with
Himanshu’s plans to wreck Ishika’s marriage. And then there is the side kick
best friend zoned story line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">1.
Narration – The flow helps a reader connect well with the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">2.
Last Chapter – Glad it did not end with an over the top incident. The last
chapter sums p the whole books feel pretty well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Relatable characters – The characters of the story are people we would easily
find around us, hence you tend to get in the tone of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Nothing New – The story is not a fresh one, nor is it the best version of this
typical storyline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">2. Editing - There are so many places in the book where you feel 'this bit was not needed'. Grammar needs polishing, content needs brushing up and story needs to be crisp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
story seems to go with a Chetan Bhagat flow with pages out of My Best Friend’s
Wedding, Mere Yaar Ki Shaddi hai and many more. But the end of this total Bollywood
material is on a very subtle human note. The story is nothing new and has been
told and retold in a million ways before, but the book still somehow is
refreshing and light for a one time read on a lazy day. I would rate this perfect
chick-lit a 3 on 5. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-33355052168893187622014-10-06T23:19:00.001+05:302014-10-06T23:19:08.172+05:30Out Of Denial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Is a soul so torn, lost in madness;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Luring her to a sparkling Mangata,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">But torn she is, not defeated yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">She now wanders to find acceptance’s lair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Book:</span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: justify;">Who Told Men Not To Cry?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Author: </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">Azar</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">I</span></span><span style="color: #351c75; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">SBN: </span><span style="color: #351c75; line-height: 18.2399997711182px; text-align: left;">9781630414306</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pages: 249 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ratings: 2/5</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price: 150</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It gave me the happiness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It gave me the pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">When
a book starts with wrong grammar, you know for sure it is going to be a disaster
and same was the condition of ‘Who told men not to cry?’, by Azar. The story
is of a boy with adjustment issues. Raj the protagonist of the book belongs to
a middle class family and is termed unlucky from the very start because the day
he was born, his father suffered a loss in business. The book then moves on to
his school life where for Raj the whole world revolves around his friends,
teachers and ‘his girl’ aka Keerthi his love interest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;"> He was a topper and was loved by all till
class tenth but life took a turn (like it does for everyone) when he had to
shift to high school. That is when his real struggle started as he had to face
the consequences of not being a topper – no more the apple of his teachers’
eyes, no more genuine and trust worthy friends and no more ‘his girl’. Raj then
works hard and tries to overcome his adjustment issues in order to sustain the
pressures of High School but one of his biggest concerns is if he will get ‘his
girl’ back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Pros
– <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Funny moments and light jokes in the book keep
you going to some extent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">The end – For a book with a very week plot to end
in a funny satisfying end, it is a big thing. I liked the quirky poem in the
end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Cons
– <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Grammar – A full length novel that starts with – “My
son, it’s again you are going to be late to your college,” shouted my mom as I
was busy singing in my bathroom. – gives you the picture of the book and takes
the rating of 5 straight down to 3. (Sorry I am a Grammar Nazi)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Raj’s Character sketching – Why does Raj call his friends mothers mom? And how does a flirtatious guy become teachers’
favourite by literally being cheesy and flirting with them? Also Raj hardly
ever talks about his own family; his friends’ families have been given more
importance in the book than his own mother and sister.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">My Girl! – Keerthi is her name. I found myself
saying this God knows how many times in the 3 hours I took to finish the book.
The author addresses his girlfriend as my girl almost everywhere. It gave the
book very non – bookish feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
story seems like ranting of a teenage boy and the storyline is not something an
avid reader would enjoy. This book is the debut of the 20 year old author,
Azar; and for his age it is a decent work but as a book or story it is a big
failure. Unfortunately the book needs a
hell lot of editing and serious revision in case of grammar. Except for the end
– atleast it was realistic, tragic yet funny, I personally didn’t enjoy the
book much. Might be a onetime read for many but I wouldn’t pick the book again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #351c75; font-family: 'MV Boli'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">P.S.- This book was given to me by BlackBuck Publications for review and the review is completely my own view about the book.</span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-48680055805288231532014-09-21T23:49:00.000+05:302014-10-04T01:35:57.025+05:30Of Course, We are Best Friends : Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Book:</span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">Of Course, We are Best Friends!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Author: </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #351c75; text-align: justify;">Sonia Bansal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">I</span></span><span style="color: #351c75; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">SBN: </span><span style="color: #351c75; line-height: 18.2399997711182px; text-align: left;">9781630412920</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pages: 200 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ratings: 3/5</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Price: 140</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bond so strong</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A longing so necessary</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A feeling so precious</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Here
is one of the biggest advantages of travelling for almost 4 hours a day – You can
finish a book! Yes recently I have finished 2 such books and this is the first
of the two. ‘Of Course, We are Best Friends!’ by Sonia Bansal is a short and
sweet tale of friendship and love. The story revolves around the protagonists
Aditi and Aditya who are classmates in school. Even at the young age, and with
absolutely no idea about the depth of the emotion named love, Aditya falls for
Aditi. Aditi being, the free spirited girl, though naïve in her thoughts is
more rational than Aditya and feels young love is nothing more than infatuation.
