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Book Review: Www.marryaghost.com by Abhimanyu Jha

Introduction ISIN: 9789382665199 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Sristhi Publishers Price: Rs. 195/- (I got this book for review from Blog Adda) Oh… You cannot go without me! I know you are tired, but come, This is the way. – Rumi Maahi has lost her way. The tired, desperate young soul who remembers nothing except dying next to sea waves and a strange golden-haired man. Veeru is a young, happy-go-lucky entrepreneur who creates www.marryAghost.com, and gets pulled into an adventure when Maahi registers as the first ‘ghost’. Asmita Burman is an old, half-blind professor who finds Maahi inexplicably, can hear and see ghosts, and knows way too much about them. And then there’s D’Mello, a five-hundred-year-old ghost of a Portuguese nobleman also searching for Maahi, mysteriously appearing and disappearing. Who will help Maahi get freedom by finding her golden-haired beloved in fourteen days before she gets trapped on earth, maybe forever? Join the age-old...

Silent Saturday

A beginning..

There are moments in life when you should be dreaming and then there are times when you should be living those dreams. The last year in particular has been one where I have seen a lot of my dreams come true , the recent one being: You can buy this book from HERE Yes! My first official project as an editor. Ghost editing projects and then doing it officially where you are duly credited for the work in public domain are two different things and for me this is one such beginning. a small, humble one but one that sets the ball rolling for me.For me my blog has always been the place I share everything my laughters and my tears. So how can I miss out on sharing that is something so precious a milestone for me. Cheers to this one and here's hoping for many more to come!

Silent Saturday

Book Review: Ascent by Amit Chatterjee

Introduction ISIN: 9788184006230 Genre: Non-Fiction/ Self Help / Management Publishers: Random House Price : Rs. 299/- (I got this book for review from the publisher) You don't need an MBA or have a job with a top company to be a good manager. Amit Chatterjee in his provocative and contemplative book explains how managers can excel beyond expectations. He urges managers to act of their own volition and shows how to transcend from being managers to leaders. Through illustrations and useful graphs, the author offers purposeful practices for leadership. Ascent provides a Growth Mantra for managers and how they can emerge as leader-managers through investment in complexity and volition. It is a must-read for all those managers who want to grow and become effective leaders. Behind The book Source: Google Images  

Book Review: A Passionaate Gospel of True Love by Poonaam Uppal

Introduction ISIN: 978-81-921051-09 Genre: Fiction Publishers: Levaanah Publication Price: Rs. 595/- ( I got this book for review from Share Books )You can buy the book HERE I was approached by Share Books for an honest review about this book. The blurb of the book says this is a true story of a glamorous, stylish and fiercely ambitious Indian lass Moh lal Rai who has only one cherished desire, aspiration on her mind to become an internationally acclaimed avant-garde fashion designer. Destiny deceives Moh’s desires landing her in U. S. During her fashion show at Las Vegas she experiences violent vibrations followed by a thunderous broadcasting of her future “ Soon in 1997 you will meet your true eternal lover” on this earth… Dragooned by powerful longing to meet her ancient lover she is now a solitary traveler of an abyss of unfathomable space and time where she is sent on a roller coaster ride to a bizarre realm of gonzo occurrences, happenings, visions, premonitions, di...

Book Review: Limitless Sky by David Charles Manners

Introduction ISBN:  978-1846044458 Genre: Non Fiction / Self help Publishers: Random House Price: Rs. 599/- (I got this book for review from the publisher) This is the remarkable true story of a young man's initiation in the Himalayas. David Manners was trekking in Nepal when he stumbled upon the mountain home of a jhankri, or Nepalese shaman. The jhankri accepted David as his pupil, and so began the next stage of David's extraordinary journey, in which he embarked upon an adventure that was more challenging and, ultimately, life-affirming than anything he could have imagined.  In Limitless Sky, David shares the wisdom and insights he learnt from those transformational days in the Himalayas. These include practical guidance on how to live a full and fearless life, how to find happiness and how to live in ways that nurture both ourselves and others. As David reveals, the life lessons he learned amongst the mountains of the Himalayas could benefit us all today. ...

Silent Sunday

Book Review: Bombay Stories by Saadat Hasan Manto

Introduction ISBN: 978-0804170604 Genre: Fiction / Short Stories Publishers: Random House Price: Rs. 599/- ( I got this book for review from the publisher) Bombay in the 1930s and 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the Subcontinent. Bombay Stories is a collection of Manto’s work from his years in the city. Freshly arrived in 1930s Mumbai, Manto saw a city like no other—an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, and a city bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. It was to be Manto’s favourite city, and he was among the first to write the Bombay characters we are now familiar with from countless stories and films—prostitutes, pimps, lowlifes, writers, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, thugs, conmen and crooks. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative?in searching out those forgotten by humanity, Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s trans...