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Roaming the Streets of Old Muharraq in Bahrain | escapinglife.com

Have you been to Old Muharraq? I explore the narrow lanes and bylanes of this small little treasure island of Bahrain and time stands still.

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Amritsar to Lahore by Stephen Alter

Book Review - Amritsar to Lahore by Stephen Alter #travelogue #NonFiction #BookReview

Amritsar to Lahore is a book that covers the longest short distance between two marquee cities of Punjab as it was. Amritsar the city of golden temple and Lahore the quintessential capital of Punjab. As someone who went often to Amritsar as a child as someone who grew up listening to stories of Lahore, this book was on my reading list for quite some time. I was fortunate to meet the author at…

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Ghumakkar Swami by Rahul Sankrityayan

Ghumakkar Swami by Rahul Sankrityayan

Ghumakkar Swami by Rahul Sankrityayan

Ghumakkar Swami by Rahul Sankrityayan is the story of a wandering Swami who travels across the length and breadth of North India. It is the biography of a wandering seeker who travels across the sacred geography of India including Kailash Mansarovar, while he is jumping sects. He is essentially trying to find the right spot for himself in the spiritual map of…

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India's Railway Man by Rajendra B. Aklekar – Biography of E Sreedharan

India’s Railway Man by Rajendra B. Aklekar – Biography of E Sreedharan

E Sreedharan at the ripe age of 85 is the poster boy of Indian Railways. No other name comes to mind when it comes to building railway lines like Konkan Railway and Delhi Metro. He is known for his no-nonsense approach to work where no one is allowed to interfere. He delivers and his work speaks more about him than the man himself. We only know small tidbits about him. We hardly know the man…

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Always in Fashion by Bert Geiger - Biography of a Fashion Designer

Always in Fashion by Bert Geiger – Biography of a Fashion Designer

Always in Fashion is the autobiography of Bert Geiger – a fashion designer from America. When this biography came to me for review – I had no idea who he is. I picked it up to read because I wanted to see the journey of a fashion designer. I had earlier read the autobiography of Wendell Rodricks who is a Goa-based fashion designer. The world of a fashion designer is as far as it can be from me.…

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How I became a tree by Sumana Roy

Book Review - How I became a tree by Sumana Roy @sumanasiliguri @alephbookco

How I became a Tree by Sumana Roy takes you into the world of trees. An autobiographical non-fiction, where the author talks about her obsession with trees and her innate desire to be a tree. She has nurtured this desire through various means – by staying close to trees at home and in nearby jungles, by studying all possible literature on trees and by traveling to meet famous trees. It is a…

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The Puffin book of Hindu Gods & Goddesses

The Puffin book of Hindu Gods & Goddesses - An illustrated children's book by @PuffinIndia #bookreview

Hindu Gods and Goddesses can baffle anyone. One, they are so many of them. Two, they can change avatars and take different forms. Three, they are not just human, they can be animals or half human & half animals. They are not always divine and benevolent, they can take ferocious avatar – if the purpose deserves so. Is one of them supreme? Are they all related to each other? There is no single…

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Heroines by Ira Mukhoty - Powerful Indian Women of Myth & History

Heroines by Ira Mukhoty - Powerful Indian Women of Myth & History #bookreview #women #history

Heroines by Ira Mukhoty takes 8 women from Indian history – women we have always celebrated as empowered women. You would know all these women even if you have not sat down to study them like Ira Mukhoty. They belong to pages of history or poetry or epics that form the fabric of our cultural past. What can a new age author tell more about these women? Some of them have books and books written on…

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Born of the Soil by Kalindi Charan Panigrihi, Bikram Das

Book Review - Born of the Soil by Kalindi Charan Panigrihi, Bikram Das #bookreview #Odisha

This year I want to make a conscious effort to read a bit more regional Indian literature, a bit more Hindi literature. I was happy when this Odia book written in 1934 came to me for review. It has recently been translated into English. The Odia title ‘Matira Manisha’ was written by Kalindi Charan Panigrihi and the version I read has been translated by Bikram Das.

Set in a small village in Odisha…

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Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern - A Review

Book Review - Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern - Story of a girl who can mimic like a Lyrebird #fiction

Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern takes you to the world where nature and the man meet. Through the story of a girl who is like a Lyrebird – mimicking sounds that she hears – almost unconsciously, Cecelia makes you see the world through your ears.

From the hinterlands of Ireland, from its hills located inside the jungle a girl without identity steps out. She has no family left and she has no one she…

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Volga se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan

Volga se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan

Volga se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan is an epic. It traces the human evolution from 6000 BCE to 1942 CE through a common man’s eyes. It begins on the banks of Volga River when the man was a hunter-gatherer. Through small stories from various eras, its tracks our evolution through various eras. Though towards the second half it concentrates on the Indian sub-continent but it never loses view of…

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Brahma Gyan – Science Behind Shiva by Ravikumar Kakde

Brahma Gyan – Science Behind Shiva by Ravikumar Kakde

Brahma Gyan – literally means the knowledge of the universe. Ravikumar Kakde explores if what we worship in Sanatan Dharma is really the cosmos and some of its elements that directly impact us. This book is an inquiry into the cosmos of Hindu deities that may totally overlap the actual universe as we know it.

In Brahma Gyan, the author proposed that Shivais nothing but the Black Hole that is…

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Battle for Bittora by Anuja Chauhan Battle for Bittora presents the 2009 general elections of India in a fictionalized form. You see the typical candidates who get tickets by the leading parties.

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Life and the Grey Notes by Mayank S. Sengar Life and the Grey Notes by Mayank S. Sengar is a book that most of us have within us.

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13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth by Ashwin Sanghi & Sunil Dalal

13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth by Ashwin Sanghi & Sunil Dalal

13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth is a typical self-help book that will tell you all that you probably know already. It tells you that you can never be a billionaire if you keep working for someone else. However, if that is what you enjoy, continue doing so. It tells you that you need to take big risks for big returns – of you have the temperament to take the risk or not is your call.

The author…

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