Solitude and Books

A Slice Of Life: Every Person Has A Story By :  Smita Das Jain This is a collection of some beautiful short stories by the author Smita Das Jain. Each story has their own theme and flow in different pace. They are like a bouquet of wildflowers creating a beautiful bunchwith different colours.  Each story portray some aspects of our lives with its intricacies described. The nuances of the relationship between the characters are well painted. Various emotions are touched from love, happiness, grief, guilt, hope, faith to humour and amicable feelings.  There are total eighteen such short tales that are pivoted around some mundane lives living creating extraordinary hues in the lives. The stories are thoughtful. Few again bring to us a feel of melancholy and nostalgia too. They leave almost an afterglow even after they have finished.  I really liked reading Rendezvous that is the very first story. Later the story Parched made me almost...

Straight from the Horse's Mouth By Harish Sippy __________________________ This is a book full of words of wisdom from a pioneer. It has one hundred quotes about different aspects of our lives. These quotes simpify our lives. Mr. Haresh Sippy the author of this book is an entrepreneur, technocrat, patent holder and founder managing director of TEMA India Ltd. He has shared his thoughts over different aspects of our lives in forms of one liner quotes. These quotes simply our lives. The author of this book as it seems is a young at heart, thinker. He has shared his thoughts over various situations in this books through one liners or simple yet effective quotes that simply strike a chord in us while we read them. They are thoughtful, meaningful and yet comprehendable. Such motivational or inspirational lines remind us and thus we go back to our roots intropecting ourselves as we find clarity in our minds. I liked reading them. I recommend it to people who are new to books ...

Bookshelf whispers  By Bhagyashree Ranade  ____________ This is take of love, life and legacy. As the story starts we get to know about the history of the Wada which is joint family. We get to know the scenic backdrop of this place. Surya and Ganyatri are the owners of the place who are very caring and loving in their ways. But their son Akinsa is stubborn and has some issues too. Surya motivates his son's skills of painting, poems but his son was more into sports. One day suddenly he goes missing. When nobody has any clue and almost everyone looses hope after many years he suddenly returns. After his return to Pune, a friendship between him and a foreigner girl Emilie( foreign exchange student)  starts to bloom slowly. When they become emotionally attached being in poetry discussion groups the cultural origin and societal differences between them also start to line up coming from two different cultural origins. Rural and western. Arguments start to rise between them too....

Effective RU.L.E : A Life changing process  By Satish Shitut This is an excellent guide for anyone whose mind is getting fogged amidst the all busy world but still wants to see self improvement step by step.  The objective of the book is to first understand the complexities in our lives and instead of getting involved in these external factors, choose a simplistic approach with a holistic view to become internally strong and practise these eternal principles as a way of life to be happy and lead a balanced and effective life. R.U.L.E.  Respect, Understand, Love and Evolve is the mantra and way forward. In this mantra the essence of life is hidden.  First when I got to know about late Smt. Sushila Dattatray Kashikar, the tai of the author I felt immense respect for her. She gave and also received love in her life. Her motivational journey helps readers feel strong and hopeful even if they are in harsh situation to take correct actions in their ...

Art of Buying  By Faiq Ali Khan  ____________ "We are known for the values we create, benefitting society and changing lives for good" - Faiq Ali Khan  ____________ This book is all about how to become a better thoughtful buyer.  An immensely insightbook guide that is filled with real life examples and authors own life experience on ideas of value buying working as reminders to everyone to be happy with what they have in life spending within budget without complaining and expanding budget. This book is for all whoever is a buyer.  It explains what's the importance of sustainable buying, need for negotiation, risk and money management, turning savings to profit, learning more and getting accustomed to digitization, and understand the 7 habits of better buyers.  There are tips and tricks, strategies, facts, tables presented backed by market research to help you with ethical buying within its 11 chapters.  I recommend it to people who like to ...

New Born  Babies Little Enigmas By Dr. R. P. Bansal is the saga of first six months of a babies life.  New borns are bundle of joys spreading smile on everybodies lips but they require utmost sophisticated care until 6 months. Many a times new parents get baffled with the new situations.  For their parents it is life changing event. They also face intriguing cases that they have never faced earlier and thus may end up taking wrong decision and jeopardize child's health and find anxiety at all corners. This book is a good guidance for them that is intended to help parents to cope up with such times. Based on author's interactions as a doctor in this field with newborns and families, he hopes this tales will be interesting and educative to the readers.  So he has divided the book into 6 sections wherein his aim is to provide the reader with an insight into the new borns wonderful life wherein he bursts myths and lay any u...

