Reviews on "Another Tale of Two Cities"

Review Point: 3.5 out of 5

Author: Ezhuth Aani

Publisher: Inspire India

Genre: Fiction/Historical

ISBN: 978-93-85783-86-9

Page Count: 303

Edition: First, 2016

Platform

Story is knitted in the historical plot of 15th century. Adithya a messenger of Angkor empire is on a mission to find a person who can save the dynasty. Travelling thousands of kilometres, he reaches dense forests of China where he meets Gnani, who is known to all past and present of all dynasties. Here, Adithya also meets his daughter Mandagini and feels love for her. Getting permission from him, he continues to his journey and comes to know more about Buddhism. On the other hand, Mahendra another warrior from Angkor trapped into empire of Hongxi Emperor is compelled to conceive with queen. Will Mahendra be able to escape from the place? Is there any link between Mahendra and Adithya? What's hidden in the hills and forests of South India and Sri Lanka? Will they be able to save their dynasty? How will Gnani help them? To know, go through the Another Tale of Two Cities.

Strength of the Book

Amazing plot is set with well-defined terminology. Story from the very first page covers the interest of readers and rises their beat with journey of Adithya. A deep knowledge of Buddhism is included which drags the attention of readers toward the religion. Character justification impacts the narration. The unique way of present things is added which makes author a distinguished narrator. Not only Buddhism but also dynasties of 15th centuries are depicted in quite detail which let the readers to have glance of history in a beautiful manner. It seems author has researched the topics well and focused on Angkor after perfect matter of study. Revealing each and everything and beautifying the places and characters is unbeatable.

Weakness of the Book

At mid of first and second part, story leaves the interest. Scenario of Hongxi Emperor and situation of Mahendra there seems quite illogical. At the very beginning, it does not seem that the things are going on in past.

Conclusion

It is hard to find a book which is actually in other language and then comes in other language with this amazing taste. Amazing translation (Prof Parvati Vasudev and Mr Anandan Kasinathan) is done for this book. Author has put his best to create the scenario in reality. This could be more if not included the love scenario with the taste of Mandagini. The way author has included things step-by-step makes the novel theme strong with each page turn. There are only few writers in India (i.e. Anand Neelkanthan, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Shreyas Bhave) who make a space for themselves with their writing and here Author Ezhuth (Ananthakumarasamy Ramanathan) has made milestone of his name. Holding a world inside, this book shows the maturity level of writing of any author. Besides, I personally believe that to write such books is the biggest challenge.

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नोटगिरी

जब से देश में नोट जाली हो गये !

मेरे शहर में अमीरों के मकान खाली  गये !!

रुतबा था जिनका दुनिया में हर चौखट पर 

आज वही कुछ चोर तो कुछ मवाली हो गये !!

तिनके तिनके को भटक रहे अब अपना ही जनाज़ा ले कर 

इज़्ज़त वाले लोग समाज़ में अब एक गाली हो गये !!

बढ़ रही है दिलों की धड़कन तेज़ रफ़्तार से 

सर्वगुण संपन्न भी एक टूटी डाली हो गये !!

ये कैसी शब है हर जगह मायूसी 

वो लोग और थे जो किन्नरों की ताली हो गये !!

सुन्न से पड़े हैं अब चुपचाप घर के किसी कोने में 

चंद लम्हो में सब एक गरीब की थाली हो गये !!

जो सुना करते थे संगीत को पैमाने में उतार कर

वो आज महफ़िलों में बस एक क़व्वाली हो गये !!

ना पूछ मुझसे कमल तू गरीबी का आलम 

महलों में रहने वाले तो अब रुदाली हो गये !!

