Tag: India

BOOK REVIEW: The Longest Ride on the Kincham Express by Divya Johry

Posted May 1, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Divya Johry’s latest book The Longest Ride on the Kincham Express is a contemporary fiction about five travelers. It is a tale that summarises different human aspects in one journey that seems long enough. Thus, making the plot of the book intriguing. The plot includes five characters: Amaaya, Sujoy, Neil, Mihir and Trisha who are chosen by their organization to embark on a journey with a task of accomplishing by travel back along with a criminal baba. The plot is interesting from the start when a reader is being introduced to these different personalities without much knowledge of what they were chosen to do. Each personality shows different traits throughout the book by not agreeing as unibody on the matters […]

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BOOK REVIEW: On the Road to Tarascon by Arnab Nandy

Posted April 5, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction / 0 Comments

Arnab Nandy latest book published on the new year day of this year is fascinating. Not only because it is released on January the first but story that revolves around by shifting timelines between diverse locations and characters starting from the World War II era to the present day. Painter on the road to Tarascon is painting by Vincent van Gogh, a painter whose reputation was equally under-appreciated when he was alive in comparison to after his death. Maybe the reason he died. Maybe his paintings truly are captivating. That is for another post to discuss. This story’s main element is the painting that after World War II was thought to be lost or destroyed in Germany. Many years after, […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Legend of Kuldhara by Malathi Ramachandran

Posted April 3, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 0 Comments

This is a historical novel set in Rajasthan in village name Kuldhara, near Jaisalmer. It was abandoned and cursed nearly two hundred years ago and now what remains are broken homes. Something happened in one night that drove its people away to leave their homes and never to return. This is what Malathi Ramachandran’s book, The Legend of Kuldhara is a based on. The plot dissects between two female characters who are associated with the Rawal King, Saailm Singh or Zaali Singh as the villagers like to call him. Showing excellency in his work, he is well trusted in his position but a cruelty shown in his trait by being a womanizer is where he tries to excel these days. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Mountains to Manhattan by Pinakie Kansabanik

Posted March 13, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 1 Comment

The stories that explore harsh realities always fascinate me. Mountains to Manhattan is a book about Tibetan immigrants to India after the invasion of Red Army. What more fascinated me about this book is that the author has narrated the whole story by opting the opposite gender. The plot revolves around a young, and smart Tenzin Lhamo who was labeled as a refugee before she was born. After the invasion of Red Army her mother, aunt and grandmother had to leave Tibet and settled in India. But did the Indian government did not grant them citizenships and there was a fake hope in their hearts that one day they will be able to go back. With restrictions and no passport, […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Origami Birds by Tanya Jain

Posted March 6, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books / 2 Comments

Origami Birds is a collection of forty-four poems written by Tanya Jain. In order to reach a reader’s heart these poems do cover a lot of topics that some of them might be considered sensitive but then I guess poetry is a way of expressing one’s feelings and a way for those who read them to share those expressions and feel a warmth in their heart too. It works both ways. The title of this collection is rightly justified. When I received, I was curious about it and found a satisfactory verse that introduced me to it at the start: Some birds are free, Some birds are caged. This origami bird is molded from a page. Set her […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Based on Lies – It Begins by Debarshi Kanjilal

Posted February 24, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Based on Lies: It Begins is the first in a series of two novellas published in 2017. The main element used in this novel is of psychological thriller following the life of Anuraag Sanyal, the protagonist of the novella. The writing certainly displays the dark corners of an imaginative mind. The plot starts with the protagonist sitting in the middle of the night, suffering from insomnia writing in his notepad about the event of his past life. The storyline somewhat follows this pattern and a reader gets to see the Anuraag’s present too. He is having a troubled marriage for five years and had a lover in past, and one as a nearby cafe owner. Each new chapter decipher a […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Succeed The Happionaire Way by Yogesh Chabria

Posted February 18, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Non-Fiction / 0 Comments

Some say happiness is a state of mind. Many believe in that. I do too. It indeed is a state of mind but we all wonder how to achieve that state of mind, don’t we? The happiness of an individual is reflected by aspects that are prior to us mortals. These aspects fall under few different criteria and a common ground between them is where the state of happiness lies. It is not something that is achievable because there is nothing to achieve. It is a state of mind that takes some practice and wilful mindfulness on daily basis. Thus, this is the message of Yogesh Chabria, a world-renowned leader in the field of human potential, new book: Succeed The […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Assassinations by Vikram Kapur

Posted February 13, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 1 Comment

The Assassinations, A Novel of 1984 written by Vikram Kapur is a historical fiction that deeply covers the riots that took place after a former Prime Minister of India was assassinated. The complete plot takes place in New Delhi which was at the time (in 1984) a locus for the riots. The storyline follows the lives of two families who are engaged and affected in the historical event in a deep manner. Deepa is a Hindu girl who falls in love with Prem an ambitious son of a Sikh refugee. They both decide to get married with their families approval keeping aside their religious differences. Then the strike hits and changes both of their lives.

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Author Interview: Priyanka Baranwal

Posted February 10, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Interviews / 1 Comment

Q. Hi Ms. Priyanka, and thank you for agreeing this interview. Tell us a little about yourself and your background? Hello, Amandeep! My pleasure to be here again. I am Priyanka from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh (India). I currently live in Kuwait. I am an author, and a blogger; love to play guitar and do some poetry as well. My hobbies are traveling, reading, jogging, and watching movies. I have two books to my credit – It’s Never Too Late and the latest, The Shadow of Darkness. Both books are being received well by the readers.

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BOOK REVIEW: Fragments by Heraclitus

Posted February 8, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 2 Comments

Written around twenty-five hundred years ago, Heraclitus declared that energy is the essence of the matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. Fragments if a form of collected writings by the Greek, since the title and the context of the book both suggest that.