Soon they become best buddies and are the target of every Tom Dick and Harry in
their friend circle. Teasing, helping, making random jokes slowly pulls them
towards each other and very soon they start dating each other. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Their
love blossoms in school against all rationalities but fails with the first real
challenge they have to face - long distance relationship in college. They meet
after some years but the awkwardness of past haunts them. Aditya being more
involved than Aditi, fights with every inch of his will to let go of the
weirdness and in the end the friends do make a decision, saving their friendship
from the dark clouds of immature love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Pros:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Point of views – The author gives you the point
of view of both the protagonist throughout the story. The way the story is
written is refreshing and keeps you going.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Narration – Simple and effective, just like
reading your regular day to day diary. Something light like every tired book
person would want after a hectic day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Cons:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Nothing new – We hear these things, we know these
things, and Durjoy Dutta and Chetan Bhagat have made sure we read these things
too. There is nothing to take away from the story, nor does it leave you with a
long lasting feel good effect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Editting – It is very important for a book to be
free of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes cause if the reader is like
me, it breaks the flow and gets irritating. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Over
all it is a onetime read for sure, but that is all it is. It is a book you
would pick to refresh yourself. When I got this book to review from the
publishers, I thought it would be the same as any random teenage love story
book these days and wasn’t wrong; but having said that it was a refreshing read
thanks to the narration and the point of view writing style. To let go of the
heavy life and hold a mirror at simplicities, that we seem to have forgotten
these days, teenagers included. I would give the book a 3 on 5 rating and would
really want the author to try some new and different genre because she sure
shows the flair of storytelling in this book. The book manages to break the
illusion that a girl and a boy can always be good friends but in a very
conventional way. I would have enjoyed it more, had the story explored
unconventional track to explore the emotions. For people who love chick flicks
and teenage romance, this book is surely something you will enjoy.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">P.S.- This book was given to me by BlackBuck Publications for review and the review is completely my own view about the book.</span></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-80874644463864727952014-09-21T01:46:00.001+05:302014-10-04T02:04:23.274+05:30A Passionaate Gospel of True Love : Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">Book:</span><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.1; text-align: left;">A Passionaate Gospel of True Love</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px;">Author: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 18.3999996185303px; text-align: justify;">Poonaam Uppal</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">I</span></span></span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;">SBN: </span><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2399997711182px; text-align: left;">9788192105</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="line-height: 19.6000003814697px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pages: 1084 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something from the book:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I would wash your path with my tears of plea</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My eyes are fixed on the road that brings you to me</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beholding the ocean of love in your eyes"</span></span></div>
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and reality, A Passionaate Gospel of True Love by Poonaam Uppal, is the journey
of an ambitious Indian girl Moh Lal. The story moves through the corridors of
glamour and desire as Moh has her mind set on becoming an internationally acclaimed
Fashion Designer. And destiny lets her wallow in her yearnings too, until one
day when not only it deceives her desire but changes her course all together.
