70 Things You Can Do While Being Hospitalized by Lasse Toft, a book review

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Lasse Toft’s 70 Things You Can Do While Being Hospitalized is a darkly comedic survival guide for patients enduring the monotony, fear, and discomfort of long-term hospitalization. Drawing from his six-month ordeal in hospitals, including time in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Toft delivers a book that is equal parts absurd, irreverent, and unexpectedly poignant. The subtitle, A Funny Mental Survival Guide for Every Patient, perfectly encapsulates its purpose: to arm readers with humour as a weapon against despair. The book’s

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The Malabari Who Loved His Ferrari by Dileep Heilbronn: Book Review

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A truly transformative autobiography does more than chronicle success—it lays bare the soul of the journey, revealing the quiet sacrifices, the unspoken doubts, and the emotional alchemy that turns struggle into triumph. Dileep Heilbronn’s The Malabari Who Loved His Ferrari achieves this with remarkable clarity, offering not just a memoir but a mirror for anyone who has ever dared to dream beyond their circumstances. From the very first pages, where he recounts landing in Dubai in 1991 with just $10

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Legacy of the Lost Words by Ashwini Pratham: A Book Review

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As a reader who often finds romantic fiction predictable or overly sentimental, I approached Ashwini Pratham’s Legacy of the Lost Words with cautious curiosity. What I discovered, however, was a novel that transcends the boundaries of its genre, offering a profound exploration of love, loss, and the human psyche. This is not just a love story; it is a deeply layered narrative that delves into the complexities of relationships, the weight of societal expectations, and the enduring power of memory. What

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Kapardi by Kolhapur Ramamurthy Book Review

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At times, you do come across stories that might demand your attention to a great extent. However, the reward is a fitting culmination of the entire reading ritual… one such tale is a recently published novel by Kolhapur Ramamurthy, Kapardi. This is a detailed review of the same. I hope you enjoy the review and the book, eventually! All the best!

Brief Introduction

Kolhapur Ramamurthy’s Kapardi emerges as a refreshing addition to contemporary Indian fiction, combining the allure of a

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The Quest of Sushruta by Dr. Ajaya Kashyap Book Review

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Dr. Ajaya Kashyap’s The Quest of Sushruta is a rare gem in the landscape of contemporary Indian fiction, offering a profound exploration of the life and legacy of Sushruta, the father of surgery. The novel transcends the boundaries of historical retelling, delving into human existence’s emotional, philosophical, and ethical dimensions. With a narrative rooted in ancient India’s cultural and intellectual vibrancy, Kashyap pays tribute to a pioneering figure and propels readers to ponder the timeless relevance of

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How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang Book Review

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Romance doesn’t scare me unless it becomes a voluminous and tedious task to get across. Yulin Kuang’s novel, surprisingly titled How to End a Love Story, feels nudging and agile until the pace of the story takes over your excitement, and you feel overburdened by the usual drab romantic fiction brought to the table! Isn’t it? Let’s discuss these details in this book review.

Yulin Kuang’s How to End a Love Story offers readers a deeply emotional journey through grief,

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The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao – Book Review

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Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964, The Serpent and the Rope is undoubtedly the magnum opus of Raja Rao. Regarded as one of the greatest figures in Indian English literature, along with R K Narayan and M R Anand, Raja Rao has explored the indefinite path of Indian philosophy, spirituality and Hindu Darshan in this novel. Many critics believe, and it apparently appears to be the case, the author has based the storyline of this novel on the

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Melodies of Society by Arav Rajesh – Book Review

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Indian Poetry, in general, and across languages, has always sided with the sentiments, concerns, thoughts, traditions, problems and solutions that resemble people’s aspirations. The poems in the pre-independence era echoed the need to be independent. The poems of the post-independence era reverberated about the causes of good governance and other issues that concern the general population. In English, poets like Sarojini Naidu and Sri Aurobindo wrote about the concerns of the country before we got our independence. Once we

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The Obvious Truth that is Hidden by Chethana – Book Review

The Obvious Truth by Chethana Book Review

The title of the book tells many stories. Before you get yourself in a mess of thoughts and start speculating, let me break it out that the book is a non-fiction genre attempt at uncluttering the web of thoughts and complex ideas we often encounter as soon as we try to enter into a spiritually active phase. Is it a self-help book? You can say that. Is it a religious book? You can say that too. Is it a book

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Maya, the blindfolded… by Prasad Bag – Book Review

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The entire novel rests on two possible scenarios – either Maya is slipping into madness, slowly and eventually or she actually sees, feels and interacts with ghosts. Being a mystery thriller novel, the storyline will keep you engaged in things otherwise, your focus may come back again and again on these issues as Maya is the protagonist who has the responsibility of driving the plot to a fitting conclusion and that’s really fantastic. In this book review article, I will

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