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The Kaafir’s Love

30 Saturday Jun 2018

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image007 (1).jpgAuthor – Abhisar Sharma

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 257

Publisher – Rupa Publications

The religion in India is always a favorite topic for storytellers and writers. The love stories based on the subject of religion where young lads fell in love across religions are all too familiar for the readers. It’s a restless and edgy story of Sameer and Inara fell in love at the wrong time with the wrong person.

Sameer is a Hindu boy of a fruit seller single mother. Inara is a Muslim girl belonged to an influential family. They accidentally fell in love much before they knew they were in love. Oblivious of the consequences their love could bring on them they stepped ahead. Based in an Old Delhi neighbourhood, this intense love story has many profiles and brings out the real faces hiding behind religion and protected by dirty politics.

The story of this book is based on the religious differences of the protagonist couple. The plot is not new but the storytelling is impressive. The twists in the story in the right places leave you on the edge and make the story an interesting tale to read. The story is factually correct. It is a work of fiction and if you are living in India, you could easily relate to it. It is a reality check to know what religion can do in India. Religion is a political weapon and makes a major difference in winning. The Indian politics vote bank depends on the religion of the voter. Here we talk more about religion than development. The plot of the story makes it a must-read for Indian readers.

The story is interesting and blunt. I loved the execution of the plot.

Author Bio

Abhisar Sharma, a reputed journalist, won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Indian Express Award (2008-2009) for his pioneering work, ‘Laal Masjid Ka Safed Sach’ (The true story of the Red Mosque) and was also the recipient of the 2017 RedInk Award in the human rights television category for the story ‘Operational Laal Jungle’ (ABP News). With over two decades of experience in the news and television industry, Sharma has offered groundbreaking reportage on major international and national events like the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the Gujarat riots, the Benazir Bhutto assassination, the Jasmine revolution in Egypt, all major Indian elections and the American Presidential elections. Currently hosting the 8PM show on ABP News, the author lives in Delhi.

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When the Chief fell in Love

14 Wednesday Mar 2018

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38209311Author – Tuhin A. Sinha

Rating – 3.5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 248

Publisher – Fingerprint Publishers

This is a story of two souls crossing paths again and again by fate and fell in love accidentally. Will destiny bring them together never to part them? This is a story of Vihaan Shastri and Zaira Bhat. Vihaan, a young and dynamic boy seeing his future in politics lost his heart to Zaira. Zaira never able to fall in love again lost her heart to Vihaan.

The love affair begins in 1990 to not end ever. It is a story of eternal love and what it takes to love someone eternally. Loving someone more than your life and losing them, again and again, seeing her go away from your hands when it was so near to get hold and stop. A love story tangled in political aspirations and dreams.

The story constitutes some real events supporting the plot and pushes the story further such as India’s counter strike in 2016. The two leaps in the story are interesting to watch shaping their lives but did not change their feelings for each other. It is interesting to see the development of the story flowing smoothly through time and travel.

The plot is interesting with intriguing storyline settled in the backdrop of Kashmir and its troubled fortune. The story raises many questions and the protagonist as a young politician has ambitious plans to bring peace in the valley and to their people who deserve more than an unsettled life surrounded by the blooded fate of Kashmir. It also tells how a politician should be.

The poems are good and leave you wanting more of them. A simple story of love and its complications. A story that does not end on the last page of the book and goes beyond.

Author Bio

Tuhin A. Sinha is a best-selling author and politician.

Tuhin is acknowledged among the most prolific Indian writers with a maverick knack of experimenting with new genres. His first book came in 2006, That Thing Called Love and this is his tenth book in eleven and half years now.

Tuhin has also been a screenwriter of several popular TV shows, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, being one of them, which he co-writes in 2011-12.

At present, Tuhin is involved as a special initiative advisor to Shri Nitin Gadkari for his ministries, with a special focus on designing newer communication strategies for Road Safety and Namami Gange. He is also a prominent face on prime-time debates on national television, representing the BJP.

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Mahatma on the Pitch

14 Tuesday Nov 2017

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51QJIAgy3ZL.jpgAuthor – Kausik Bandyopadhyay

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of pages – 160

Publisher – Rupa Publishers

Gandhi, the man who created history. The greatest Indian icon and flag bearer of the Indian national movement of freedom. The world has known him as a man who forced British Raj with a weapon of non-violence to leave the country was new to the world. His principles are still alive and followed around the world. Many foundations have been working in this area of spreading his messages of non-violence to teach the people of the united world to live in peace and harmony on our shared planet.

‘Too many people are experimenting with war and violence. We need more people experimenting with peace and non-violence.’

Margaret Hepworth, May 2014

Founder/Director of The Gandhi Experiment

Mahatma on the Pitch is a book shows a different side of the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The game of cricket is a religion in India. Can anyone think that Gandhi had any relationship with cricket? The game ruling the hearts of the twenty-first-century India. Did Gandhi or his ideas make any impact on the game at the high tide of the national movement? The book tries to find the answers to these quirky questions.

Why should you read this book? The subject is not new. You will find hundreds of books written on Gandhi by best biographers around the world. This book tries to explore a different side of a man whose connection with cricket seems as remote as Gandhi’s tryst with cricket. It is hard to cross in mind of any relationship between the two. The author is one of that curious mind tried to find the answer to the same. Read to know more about the relation between cricket and the Gandhi. It is one of its kinds you do not get to read every day.

