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A Useful Death Author: Sriram Chellapilla Pages:   416 Publisher: Westland Publications The story begins with a investigation scene. An aspiring actress Priya is dead; it appears like she has committed suicide. Priya was about to appear in a movie with a former Telugu movie star turned politician’s son Anil. It was a debut movie for Anil and it was a hot topic all over the media. With this big news of Priya suspicious suicide our former Telugu movie star hires Partha to investigate the matter. When he arrives at the movie stars residence he is surprised to see the tense situation and wonders what would have happened? What could have gone wrong when everything seemed good? Why did Priya commit suicide? Was it a suicide in the first place? To know more read A Useful Death My Thoughts:  The characters are very well-developed. Most of them have their own secrets and ulterior motives. I especially liked the character of Partha. He’s very intelligent bu...

Heartquake Author: K. Vijayakarthikeyan Pages: 160 Publisher: Rupa Publications India ‘Heartquake’ by K. Vijayakarthikeyan is a thriller book and is the story of IAS Vikram a twenty seven year old from Delhi. The story begins with Rakesh who is trying to run away from Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. Rakesh has the dream of becoming a stand-up comedian but somehow feels like he is stuck in a jail and needs to run away to fulfil this dream of his. But, Vikram finds him and convinces him to give up his idea of running and getting back to the academy.                 Later comes our antagonist Rudra Pratap Rana (RPR) the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh who is invited as a special guest and Vikram has been instructed to take an interview of him. But Vikram and his friends have some other some plans. They all decide to expose RPR and accordingly Rakesh records the intervie...

Narasimha: The Mahaavatar Pages: 320 Author: Kevin Missal Publisher: HarperCollins India ‘Narasimha: The Mahaavatar’ is a mythological fiction by Kevin Missal is a story of bloodshed, war, revenge, kings, powers and all other mystical powers. Narasimha is one of Lord Vishnu’s incarnation who is half human, half lion. Long ago, when Lord Indra had a war against Asuras Prahlads mother had fallen prey to the war and was killed by our protagonist Narasimha. He still has the guilt of killing an innocent lady and his brother too and hence he decides to leave war and now lives his life in isolation as a physician. His only redemption would be in saving young Prahlad from the conspiracies and the bloodshed between the Asuras and Devas. There are other characters too such as Andhaka who has had a very abusive childhood and hence has turned into a horrific person. The conditions take different turns and Prahlad has to choose between betraying his own father and killing his g...

Enrich Life Author: Preeti Pathak Pages: 200 Publisher: Vishwakarma Publications Genre: Non-fiction, Self-Help                 ‘Enrich Life’ by Preeti Pathak is a self-help book which takes us on a 20 day journey to enrich our life and to make us recognize our own self.   We normally put all our energy to solve others problems and to also to please them. But in doing so we usually ignore our own self and we hurt ourselves in manners that we usually don’t think about. The author has beautifully put forth that family and society are an integral part of our life but we should always find some me time for ourselves and our own self first. The author has also made us ponder about questions like ‘who am I, what do I want, what makes me happy’, etc. which we seldom ask ourselves. The author has also put forward the importance of self-love, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-compassion, e...

I, Duryodhana Pages: 344 Author: Pradeep Govind Publisher: Om Books International           ‘I Duryodhana’ by Pradeep Govind is a mythological fiction where we get to see the Mahabharata through the eyes of Duryodhana. We have always seen, heard or read Maharashtra but this one is very different we get to see the viewpoint of Duryodhana and how he feels about the events that are going on and how the dreaded war of Mahabharata took place and under circumstances. Now, even after the dreadful war and awaiting for his death the Crown Prince of Hastinapur reminisces about the past events and narrates the happening of the events starting from his birth. To know the story of Duryodhana and how the events lead to the war of Mahabharata read I, Duryodhana . My Opinion: I loved the writing style of the writer. The writing was neither too fast nor too slow. The author has done an excellent job of giving in detail work that ...