Moh gets a premonition, a sign from Goddess Durga that she would meet her
ancient lover in 1997 and that sets her on the path of finding her true love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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National to International and back and makes you her unseen companion through
her journey which is donned by Deja vu, divine interferences, premonitions, idiosyncratic
occurrences and past birth revelations. The journey makes her a believer of
love, beyond the sexual and artificial meaning people have accepted for the
word these days. And also leads her to misty terrains of Himalayas for a
cryptic secret waiting to be unveiled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Narration – The flow is such that it makes you feel you are reading
a diary and keeps you intrigued about the next incident always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Descriptions – If one thing
every reader would cherish in this book (whether the book is of his/her type or
not), it is descriptions. They were intricate, vivid and literally pen painted
every page of the book in front of you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sections – Can’t reveal much here, but I really liked these bits and yes the
book has pictures too!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Autobiography – Fact that it was an autobiography kept me
distracted for a very long time. And I have to be frank and accept; only when I
started reading it as a random novel did I enjoy tits and bits of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">Love Messiah – Moh to
Messaih, the story I still can’t digest. Kama Sutra and Love the holiest of the
religions! I don’t really believe any god would preach religion. They or their messiah
preached principles and way of life and people segregated them in religions. If
Moh really was dragooned by her destiny set by Ma Durga , Love can’t be the
religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sorry, again it is a read to know more con, but I found that ruining the flow.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #604a7b; font-family: MV Boli;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">4. Grammar and Punctuation - The book is some serious need of revision where grammar and punctuation are considered. Repetitions and random sentences going on and on. For a 1084 page book, these factors do matter. It gets annoying!</span></span></div>
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apparently the autobiography of the author, but I went on reading is as some
fantasy novel and it had many sections where I felt the situations and
happenings were gonzo incidents. And my review too is totally for the book as a
novel and not an autobiography. Nevertheless
the flow of the book is such that it feels like you are reading someone’s diary
and surely by the end of it, it leaves you with a new thought about love; a
more mature and to be pondered upon thought. I would give this book a 3 star
on 5 because I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions else would have been a 2.5 for the content. Even though the story felt
dragged it did make a sense and most of the points were tied up. It was a onetime
read for me, given the fact that I don’t usually enjoy books related to romance
and love. But for all the lovers out there, who knows this might be your kind
of book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-65829178669246247492014-09-04T12:05:00.003+05:302014-09-04T23:51:10.253+05:30Waqt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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humara aks hume<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-8634994895187982042014-08-24T22:47:00.002+05:302014-10-04T01:44:07.544+05:30Private India - Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">ISBN: 1780891725</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Pages: 447 (Excluding extract by Patterson)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24.299999237060547px;"><span style="color: #351c75;">Yellow Garrote Killings, read the headline of the Afternoon Mirror.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">And
the Private Investigators are finally in India thanks to Ashwin Sanghi. Ashwin
Sanghi teamed up with International Thriller King James Patterson to get
Patterson’s Private series to India with a case brewing in Aamchi Mumbai. Murder,
Investigators, Shady but not guilty characters and Twists – this is thriller
101 formula and Private India capitalizes on most of it. The story starts with
the murder of Thai national and more women are killed rather strangled with a yellow
scarf as the story progresses. Enter Santosh Wagh an ex police officer who is a
rough image of Detective Spencer of True detective – Alcoholic and Dark past.
He is appointed to solve the curious case of the yellow scarf by Jack Morgan,
the head of Private worldwide. Mumbai police overburdened with their work, in
awe of Private’s quick response to Marine Bay Plaza’s call and puzzled by the
deaths and their frequency hand the case to Private India, the best “private”
detective agency of the country and so begins the hunt for the psychopath. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
story is a typical crime/murder mystery, so some of you might be wondering why
Mr. Sanghi, right? Well turns out the scarf and the murder pattern has cultural
and religious linkage, so the expertise. The story however doesn’t restrict
itself to the main track. ISI makes a special appearance so does Indian
Mujahideen and the story maintains the drama punch thanks to the cop sidekicks
and a Don. The book is fast paced and enveloped in the essence of Mumbai from
Taj to Dharavi from Chowpati to Malabar but has many flaws that make it a onetime
read and that too an unimpressive one. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Fast Paced – Classic James Patterson novel needs
to be fast paced and this book doesn’t disappoint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the mystery till the end which was somewhat satisfying.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Language – Bad editing or bad writing, still in a
fix cause no matter whose fault it is the book has numerous flaws when it comes
to English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Unimpressive Characterization – Sanghi makes all
attempts to let his characters make a significant impact but fails terribly.