Author Bio

Kausik Bandyopadhyay teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata. Formerly a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2010), and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2006-2009 and 2013-2015), he is also the Editor of Soccer and Society.

Bandyopadhyay has authored and edited several books. His most recent works include Sport, Culture and Nation (2012), Perspective from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket (2015); Bangladesh Playing: Sport, Culture, Nation (2012); and Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 (2011).

Here is a book on Gandhian Principles The Gandhi Experiment

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The Future of Indian Economy

01 Tuesday Aug 2017

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image005.jpgEditor – Yashwant Sinha and Vinay K. Srivastava

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 376

Publisher – Rupa Publications

Economists say that if India won its political Independence in 1947, it won its economic independence in 1991. India faced a serious economic crisis in that year. It all started in July 1991 with a major fall down of the economy resulted in introducing trend of privatization and globalization. The book discusses the tumultuous year of 1991 and reforms brought after to free domestic economy.

The book is divided into three parts – Revisiting Pre- And Post-Liberalization India – discusses the economic crisis of 1991 and the reforms introduced. Fiscal, Budgetary and Capital Market Reforms – discusses the policies, issues, and challenges faced by the country and suggestive measures. Public Sector Enterprises and Disinvestment – reforms and disinvestment in the public sector, government policies and trade policies.

The book has essays discussing the achievements and failures and corrective measures needed. The essays are contributed by distinguished authors from politics, government, academia, economists, civil servant, analysts, such as C.Rangarajan – former governor of RBI and held several key positions, U.K. Sinha – Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Rajat Kathuria – Director and Chief Executive at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi.

It’s been more than twenty-five years since July 1991, when economic liberalization began in India. The year 1991 is important in regard to the history of Indian economy. India faced a serious economic challenge that brings reforms that changed Indian markets and the financial sector in the country. The book is a detailed analysis of reforms, policies, shortcomings, and challenges ahead. The book is an excellent and interesting read for the economists, journalists, students, concerned citizens and one who like to be well informed.

Author’s Bio

Yashwant Sinha is a veteran politician and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is credited with preparing the blueprint for the 1991 economic reform of India as part of his Union Budget.

Sinha taught political science at the University of Patna till 1960 before he joined the Indian Administrative Service. In 1984, he resigned from the service and joined politics as a member of the Janata Party. He worked as the Union Minister of Finance from November 1990 to June 1991 in Chandra Shekhar’s Cabinet. He later joined the BJP and became its national spokesperson in 1996. He served as the Union Minister of Finance (1998-2002) and External Affairs (2002-04).

Vinay K. Srivastava is presently working as Dean and Associate Professor, Raffles University, Neemrana. He is the author of Privatisation of Public Enterprises in India (2007) and is the editor of Public Enterprises and Changing Scenario (2014). With 16 years of experience in academic, Srivastava has published more than 65 articles in various journals, magazines, and newspaper. He is the founder and managing editor of Arash: A journal of ISMDR and Raffles Business Review.

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The Tree with a Thousand Apples

08 Thursday Jun 2017

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Sanchit.jpgAuthor – Sanchit Gupta

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 282

Publisher – Niyogi Books

‘If a criminal was once a saint and a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal and who is the saint?’

The tree with a Thousand Apples

‘The tree with a Thousand Apples’, a hypnotic and enthralling tale is a story of three childhood friends Bilal Ahanager, Safeena Malik and Deewan Bhat. Inspired by true events this story comes from the turbulent place they called paradise becomes a battlefield and they are forced to choose a side.

Bilal, Safeena, and Deewan grow up in an atmosphere of peace and amity surrounded by lush mountains, serene lakes, and colorful bed of flowers and vegetations everywhere they eye in Srinagar, Kashmir until one night which changes everything for once and for all and forever. Deewan left with no other option to flee from his home abandoning his friends and his place. Safeena’s mother paid the price to give refuge to a neighbor in her home and Bilal has to walk the path from where there is no turning back and the path itself took him nowhere.

Twenty years later, destiny brings them together once again. But, they are no longer the same Bilal, Safeena, and Deewan they used to be. Will they stand together this time or time separate them once again? Will the three friends now choose to become sinful criminals or pacifist saints?

In the backdrop of the books is the valley of Kashmir, this book is a work of fiction but I can say there is a truth hidden behind the veil of fiction after reading many non-fictional books on tormented Kashmir in recent past.

The book is a must read and must reach to the wider audience. The book is a rollercoaster ride and the ending will take you by surprise. It is a fight of demons of mind and angels of heart. It is one of those books you want to keep reading to see what will happen next and you can’t foretell what will come next. A surprise package quiver you from inside out. A must not miss book.

Author Bio

Sanchit Gupta began his career as a copywriter with an advertising agency in Mumbai. He went on to co-found his own theater group, worked as a freelance film screenwriter and as executive producer-fiction for a leading television network. He worked for All India Radio as a talk show host and regularly features in poetry recitals at Prithvi Café, Mumbai. This is his debut novel.

His works explore his fascination for global cultures, societal structures, vagaries of the world and the human mind. Know more about him and his work at sanchitgupta.in.

You can reach to him at Twitter@sanchit421

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