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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...

Title: T21 In Downs Lane Author: Utpal Kant Mishra Publisher:  The Write Place Published on: 27 May 2018 Binding:  Paperback ISBN:  978-9387282353 " We are living fiction for everyone and everybody has their own interpretations about us. Every time it is far from reality and so it is not the same.' BLURB Aashima, a young journalist, befriends Jay, a ‘differently different’ son of Ayesha and Siddhartha, who has Down Syndrome. Sid’s diary, which unfolds a completely different world, pulls her deeper into Jay’s emotional turmoil. T21 in Downs Lane is an intensive narrative about the parents' struggle to give birth and raise a child with Trisomy 21. A heart rendering account, it is also a revelation of peoples' perception about Downs Syndrome. Whether it is their disdain, sympathy or curiosity, the author has captured these emotions in a realistic semblance. The insightful and factual information on Down Syndrome adds value to the ...

Hello everyone!  The month of July was really very good for me or you can say that it was one of the reading months for me this year. I manged to read eight diverse titles. I really liked that I read different genres in the month of July and not  sticked to just one. I read not only Indian authors but I read quite a few foreign authors as well. So, here are the books that I read : 1. GIRL IN THE MIRROR by Cecelia Ahern Girl In the Mirror comprises of two short stories which are quite different. I have read a lot of books by Cecelia Ahern and this one was quite different. The first story was basically unimaginable one. I was just thinking whether this can happen in reality or not. It was a dark story. While on the other hand, the other story The Memory Maker was not so interesting. It was confusing for me. Overall, the book was an average read. 2. HERE FALLS THE SHADOW by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay Here Falls The Shadow  ...