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Highly relevant to my professional field, and I plan to finish it quickly.
I love the concept, especially the firsthand insights from the SMEs, which make it an even more valuable read.

Kosuke KIndaichi!

Pretty excited about this one.

Grey came up with a solution. He asked the parents how much money the kids were making. The parents told him they earned 50Rs/day. Grey agreed to pay each of the boy's families a lump sum of 1500Rs/month on the condition that the children be allowed to go to school. The parents did not hesitate after that.

It is essential to foster dialogue and reconciliation among different caste groups to challenge deeply ingrained prejudices and promote social cohesion. By addressing the root causes of Dalit marginalization and promoting a culture of inclusivity and equality, we can work towards creating a more just and equitable society in Varanasi and beyond.

" In Chand Ghat, an invisible boundary exists between the Chaudhary and the adjoining Yadav colonies. "
-- This concept of boundaries , partition, sect in every nook and corner has pushed us to certain dark corner where is no coming back.

'This harmony is most evident in these remote places, where god and mountains co-exist' . <3

How much you love mountains? How much you love the inertness which has guarded us, sheltered us, provided us with abundance. Not enough!

As the author says - "The sea has had Stevenson and Conrad, Melville and Hemingway, but the mountains have continued to defy the written word "

Simple stories, heart warming stories by our famous Ruskin Bond.

Eilish is already aware of the troubles ahead. She has been asked to go for BGC before applying for Canada visa.

So far lot of build up for the characters. Just landed on the island :)

The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

"Grim isn't an insult, it is the manifestation of a state of mind. You know what it means?"

When I saw Mayya, I was beyond all of that. I was nineteen years old. Even so, I didn't understand what had just hit me on that night"

'Not a leaf stirs in this country without my consent'- General Pinochet

So relevant considering India's political situation

'At night, if I strained my ears in my underground cell, I could hear the sounds of music and theatre above. People were celebrating life, dancing happily, with no idea that some innocents were rotting below, a few feet under them. Think about it, I am not talking about medieval autocrats or the Mughals or Ottomans.I am talking of your own times, about the city that so many call heaven on earth".

Engrossing read!!

This is a Darjeeling novel.

...hard-hearted world in which husbands refused to acknowledged their wives. And some of these women would think sadly of their names and the joyful meanings they had..."Suhagwanti..of marital bliss" or they would turn to a younger brother and say "Oi Bihari, my own little darling brother, when you were a baby I looked after you as if you were my own son." And Bihari would want to slip away into a corner, but ...

Anna's lifeline to the real world is her window, where she sits day after day, watching her neighbours. When the Russells move in, Anna is instantly drawn to them. A perfect family of three, they are an echo of the life that was once hers.But one evening, a frenzied scream rips across the silence, and Anna witnesses something no one was supposed to see. A gripping thriller and one of the most awaited books of 2018.