Even the Main characters Santosh and Neha don’t really impress you at any point
of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Research in terms of the Religious and cultural
aspects – Poor, that’s the word and have to say it is so unlike Ashwin Sanghi’s
works. The religious aspect of Thuggee cult seemed interesting in the beginning
but lost the charm mid way. To portray any fact as historical stuff proper research
and clarity on the topic is required and failing to do so is one of the biggest
flaws of this book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Over cooked Tale – I sincerely want to ask Ashwin
Sanghi why has he started writing stories with a Bollywood frame. There are so
many things in the book that scream “this is such a Salman Khan Thing.” I am
ready to let go of the flaw in the very concept of the book – Mumbai Police
giving all authorities to a Private Detective agency; but other than that the
cold war between old pals, the unwanted intimate breaks and the overdone climax,
was all that really needed?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">On the whole the book gets a tick as a thriller
for sure but fails to impress as a novel on the whole. I would give this book a
3.5, would have been a 3 had I not found the pace fast enough to not spend time
sulking over the logical errors. The story is a ready to hand over script
for a Bollywood action movie but not a one to find its corner in any reader’s
paradise. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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walls sing to her a symphony dry<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Of
life that flutters by her closed window pane<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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some dim lit lamps blatantly glorify<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
ageless wait for her lover in a luxurious den<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
one of big halls but closed doors<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Of
colours and hues <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">And
grandeur but also blues<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">A
story of a girl full of life<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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who lost herself in some vain strife<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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name maybe that of a queen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">But
reality is grave and often unseen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Her
face is now shadowed by a lull<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">But
tearing her apart is a raging storm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">What
had she got in name of fortune’s call<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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caged bird she was to be part of some historic form</span>.</span></div>
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Vaisakhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113594834991537223noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445911498235186121.post-10440458924843236622014-08-11T01:33:00.001+05:302014-10-04T01:45:57.035+05:30Rise of the Sun Prince - Book Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Book:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Ramayana: The Game of Life - Rise of the Sun Prince</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Author: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shubha Vilas</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">ISBN: </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: left;">9788184955309</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Pages: 252</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Ratings: 4/5</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Price: 250</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.299999237060547px;">Sweet, genuine words of gratitude are the best welcome drinks!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Ramayana
is the way of life. Haven’t we heard this line a number of times? But do we
believe it? Do we really see glimpses of our lives, our day to day challenges,
our reverberating thoughts of what is right and wrong, in the versions of Ramayana
that we know? I don’t know about all of you but till last week Ramayana was
nothing more than a mythological story for me. Then what changed in a week? It
was this book - Ramayana: The Game of Life #1 - Rise of the Sun Prince by
Shubha Vilas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">There
have been hundreds of renditions of this ageless saga but none have come this
close to making me look beyond the tale. Rise of the Sun Prince is the first of
the 6 books that have knitted the story from the poetic verses of Valmiki to
the veiled analogies of Kamba Ramayana. The first book mainly focuses on Bala
Kand of Ramayana but with a lot of insight to various aspects of the epic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
book starts off with a gist of Ramayana in a very fundamental form but slowly
delves into the era and the circumstances of the era. Ramayana that we have read
till date runs on the high emotional quotient and the theme of love and
sacrifice but this book makes you look at the book from the angle of society, struggles,
and “not everything is black and white along with the emotional built up. The
story starts with how Rishi Valmiki came to be despite of his sinister past and
then gives you the whole insight to the great king Dasharatha. Did you know Dasharatha
had 350 wifes other than his Prime Queens? You don’t believe me, it is ok, I didn’t
believe either. But this book not only mentions that, it also gives the reason
behind it. After that starts the journey of a hero in making and the journey of
a spiritual teacher to find the true sense of the spiritual realms and the strength
of the Guru Sishya relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">The
protagonist of the story might be Rama but for this book it was Vahishtha –
Flawed, Strong, Famous, Respected, Lost and on the journey of finding himself.
He was the guru of the Suryavanshi Princes, but the short tempered sage was also
on a quest of his own, to defeat the demons that were determined to spread the negative
energy everywhere. But in his journey he tends to lose himself cause of his
anger and spreads some level of negativity himself. The book connects to our
very own lives with that of Vashishtha and the way he learns from the young
princes all while teaching them. At the same time the story of Ahilya and that
of Sita talks of Fate and dedication.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Pros
– <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Narration - Powerful yet simple and crisp
narration.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">2.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">Perfected Rendition - Logical, bit philosophical
but very apt rendition of Ramayana and not just a direct rip off of the story
in different words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">3.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">The chapters – The way the story is written, it
makes you think clearly and connect directly to the physical and metaphysical lines
of the mythology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">4.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">The footnotes – The give you all that you need to
know but not enough that you would have wanted to know. For example The Author
started with Ravana’s story, gave just a sneak peek of his beginning but it was
the footnotes about him and his brothers and sisters that made me say – I want
to read more about them!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">Cons
– <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "MV Boli";">If you are not a mythology fan, I don’t think you
will enjoy the book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="color: #351c75;">On
the whole the Book is a sure read for every mytho-fiction fan and is a soul
stirring yet a very light read and re read version of Ramayana. More than the
story you will end up learning a lot out the characters, era and about life. This
book is a sure 4 on 5 book and am eagerly waiting for the next part.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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