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Book Review: The Curse of Mohen jo Daro

I have always been a geek for historical and mythological fiction. And i have always been curious to know more and more about the civilisation that was more advanced than their time. This is the reason i chose this book. The story develops simultaneously, present day and then 3971 BC Mohenjodaaro. Not much is known about that civilisation as the excavation has yet to uncover the major part but still i enjoyed the writers fiction knitted around the limited knowledge of that time.  So i will tell something that i liked and disliked about the mohenjodaaro fiction. I disliked specially the calnning process, i found it particularly very cruel. It knowingly or unknowingly describes the ugly caste system that exists in India. How certain people based on their caste consider themselves more superior and deserving. But it holds true picture to some extent. I particularly liked the dialogue between Jaya and Rafe when the unclanneds rebel. Both of them right in their own place. That part was
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Book Review : Funny Side Up By Ruskin Bond!

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This is my second book by Ruskin Bond. This book is basically a collection of stories from daily happenings of Ruskin Bond. A detailed description of when he wakes up, what he does after he wakes up, his afternoon routine, his evening walks, in short about his daily routine in general. He shares his experience by transitioning from the Dehra of his childhood versus Dehra now. He talks about what he loved while growing up. There are so many characters that made an impact on his life. His little experiences which he remembers precisely even after so many years are kind of funny to read. Ruskins story of his pet and his adventures rather misadventures with uncle ken are presented as short stories in the book and are light hearted to read. There is nothing much you can find in the book. No story or biography or anything just little life experiences. Its just nothing about nothing! 2.5 stars out of 5!
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Book Review : My not so perfect life

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This is my 3 rd Sophie Kinsella book after   Confession of a Shopaholic and Remember me. Remember me I remember was pretty good ;) (pun intented) So My not so perfect life is a story of a 26 year old having a mind of 16 year old until she is fired! Katie is obsessed with London and the obsession is unhealthy to an extent where she has to change her name to fit in, changes her accent and hides from people about her back ground all because of the fear of being judged! She tires to make cool (rich) friends and then when she goes out with those friends to expensive places she doesn’t even   have money to buy her own food. I mean what is the point of pretending so much where you get into a situation where people mistake you as a begger? Instead of performing well in the office all she wants is to be cool and fit in so she withholds her opinions and then complains when she gets fired! After being fired her life changes and she helps her parents build a business from s
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Book Review : Pralay The Great Deluge

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Pralay is squeal of Hrappa, the curse of blood river. The thrill of the first book continues in the second and the story is as gripping as ever, infact it gets better. 1700 BCE The Surya Devta after being tortured and skinned alive is sent to dungeons to die, returns for vengeance and the rage in him to destroy the whole of Harappa is chilling. The Gods are angrier than ever with the sins of the people of Harappa and the end is near. Manu meets a mysterious ocean man at the Black Temple, who seems to be   the most divine person on earth. This mysterious man is supposed to help Manu through “THE PRALAY”. 2017 Vidhyut betrayed and almost killed by his most trusted best friend is recovering while Vidhyuts   great grand father revels the secret of the curse of the blood line. Now the most powerful aghori of Banaras is trying to kill Vidyut because of a new world order. So what is this new world order and who is giving them? This book deals with so many Human emotions. How
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Book Review : Harappa, curse of the blood river.

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Harappa, curse of the blood river is a story which moves simultaneously between 1700 BC and 2017 AD. Its 2017 AD Vidhyut shashtri   running a successful tech start up gets a call in the middle of the night to reach Banaras for his great grandfather is not in good health. Vidhyut has always known the he was special but a whole new secret was waiting to unfold in Banaras that vidhyut had no idea about. In Banaras Vidhyuts great grandfather the matthadesh tries to explain Vidhyut what makes him and his blood line so special. Vidhyut   is having trouble understanding and absorbing all these information about his blood line and curse on the blood line while   some people are desperately   trying to kill Vidhyut. 1700 BCE Vivasvan Purohit is going to be named as a chief priest of Harappa but gets accused of a murder and put in dungeons. On one hand Harappa is in great danger of enormous flood and on other someone very cunning is planning to take on Harappa by destroying the most pow
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Book Review : Coming up next!

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Okay so this book is about a women named Katie in her 40s getting sacked from a show on which she has been working on for more than 10 years. From there things pretty much goes down in Katies life! Suddenly everything in her life seems to go wrong and that is when the book also starts to go wrong. This book literally goes nowhere till 100th page. Just Katie and her sad little life, who instead dealing with her issues choses to get over drunk everytime and ruin things more. Seriously this got so irritating after a point that i started skipping pages. There are so many characters and they seem to keep coming up out of no where. Most of them were unnecessary. And there is no built up of story either. Its just Katie being drunk and ruining things and for other characters it just feels like they are all writing their personal diary at the end of the day! I really enjoy reading a lot but with this book i just wanted this to end as soon as possible. If you really a
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Book Review : Retire Young Retire Rich

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Retire young retire rich is a 5 th book in the series of Rich Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Robert in this book shares his journey of retiring very rich at an age of just 47! He speaks about his real life experiences and struggles and how he came through without losing his motivation. My main motive to pick up this book was to learn something new from this book. Not exactly retiring thing but getting rich thing. After reading this whole book I realized that I knew most of the points put forward in this book. Being a graduate in finance degree and currently working with futures and options I knew everything what Richard was trying to say. So the main crux of the book is to motivate the readers to follow their dream of becoming rich by starting   their own business. Job security, according to the author is not security but the biggest risk. I summarized few points   from the book to narrow it down to give the idea as a whole.      Always remember the risks of starting a n
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