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I Want to go to Haldwani and Other Poems Review

A personal Foreword by Santosh Bakaya praising Satbir Chadha’s profound poetry collection I Want to go to Haldwani and Other Poems, highlighting their connection through grief and featuring excerpts from poems addressing nature, mortality, feminism, and spirituality.

The metamorphoses of a common man into a living God is thrilling and enthralling experience.
Book Review – The Immortals of Meluha
The narration is captivating. The revelations and suspense leave you amazed when they unfold in layers revealing new mysteries and adding to your shock every now and then. Though the language reflects amateurishness but captivating plot makes up it.
Done With Men is funny and hilarious read!
Done With Men – Light, Crispy & Hilarious
Kairavi has everything. An enviable job, friends and parties! Except that she is jinxed in the matters of love!
It’s goodie-goodie story which revolves solely around the pretty Pia.
Soul Seekers – Love, Lost and Found
Soul Seekers is the story of Pia, a pretty girl, whose life transverses through many twists and turns before she finally finds her soul mate.
Rahul Dravid along with Sanjay Manjrekar released Unmukt Chand’s book “The Sky Is The Limit – My Journey To The World Cup”
The Sky Is The Limit: Unmukt Chand Is An Inspiration
I would like to share the unique specialty of Unmukt Chand's “The Sky Is The Limit” which has given me new insights about the importance of the role of mentors and coaches. Unmukt Bhaiyya received a lot of support from his mentors and coaches who invested a lot of time and hard work in shaping and making him achieve success on the cricket pitch.
"It is not unbridled manipulation, naked ambition or overpowering obsession that can bring happiness."
Mohini: The Implosion Of The Brightest Star
By the time dream transforms into obsession, she is ready to pay any price, make any compromise, try any trick and tame any limit so that she can become the shiniest star in the show world.
Blood Pressure Down: Making BP Control Easy, Drug-free and Healthy
Blood Pressure Down: Making BP Control Easy, Drug-free and Healthy
Blood Pressure Down book offers effective and easy-to-follow checklists and dietary plans that will help you keep a check on your blood pressure.
Dravid made a special mention of Unmukt’s “underlying respect” towards senior players as the latter was insisting on calling Dravid “Sir”.
Look After Your Runs And Life Will Look After Itself: Rahul Dravid’s Advice To Unmukt
Rahul Dravid and Sanjay Manjrekar released Unmukt Chand's book “The Sky Is The Limit – My Journey To The World Cup”
"The Sky Is The Limit - My Journey To The World Cup" is the new book by cricketer Unmukt Chand, to be launched on November 30
My Journey To The World Cup: Unmukt Chand’s New Book To Be Launched Nov 30
“The Sky Is The Limit – My Journey to the World Cup”, Unmukt Chand’s new book chronicles his rise as a cricketer, from childhood to the World Cup victory.
Book Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
Book Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. The title is derived from the fictional guidebook of the same name, which is an eccentric electronic encyclopedia featured in the book.
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Book Review: Can Love Happen Twice?
Though the book is a literary failure, college students, lovers and teenagers would love it like anything as they would be able to associate them with the protagonist.
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Book Review: I Too Had a Love Story
It is the first and the best book of Ravinder Singh, which made him the darling of the millions and established him as India’s most popular romance writer. If you love to read mushy romance, this book is definitely for you.
Lucid with Tongue In Cheek Humour: Love, Films and Rock n Roll!
Lucid with Tongue In Cheek Humour: Love, Films and Rock n Roll!
Swayam Ganguly's first novel Love, Films and Rock n Roll! is a story of three young men who are travelling on a train from Jamshedpur to Kolkata.
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Love, Films and Rock n Roll: Humorous, Satirical, Nostalgic Youth Connect
Love, Films and Rock 'n' Roll! is contemporary and has a sense of nostalgia for the GenY - 1 type of crowd.
Darjeeling is incomplete without its world famous toy train
The Complete Adventures of Feluda
The stories of Feluda are very interesting and action-packed. This book is a favorite book for teenagers like reading detective and mysterious stories.
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
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Eleven Minutes
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho sails smooth like a stream in plains, a candle in calm weather and a kite in favorable wind.
Like it Happened Yesterday by Ravinder Singh Buy from Amazon
Like it Happened Yesterday
The author has just picked some episodes from his or others’ childhood and penned them down in worst possible English for the sake of writing a novel.
Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Overall it’s a nice, compelling and eye-opener read albeit I am not sure if it really deserved a Man Booker.
The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi
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Book Review – The Oath of the Vayuputras
Book review - Mysteries are unearthed, the Evil is revealed in The Oath of the Vayuputras.
The narration is lyrical which moves like a motion picture in front of eyes.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a soul-shaking saga of sobs and sorrows with a happy but tear-soaked climax.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies: Psychological Insights
Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000. A review by Paul Sanjoy Gonsalves
A Poetess and Her Innermost Being
A Poetess and Her Innermost Being
One would be looking forward to more poems from Mary Herbert in future. She has a fertile pen, capable of highlighting the sensitivity of nature and the tribulations of our time. A pen, many would like to possess.
Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
Reminiscences of the Silent Chanakya
Rao's alter ego, Anand, is born into a 'middle middle class' family in a sleepy hamlet of Afrozabad state of princely India.
A story of intense love, passion and loneliness by Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
Book review of Vikram Seth's An Equal Music by Alokparna Das.