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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

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

Book Review: The Golden Book of Holy Vedas by A.A Macdonell

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The history of Indian literature has been very rich, with so many different languages and scholars in India . Vedas, Upanishads, the epic sagas of Ramayan and Mahabhart are the part of Indian literary heritage . The Golden Book of Holy Vedas primarily explains Rig veda. There are manily 4 Vedas, Rig Veda being the oldest. Rig veda is basically a collection of Hymns in Sanskrit. Hymns were passed down orally earlier from generation to generation, it was written much later with the development of the languages. Rig Veda worships the strong forces of Nature. Sun, Earth, Wind, Fire etc   are considered gods in Rig veda. Every source of energy that helped human lives to survive is depicted as god in Rig veda. The author   Macdonells has written a systematically organized book.The book starts with a detailed history of when the Vedas originated, How it developed and what significance it holds. Every god is given a brief introduction in the book along with their powers. A pictur

Book review: Ladies coupe by Anita Nair

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This book revolves around a very hot topic “Feminism”. It is a story of a single woman in her 40s. Akhila has always been a good daughter, good sister, a good woman all her life. After the death of her father she becomes the man of the house. She starts earning at a small age of 19!  When her siblings come of age one by one they all get married totally forgetting about Akhila. They still try to control Akhilas life by saying she needs to take the permission of the man of the house even though she is an independent woman who has held her family together. She starts thinking is she really lonely and unhappy? Does a woman really need a man to make her life complete? Fed up of all the interferences in her life and to find all her answers she sets out on an adventure trip alone with a one way ticket to Kanyakumari. She meets 5 more women in her ladies coupe. One by one she listens to every persons story while thinking back on her own life. Life stories one coming from

Air India : Privatization good or bad!

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  Recently government has announced to privatise loss making Air India. Arun Jaitely in this years budget mentioned the target of getting 80,000 crore from divestment this year. Air india is the priority right now. The main plan is to divest 76% and keep the remaining 24% under their control. History Air India was created by JRD Tata before independence. It was origanlly named as Tata Airlines but after getting the approval of international routes the name changed to Air India. After Independence the government took over Air India. And in 1953 Divided it into 2 separate air lines 1 Air India-International. 2 Indian Air Lines- Domestic Both the companies were profit making companies till 2000. During the NDA government in 2000 initiatives to divest air india was taken but was not materialized due to several reason as well as due to strong disapproval by opposition. During 2007 UPA government took a huge step and merged Air India and Indian air lines. Afte

Book Review : Inspite of the gods by Edward Luce

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More than 400 pages on everything thing about INDIA It Covers the modern emerging India as a whole From the very beginning their is a Precise comparison between pre economic reforms of india and post economic reforms of india Nehru and Gandhi got all the mentions leaving the other freedom fighters!  But Sardar vallabh bhai patel got no mention in the book in building of new india after independence. Stating the facts about why india failed as a nation post independence. Accurate description of the rural india and urban poor india! Rural development starts with giving the farmers right The slow moving legal system (bdw did you guys know the Back log of cases would take approximately 300 years to complete) Caste issues poor treatment of the backward class and changing of their caste to christianity from lower caste Hilarious thougts of a wellknown politician on Yadav and mahars and brahmins and his theory of the gods they came from. this book contains the chilling incident