Solitude and Books

I bought this book named Tea Country  because it's set in the Himalayan hills of Northern West Bengal. Having visited Kalimpong in 2022, I was intrigued by Dooars. Buy it here:  Amazon link When I got it in my hands, the cover with a picture of tea garden in the afterglow felt very heartwarming. As the blurb described about its connection with animal human conflict being an animal lover, I felt more cativated.  So, the story follows Trisha. She is a young American biologist who travels to Dooars to research human-animal conflicts, especially involving elephants. In newspapers every now and then we get to read how humans are getting affected by these gentle gaints but lso due to humans these beautiful majestic ones are finding harm.  Trisha’s journey is transformed when she meets few people there. Joy, a charming doctor; Indira, who runs schools for tea estate children; Lalit, a stoic businessman; Leila, copi...

The Game of Choices by uthor Anish is such a fresh story to read. Though it is a fiction that revolves around the world of cricket and the presence of mischief conducted by business-minded cheaters like betting syndicates and bookmakers, it imparts some life lessons.  There are many different characters with complex personalities, but our protagonist is the one whose life is focused on. The timelines jump between 2007, 2008, and 2011, but the language is kept lucid and the twists are easy to grasp with a middle-paced plot. Due to our impulsive nature, sometimes we take hasty actions resulting in long-term damages. The author shares through the plot that we are the products of our choices. Each choice made not only affects us but also many close and far as we are all linked in some way.  The Almighty has plans for each one of us, but in the illusion of the materialistic world where greed and lust exist, we forget the real essence of the non-materialistic things that bring real ...