- कमल पनेरू

Diwali aa rhi hai

Suna hai Diwali aa rhi hai
Kisi ke ghar to kisi ki dukaane sajne lagi hain
Koi gumsum ab bhi baitha hai ek roti ki talaash me
Suna hai Diwali aa rhi hai
Koi khus hai naye kapdo aur uphaar se
Koi pet bharne ki umeed lagaye baitha h is tyohar se
Suna hai Lakshmi ghar ghar aaegi
Footpath par sone wala wo ab bhi pareshan hai
mera to ghar hi nahi, Laxmi kaise aaegi
Suna hai Diwali aa rahi hai
Haan kuch lights laga di hain ghar k bahar
Dikhawa bhi to jaruri hai
Saaf safai me kuch almari me 500 rs bhi mile hain
Inse bhagwan ko kharidna hai bazar me
Un murtiyo par thoda sa mol bhav bhi to karna hai
Suna hai Diwali aa rahi hai
Khus hai dil mithai aur khusi bhar jaega is ehsaas me
Koi gumsum ab bhi baitha hai ek roti ki talaash me
Haan is bar patakhe nahi jalaaunga
almari wale 500 rs se gareeb ko khana jarur khilaunga
taki wo bhi keh sake
suna hai Diwali aa rahi hai

- (c) Kamal Paneru


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Reviews on "A Road Not Traveled"

Review Point: 3.5 out of 5

Author: J. Alchem
Publisher: StoryMirror
Genre: Fiction

Page Count: 198

Edition: First, 2016

Platform

Book is about three faces motivational speaker Niorgast Stinvins, political advisor Doilin Flenk and journalist Bakintin Lenit working together for a mission. All things begin when one day Niorgast receives an unknown call to be present at a specific place. There, he meet with mind-turner software engineer Albormi Menhtis. Anbormi presents his idea to unit the world as one country. Skipping at first, all get motivated by his words and do proceed their work for it. Meanwhile, they work together firstly to manage the problems of Niorgast's country and then spread their hands. Will they be able to accomplish their mission? What hurdles would they face? Will government of their countries support their idea? What plans would they make for their mission? Why they choose to work for this mission? To know, go through the ride of A Road Not Traveled.

Strength of the Book

Quite impressive platform having this book is a way to have peace in the entire world. Connecting all professionals people at one place and tiding them with the single thread of depiction, novel goes well with really effective dialogues. Way of centralising on one person while describing all the other things, keeping on track, is amazing. Each and every turn is connected and goes very step by step. Buttered with the good way of narration, story turns crispy with short stanzas by character Albormi Menhtis. Writer has put more effort to make the done and doing appearing real. The way story is and the way shock has given to readers make it outstanding narration. God is with us is shown well with the example of Himalaya.

Weakness of the Book

At many places, writer diverts from the topic. Also, weak narration is presented after the dialogues at couple of pages. Bit grammatical issues along with mixture of US English and British English is also presented. Writer makes confuse readers describing other things in other manner. The pace and the tone of novel mismatches. Many times, it seems, story is not fictional and writer has introduced academic way. In between, story drops the interest and goes as pale. The last chapter is always strength of any narration but it goes quite simple as all the stuff is concluded up to the previous one.

Conclusion

At first attempt, to present such thing is amazing and beyond appreciation. Grasping title with outstanding story line, this book is a must read. Giving the unique and quite different idea of uniting the entire world under one roof is impressive. The way image of Albormi Menhtis is presented is best to define a motivational character and its effect. Yes! there are thousands of problems people are suffering from and many of them are just because of borders. Writer has insisted this thing quite well and provided better solution with an example of exchanging $1 with $1 gives $1 but exchanging 1 thought gives 375 ideas. Good ending is given to the story. Cover page really looks good and suits perfectly to the theme. Those who seek story other than love can have this bite of perfection. Author secure a place in the bookshelves of readers for his book.

Review Point

3.5 out of 5

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Interview With Authoress Priyanka Bansal

Tell something about social-media-away Priyanka?

The real me—a quiet person. I don’t speak much but prefer listening what others have to say. A deep thinker, observer and social gatherings is a big no. In short, you can call me an introvert who prefers doing her work her own way and encourages no interferences. You could simply say, no faking out with people.

