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#BookReview:Mapping Love by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

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  Title: Mapping Love Author: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Publisher: Rupa Publications  ISBN:  978-9353337919 Here I am, living my life looking at the rear-view mirror, driving to the end of the beginning of where I started. BLURB My body still hurts. It has been some time since Oorja Chaturvedi has come home; but the wounds she suffered, at the hands of the very people who so aptly named her, cut deep. Her relationship with her father was barely strung together with a few words. But when her mother dies, the woman whose nagging love was both her comfort and her secret hiding place from the world, new grief melds with old bitterness. Reeling from the loss, Oorja decides to come back to India, only to find her estranged father missing. Her search leads her to her grandfather, a man who had lived all his life among books and forest, withering away in his house. As she tries to grapple with her grief for a dying grandfather, she unexpectedly finds love and solace in the arms of a man who inheri
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#BookReview: Boons and Curses by Yugal Joshi

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Title: Boons and Curses  Author:  Yugal Joshi Publisher: Rupa Publications Published on:  1st May 2020 ISBN: 978-9353338695 "When the child becomes capable,a mother's biggest elation is to let her child fly and admire his flight." BLURB She was the strongest among the women of her Age, never cried in public or private…But, that evening even she had accepted defeat. It is said that Kunti fulfilled her desires and ambitions through her sons, the Pandavas, resulting in the bloodbath in Kurukshetra. And once the truth struck her she sought help from Krishna to get rid of her guilt. Krishna became Kunti’s moral guardian, a conversation began, from which emerged fascinating tales of women in mythology. In this brilliant retelling, Kunti is placed at the central of the novel and running parallel to her universe are the stories of Aditi and Diti, the primordial mothers, the rebellious Soorpanakha, the independent Sanjana and Tara, trendsetters such as Anusuya, intrigues of Kai
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#BookReview: Done with Love by Shuchi Singh

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Title: Done With Love Author: Shuchi Singh Publisher: Rupa Publications Published on: 1st February 2020 ISBN:   978-93-5333-847-3 But am I done with love? Not yet, I guess! BLURB After a riot of a vacation in Goa, and finding the love of her life in the very handsome Dr Vivian D’ Mello,  Kairavi ‘Kay’ Krishna, a ditzy and dramatic travel journalist, is set for another laugh-a-minute romantic adventure. Our delicious hero and sassy heroine are very much in love, and are just about to tie the knot when Vivian’s evil twin sister and his hot, leggy ex enter the scene. That, coupled with Vivian’s unexplained commitment phobia, threatens to throw their fairy-tale romance to rocky waters. As Kay struggles with heartbreak and jealous rage, she is faced with an unexpected question: will their love survive the odds? Will they make it or break it? Done with Love is another delightfully irreverent story by bestselling author Shuchi Singh, who writes on frie
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#BookReview:A Ticklish Affair and Other Stories by Sunil Kapoor and Sudhir Kapoor

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Title: A Ticklish Affair and Other Stories Author: Sunil Kapoor & Sudhir Kapoor Publisher : Rupa Publications Published on: 5th October 2019 ISBN: 978-9353336813 BLURB A man is blackmailed for a past he never had. An unrequited love story binds two lovers. A man waits for his lover, only to be killed at her hands. A girl takes back her life from her tormentor. From the bestselling authors of the peacock feather comes another delightful offering, ticklish affair. This collection of short stories has all the ingredients of an unputdownable book. Taken from the daily rigmarole of ordinary life, The stories are given extraordinary twists and turns, leading to fascinating climaxes. The dark undertone of ‘blackmail’, the power of belief in ‘Spark of the divine’, the forbidden romance in ‘ticklish affair’ or the eternal power of love in ‘rickshaw faridabadi’, this collection of stories is sure to move readers to tears of sadness and joy at the same time. COVE
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#BookReview: Yakshini by Neil D'Silva

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Title: Yakshini  Author : Neil D'Silva Publisher: Rupa Publications  Published on:  1st October 2019 ISBN:  978-9353336745 Halfway to the heavens, in a realm hidden by clouds, a divine beauty—a Yakshini—is facing a sentence for her folly. Down on earth, a couple in Maharashtra is expecting their seventh child, and is performing a special yajna to fulfill their desires. By a strange quirk of fate, these two distinctly different lives are soon to be intertwined. BLURB Fifteen-year-old Meenakshi is no ordinary girl. Blessed with celestial attributes, she has beauty that would rival a goddess’s, a unique communion with nature, and a supernatural being living inside her. Even so, Meenakshi lives amongst men and eventually, the evil eye falls upon her. That’s when the Yakshini inside her awakens. As the Yakshini takes control, Meenakshi is catapulted into a world of passion and violence that even threatens her husband’s life. Neil D’Silva’s Yakshini is
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#BookReview: Lights! Scalpel! Romance! by Jas Kohli

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Title: Lights! Scalpel! Romance! Author : Jas Kohli Publisher: Rupa Publications Published on: 1st August 2019 ISBN: 978-93-5333-490-1 Being a surgeon is not easy. And the ones in Nirog Hospital are the best at making it worse. BLURB Being a surgeon is not easy. And the ones in Nirog Hospital are the best at making it worse. Nipun, the eternal prankster and Nishtha, the strong-headed beauty, join the MS (surgery) course under Dr Ujjwal, a brilliant surgeon-cum-alfa male of the hospital, and Dr Anuroop (alias Candy), a smooth operator. Freaky situations and spicy incidents become the norm when their worlds collide. Edgy patients and their relatives add even more spice to the mix. Amidst all this chaos, Nipun makes every effort to find love but his efforts fail every time. When he’s not failing, he’s falling—and literally. Soon he starts being known as a doctor who is more dangerous than the disease itself. Will Fiasco King Nipun attain
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#BookReview: Designing Destiny by Kamlesh Patel

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Title: Designing Destiny Author : Kamlesh Patel Publisher: Westland Ltd. Published on: 31st January 2019  ISBN:  978-9387894532 BLURB What does destiny mean in the course of our lives? What is fixed and what can change? How can we design our own destiny? These are questions that some of the world’s greatest philosophers have asked since time immemorial. In this groundbreaking book, Daaji addresses such questions with simple solutions and practical wisdom. He leads us on to the next stage of the journey after The Heartfulness Way, guiding us on how to use the Heartfulness practices to refine our lifestyle and design our destiny, including our destiny in the afterlife. He elaborates on the subject of consciousness, the role of evolution, and explains what happens to us at the time of birth and death—and how we can act in those pivotal moments when life takes a turn. Daaji inspires us to believe in ourselves and find a way forward, no matter what the ch
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