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Nautanki Diaries

10 Saturday Mar 2018

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image016 (1).jpgAuthor – Dominic Franks

Rating – 5/5 stars

Number of Pages – 272

Publisher – Rupa Publications

Nautanki Diaries is a journey of dream and endurance author dreamed much before he actually had undertaken and hit the road in 2010. Inspired by his teacher who had gone on a similar yatra years ago. His experience helped him to stay put and push his limits to the edge of breaking down.

He explored his country from journey begins from Bengaluru to New Delhi to reach in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The author takes you on a journey of twenty-two days on a cycle describing the India he found reckon with conversations he has along the way.

Nautanki Diaries is a love story of a man and his ‘doodhwalla’ bicycle. Nautanki has her own tantrum and she is the best travel partner and a companion one would think of. She worthy to be trusted and takes good care of her rider not creating much ruckus when treated with love and care; regular service and oiling of her parts.

The time I started the book, I fell in love with Nautanki. She looks like the best companion Dominic can ever think he had. She is his travel partner and a girl-friend he trusted with his life.

The writing is at its best. One could not think of a better-written travelogue than this one. This is one of the best-written non-fiction travel diaries and I will like to read it again. It is a well-crafted smooth read with a quirky humor and candor. I like every inch of it and recommend to every reader wants to read something refreshingly new.

Author Bio

Dominic Franks graduated from Bangalore Medical College. His passion for sports led him to give up his career in medicine and join a premier sports channel. In September 2010, he decided to go on a cross-country bicycle journey from Bengaluru to New Delhi to witness the Commonwealth Games. It’s Not About the Cycle – winner of Best Adventure Film at the 2017 Toronto Beaches Film Festival – stars Nautanki, his bicycle, the central character of Nautanki Diaries.

Currently, he is working on producing his first documentary feature about human-animal relationships.

When not working to travel, or traveling on works, Franks holes up in Bengaluru where he lives, laughs and loves.

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The healing Paths of Fife

04 Thursday May 2017

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34916691Author – Diana Jackson

Rating – 4/5 stars

Number of Pages – 184

Publisher – Eventispress

‘The Healing Paths of Fife’ is a memoir of Diana Jackson. A travel path full of fantasy encounters. She met significant strangers while walking the coastal paths of Fife and had equally special and strange experiences and adventures. Some are spooky and some are pleasant. Every new day of Diana’s life is full of exciting adventures and with every day she understands what the time demands her to do. The Path proved to be a healing and self-discovering.

Diana Jackson was happily redundant from her lifelong teaching job. She has to relocate with her husband whose job is transferred to Fife from Bedfordshire. She met some interesting and strange people while walking and discovering her new place and settling down in her new life. She made new friends which she met by fate and these people help in discovering her path in Fife and in her life. She was fortunate to discover a sense of peace.

After relocation, she had plenty of time in her hand and need to think which path she wants to travel next. Her experience of self-discovery and finding her calling might help you with some of the challenges you face in your life and finding peace like Diana.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part tells the story of her relocation and settling down in her new life and traveling the healing and rejuvenating paths of Fife. The second path tells the beginning of the new life of Diana after she and her husband threw herself in the community life of Fife.

The story is a memoir with elements of fantasy. The book is a travel diary and a true account of Diana’s life after relocating and settling down in her new life with her husband in Fife.

Visit the beautiful and mesmerizing coastal paths of Fife with Diana.

Author Bio

Diana Jackson from Bedfordshire relocated to Fife, Scotland with her husband. Her aim for 2016 has been to settle into their new life. In 2017, she is back writing again with her new book ‘The healing Paths of Fife – A Fantasy memoir. Other works of Diana – The Riduna Series, historical fiction set in the Victorian era through to the early 20th century. ‘Murder, Now and Then,’ was inspired by an unsolved murder back in 1919 in the heart of Mid Bedfordshire. Diana has also compiled a memoir of a Norman Campbell ‘The Life and Demise of Norman Campbell’.

You can reach her to diana@dianamaryjackson.co.uk

Blog her on dianamj.wordpress.com or Tweet @riduna

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Battlefields and Paradise

30 Monday Jan 2017

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33641535.jpgAuthor – Sabir Hussain

Rating – 4/5 stars

Number of Pages – 294

Publisher – Westland Books

Battlefield and Paradise is a travelogue of Sabir Hussain who has a long standing in journalism and the book is his debut novel.

The book illustrates his journey of four weeks, he went on alone in May-June 2013 from his resident place Delhi to Ladakh with his partner of past travels; his 150cc Fiero bike. It is not his first time he went on something like this and probably not his last. It is his long pending dream to scale to the northern most point in India and that dream he brings in reality in 2013.

The book is his journey of 3200 kilometers to Ladakh and back to delhi. The route he chalked out for his travel take him through Ambala, Jalandhar, Pathankot, Jammu, Rajouri, Shopian, Srinagar, Sonamarg and then to Ladakh, to touch Turtuk; northern most point on the line of control (LOC) with Pakistan. He choose to travel in may under scorching heat only because during this time the Zoji La Pass which links Kashmir to Ladakh is thrown open for traffic by the Indian Army which saves a considerable amount of his time.

The language is simple and connecting. He compounds the scenic small towns on the border, a little chat with the local people who he met on his journey. He does not put unnecessary drama to climb the readership charts. His attempt will give the readers a good read. It is not a story; it’s a journey of a life time experience which he shall cherish for rest of his life.

Colorful Notion- The Roadtrippers 1.0

27 Sunday Nov 2016

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32486101Author – Mohit Goyal

Rating – ****

Language – English

Number of Pages – 200

Have you ever been on a road trip or ever dreamed of being on one. This book offers you an experience that you wished you may have. It is a new age story filled with fun, adventure, love.

A travelogue of two childhood friends and a girl (girlfriend of one of the boys) went on a life changing experience to cover twenty-five spots to length and breadth of India for three month. Abhay aka Ab after many years of his parents divorce still figuring out why his parents took the step and not like any other parents who live together. Shashank aka Sasha is a great time foody and food is always in his mind, he wants to open a sweet shop but afraid. Unnati aka Unns is girlfriend of Sasha, and the foremost factor that she was considered for the trip.

The three musketeers began their journey from Delhi and ended at Taj Mahal. The story is not about how to take a road trip and which spots to cover. It is about once in a life time experience they have been planning from long. They have planned an adventure road trip but not all that happened to then on journey. They came back as a changed person and more involved in life and at peace.

Story is of three months of young Twenty-five year old three friends who went on for some adventure and finding the answers of their life. The story has some pinch of Bollywood masala and do not expect detailed history of twenty-five spots. Its not about the Spots, its about the three travellors.