Many of us have read your post on Facebook. All your thoughts are quite impressive. What’s the reason behind these thoughts?

Thanks much for such a compliment.

Yes, people tell me about my posts that they love all. Every one passes through a phase that changes (him) her completely. I think, I’ve been through such a phase that we all call, when life happens, and I, suddenly, grew up as matured.

But at the same time, the kid within me is still alive. If you sit with me just for 10 minutes, I promise you’d literally die laughing. Not forgetting to mention, this is inherited from late maternal grandfather. He was my backbone. I still get wet eyes whenever I think of him.

To feel his presence, I, many a times, curl myself in his old blanket, no matter what kind of weather it is. It heals my soul.

Please tell something in brief about all your three books. How they are correlated and distinguished?

Until the date on web stores, only two books have come.

Hindi poetry collection जिंदगी की कलम से  is a co-authored book with other 3 extremely good poets. I take all three of them as my seniors.

All of us—Ankit Gupta, Diwakar Pokhriyal and none other than Neelam Ma’am (Neelam Saxena Chandra)—picked up different topics to write upon.

The second book A Little More than Love is my solo work—a collection of love stories.

Thirteen love stories, redefining love. Each story is unique and none of it is a typical perfect couple story. From the young intense love of sixteen’s to the mid-aged couple’s love, reader will find all here. For more to know, you need to go through it. It’s hard to me to sum-up my work in my words.

The third book (title to be revealed) is again my solo work of 100 Hindi poems. It is near completion and would be out in a month or so.

An author never wants to have errors in his/her book. You could see some printing mistakes too in your English language novel were there. How did you manage the criticised phase of review for your book?

I always say editing is a big task—more than writing—and I respect editors from the core of my heart. All of us are living a hectic life and editors are humans too. Why isn’t allowed for them to make a few mistakes?

To err is to human.

Yes, it feels awful to see mistakes especially when readers point it out, but I keep things simple.

While writing my own novel if I can make mistakes in spite of being emotionally attached to it and feel the need to hire an editor for it, the job of an editor is just professional.

I do tell them where they failed in their work. But you know, being polite is not a tough job and I follow it.

From a reader’s point of view, I thanked all those who pointed out mistakes and promised them to give them an error free book next time.

Being an active mother and a wife, how you take out time for writing?

Yes, that is a tough job. Days are for family but mid nights for writers. When I was writing stories for my English work, my laptop broke down and out of 45k words in the book, at least 20k were typed on Tablet. It’s all about your passion. Many a times I survived only meals once a day. For your passion, you can’t blame time, you have to take it out anyhow.

Is there any secret for your readers you’d like to reveal?

I don’t think there’s any. I hope you all know that I’m face reader, signature reading expert and can sense vibes. I don’t know from where did I get it, but I understand human nature to a great extent and act accordingly. I see in a person’s eyes and can tell whether he or she is lying.

And to share something from book, one of the stories is my real life story. You need to figure out which one!

Who are your favorite authors/authoresses and why?

I don’t read much. Whatever and whosoever touches my soul is my favorite, no matter he/she is a new bee or a bestseller. I don’t follow tags. I follow emotions.

Currently (July 2016), I’m reading a Hindi poetry collection of Anulata Raj Nayar and loving it. The depth in the poems has shaken me deeply.

Tell few titles that you admire for such work that touched your heart and soul?

Recently, I’ve opened a small library at my place without any big names on list. But each book is such that you won’t get bored even after reading it a number of times. I pick up any book at any hour and start reading. 

What’s your thinking behind the tag of bestselling for a novel?

The bestselling thing is a business these days, but as I told earlier, I don’t run after it. Unless a book is read by thousands of readers without the author himself asking for any ratings or reviews, or buying, it isn’t a bestseller in my terms.

If we keep money factor aside, what have you earned and lost in this story and poem writing?

Two words

Respect and recognition

Would you like to suggest something to budding authors?