Gita & Vedic Wisdom Greatest Spiritual Wisdom  By Pranay  Published by Fingerprint Publishers  I am really happy to have found yet another book by the eminent author in the spiritual genre Mr.Pranay.  Last time I read - 'Vedas and Upanishads' and 'Krishna' and till date I go back to them when ever my inner conflicts fog up my vision towards life. Now this book comprises of the wisdoms and life lessons that has been shared in our religious book- Gita and it's contemporaries the different Vedas- Raja, Karma, Gyaana, Bhakti.  I think such books shall be published more for they are translated in lucid words helping us inculcate such teachings that if we try to understand from the real texts may come across as arduous. They were written in ancient times but their teachings remain eternal in their applicability.  Vedas teach us basic essence of our lives. Similarly Gita teaches us what should be our action on Earth.   They clarify our do...

Little Do We Know  Authored by : Divya Johari Resu  This is an anthology of beautiful poems. It has plethora of such pieces that will soak through your skin to provide you something to comtemplate on.  Here are total sixty seven such thoughtful poems that are spread around different hues of genres. They range from themes of finding hope in sombre times, dream of one's life, owing oneself, embracing ones process of healing after breaking down, plight of being poor, romance and loss, nature's bliss, etc. They touch nuances of emotions and through rhymic verses that about various aspects of our life's which make it almost like a beautiful bouquet of some wildflowers tucked together. These were conceived while the autho is pregnant as well. 💛 Few are Short and sone are long poems. Presented in lucid words they still prove to be very thoughtful and yes even beginners would fall in love with them.  They are accompanied by lovely abstract illustrati...

 A Garage Sale of Lovelorn Things By Shrutee Choudhary _________________ Do you like reading books full of thoughts that take you on a journey into your past as well. This book is about things that we hold on dearly but letting go of which help us move forward in our life. Amazon link of the book Things that have subsided in the physical world a long ago but remain in our hearts memories like few dried up beautiful rose petals between the pages of our memories book. Full of emotions that make them almost fragrant in nature these thoughts by the author diffuse in the readers soul. They are accompanied by lovely illustrations that give them more depths. These write ups are about ones lost love, about moments one hold dearest, reminensceces of the olden days and hope to move forward leaving them where they truly belong now any way. I love the title that depicts the true purpose of the content. I Love the cover art that is minimalistic and yet nostal...

The Year That Wasn't The Dairy of a 14 year Old By Brisha Jain _________________ It is a self account of the author who is a very talented student of 14 years about the world that got suddenly struck by the pandemic.  It is pivoted around her life after it and again about many of her generation.  Brisha like many others made a new years resolution but when the Coronavirus hit our world everything became unknown about the upcoming year. As the cases started to go up her life top took a major turn. She expressed great amount of patience and resilience in the process. It is something we all can learn from.  This year definitely made each one of us learn better survival skills and thus psychologically strengenthing even little kids to handle difficult situations at home and outside. It is a book about life lessons learnt during this period of her life.  An account  of real resilience, self improvement, patient, self confidence and...

SIMPLYMUTUAL : The 1% Formula  By Deepak Mullick  This is about everything that one needs to know about building wealth through equity investing.  If you are into your youth and still donot know how to become financial more strong and gain financial freedom by an age this is a book to start from that will benefit you immensely.  I personally found this book very insightful as it is backed by facts, information, years of references, simple yet mindful illustrations, tables and charts based on market research data and authors own advice.  Many of us who are still novice and ignorant about this arena of economy for them these topics may come out to be heavy and confusing and can scare us letting us never enter into it and take mindful desicions. But if one wants good stability in their finance,  equity and MFs prove to be essential to invest in and  useful in long run as well.   First of all author explains ho...

Whispering Bricks  By Siddhartha Bhasker  Published by : Fingerprint! Publishers  _______________ This is a collection of short stories based on the lives of many IIM students. Stories about students who struggled through their young adult desires and high expectations of the society to the ones who smoothly achieved everything.  This book is pivoted around many such aspects of life that comprise of so many emotions. It's like the saying: Walls have ears too. So the emotions got soaked into them and now when time has passed, the bricks are whispering these forgotten tales to us. I truly liked the witty thoughtful title.  I liked reading the story-  'Bite Me' a lot. It was quite different and amusing from the lot. It revolved around campus dogs and their funny activities.  Fifteen such short stories spinning around love, friendship, loss and such phases of life based on different experiences of IIM students who had to tackle thei...

Signposts by Tapan Ghosh is a book of 100 quotes about different aspects of our lives. These quotes simpify our lives.  Mr. Tapan Ghosh the author of this book is a young at heart filmmaker, thinker and a writer. He has shared his thoughts over different aspects of our lives in forms of one liner quotes.  These quotes simply our lives. The author of this book is a young at heart thinker.He has shared his thoughts over various situations in this books through one liners or simple yet effective quotes that simply strike a chord in us while we read them.  They are thoughtful, meaningful and yet  comprehendable. Such motivational or inspirational lines remind us and thus we go back to our roots intropecting ourselves as we find clarity in our minds. I liked reading them.  I recommend it to people who are new to books but need good and lucid meaningful reads, quote lovers and people who are very busy but still want to i...