I’m still a learner and don’t find myself at a position that I should be giving any suggestions, still, unless your write up connects to a soul, it’s just a collection of words.

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जिंदगी की कलम से  A Little More than Love

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Reviews on "Gian Kumar Series"

 

Author: Gian Kumar

Book Type: Series
Genre: Non-fiction / Spiritual
Publisher: Celestial Books, an imprint of Leadstart Publishing
Year: 2015
Edition: First

Glance of Gian Kumar Series

Spread over the breath of spirituality, the series of Gian Kumar is unique collection of its type. Touching the depth of sea and heights of sky, this series revolves around the human inside human, that is God. Projected is a different manner with eye catchy titles, this series let people what in actual they are, what they need, what are their real desires, what are their aim of life and why they are sent on earth by that almighty. Collection of different worlds simultaneously in these three creations, this series is admirable for its work till the end and does not leave any place for being forgotten.

Book 1

Title: Know Thyself

Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-93-81836-87-3
Page Count: 336

This book is the collection of knowledge what a man should have about himself. Beginning step by step and then coming on the main theme to let readers know the actual depth of spirituality, this book talks about who The God is, what is the actual meaning of life, what is spiritualism and then consciousness. Author differentiates things which seem correlated in this world of mesh. In this running age of life, we surely are skipping own originality. Author lets readers to know how to control our mind as we want not what we be as mind wants, how body, mind and spirit remain together but are quite far away from each other with their own existence and importance. In the same way, author makes sex, love and spirituality transparent keeping in different jar of visualization.  Money has been the need and more than expectation a one can obtain in one’s life. Author shades light on it too to keep readers learnt how to give up the affection of money and others.

Line from the Book -

My desire demands; comfort, sex and ego.
My intellect decides to reason.
My awareness cries for unconditional love.
My consciousness determines what I really want.

Thoughts are born of experience and knowledge of the past.
We discover, beyond our sensory perceptions, personal opinions and desires — a new dimension of creativity, intuitiveness and imagination.

Book 2

Title: Think from the Heat Love from the Mind

Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-93-81836-88-0
Page Count: 358

At very first, the books another entry in the arena of revenge and love type novel. But the title contains deep of what anyone is unable to realize without grasping fingers of almighty. Teaching tricks to live happily in this world, author brings his experience in lime-light with the shadow of spirituality. Author distinguishes science, religion and spirituality from each other and then sews these with the cord of need of a soul. He opens new door for people to know the truth of their existence and their desire in more specified way when talking about awareness, truth and knowledge about self. Far beyond the world, author introduces the concept of Fourth Dimension. Then, dual & non-dual existence of human and this universe in the frame of space is defined by him placing each thing in its certain place. Moreover, author ignites the flame of know-more inside readers while gaining the truth of their own having.

Lines from the Book -

It is space and just space in this space-less, timeless, limitless Universe. Only when you perceive space do you realize that you are her and there in dualities.
When you are emotional, you actions are impractical and prejudiced. When you are spontaneous, you actions are intuitive and imaginative.
It seems that truth, in our relative life, was born only after someone was caught lying.
Truth cannot be apprehended in a relative manner; it differs from one to another.

Book 3

Title: The Ultimate Reality

Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-93-81836-89-7
Page Count: 318

Sharply focusing to the pace of human life, this book correlates human what he is and what he should be. Being more practical in this book, author brings pace and sharpness in his way. Letting readers be engaged with his earlier two book sinking in the devotedness and way of life, author here puts forward his thoughts and experience about the well-being of human kind. He talks about quantum consciousness where he defines Brahman as the energy to drive the world. Defining physical, mental, social and spiritual alignment as art of living, author goes ahead and serves his readers the difference between reality and existence, with three stages of existence. Self-knowledge, awareness and centre of life the way writer has defined will make readers more engaged in themselves in their life further. At last, writer concludes himself, not ends, with the focus of centralization that youth as well as adult must go for. Away from the passion and enliven fake things, centralization and spirit of awareness are more precious for having mind peace.

Lines from the Book -

Do remember, whatever success or greatness we may achieve in life through fame or fortune, as long as our body, mind and spirit are not aligned, we are bound to feel lonely and discontended, even at the top.
Until this energy realizes fulfillment, the spirit or atman within keeps wandering in repeated cycles of birth and death until it reaches its origin, when it becomes one again.
The mind, with its dual characteristics, enjoys playing with us, separating everything in order to discriminate, choose and judge what it desires, until consciousness comes along within its limited space and time to reveal the identity of who we ultimately are.

Conclusion
Nothing could be better collection as it is. Gian Kumar has really put his real Gyan in his work. Focusing, the theme of human, decided by nature and God itself, this series has separately defined each and every aspect from the perspective of spirituality. The way, author has started every chapter with a saying is amazing, including that saying. Very simple English is used for narration. Knitted keeping the real world touched throughout, author has peacefully presented his thought with no arrogance of disinterest and avoidance. Gian Kumar series is of the finest creations over self realization and spirituality. This book does not end in these 1012 pages, but it begins actually at the end. It opens thousands of new door for readers to see things differently and positively knowing that the almighty is within us and will surely not lead us at wrong doing. Keeping trust on him, even not on him but a power that runs this entire universe and keeps it growing, will keep Gian Kumar’s readers remembering him with each passing moment of live. Author has sprouted his theories well and is able to secure his place in the heart of readers. When everyone is running for money, to bring such topics to read is really a daring task and then most important is presenting it in this beautiful manner. Last, not least, Gian Kumar has plenty of knowledge and I expect more books from his end in upcoming time as this series has cleared many of my own doubt about existence of universe as well as human life.

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- Kamal Paneru

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Reviews on "She: Ekla Cholo Re"

Sub-title: Ekla Cholo Re

Author: Dr Shayan Haq, Santosh Avvannavar
Edited by: Rajashree Ghosh
Publisher: NA

ISBN: NA

Genre: Fiction

Type: Novella

Page Count: 58

Platform

Set in the frame of Kolkata of the late twentieth century, story is about Raj and Kusum. Raj meets Kusum on highway and she narrates her life to him finding him a suitable and understanding person for the feeling she bearing in heart for years. She tells him how her father and mother distinguished her in nature as pretending boy and girl in the same body. Kusum’s mother used to see girl in her, while her father always saw boy in her and always insisted her to quit all girl’s habbit at once. Kusum faces the world bravely and let them know about her completely. Debu, her so called lover, becomes more close to her in her story of life. Meanwhile, Raj finds interest in her life more and feelings of sympathy and love for her grow in him. What happens next? Would he tell her his feelings? What is hidden in her story which makes him love her? To know more, go through this SHE: Ekla Cholo Re. 

Strength of the Book

Best option to quick read, this story has much moments to let readers be more indulged with the book. Both Raj and Kusum characters are depicted very well in this short journey of entertainment. Dialog writing is quite okay. Simple language is used to let readers finish the story at once. Climax in the ending is amazing that how Raj and Kusum both are connected to each other since earlier they meet. Besides, writer has more insisted the centeralised character to be present throughout the book. Being its type of unique book, this story stands more awesome in the way of presentation.

Weakness of the Book

To give Kolkata look to the story, writer has excessively used Bengali language in such small narration. 

Conclusion

Beating with the flow of narration, this book is quite good option to read in a gulp of interest. Proper blend of entertainment with quite interesting story and climax is presented in this book. Describing the pain of a person who is not NORMAL (Beyond the gendership of male and female). Generally, people do not like to interact with the people of other gender and the thing is well described in the story. Besides, the adversities for these kind of people in the society are also discussed. Readers will surely find it more interesting as story has quite running pace of entertainment.

Personal view

It was quite different experience to read such type of novel. As per mine thinking, it is quite difficult to express feeling of those people, avoided by the society and even parents, but writer has put his best efforts in it.

Review By:
- Kamal Paneru

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