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Thar express - eBook eReview

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The book began with a bang. A man found in a landslide, in a very precarious condition at a very  disputed site and with no memory whatsoever - this is the beginning of a story that you can do so much with. And this is probably a very Bollywood style story too.  The first third of the book is little slow with our protagonist (Mano, he remembers it in a while) trying to find his bearings and beginning to understand his problem. The second third of the book runs and pulls you along with it. It gets better and our Mano is a man with a mission to go around the country and figure out who he is and where he comes from. And all this while the police, the NIA, the army, everyone is looking for a potential terrorist on the run. Is Mano an ordinary guy caught in the extraordinary? Is he an insurgent helping the militants bringing supplies across the border? Is he pretending or has he really lost his complete memory? When he gets his memory will he turn dangerous? How did he find hims

#UseYourAnd - Things that define me

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It's hard to say what defines me. Passions define people. I love to read.  It's almost like travel, I keep going into different worlds with the help of different books. I love to write. Although I haven't written as much as I would like to due to lack of time, I'm so engrossed in it when I write that I get hyper when I'm interrupted. I love travel. To see new places, understand the culture, learn a few words in their language, and then write about it. I love to sing, all the time. As I grew up I've learnt to sing in my head but I'm happier singing aloud at the top of my voice. I love acting, especially monoacting. I loved math when I was growing up and in engineering I realised I don't love math enough to love all the hypothetical math, but I continue to love it in its simplicity and use that at work everyday. I love the internet. This may be a slightly odd thing to say but I love to search for things and read up on them. Once I get into Wikipedia look

#UseYourAnd - A Journey from OR to AND

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'And' is such an interesting word. At a people management course, I was once asked to replace 'but' with 'and', and suddenly things that you disagreed with became things that you could potentially agree with if improvised upon. Now Gillette is asking us to replace 'or' with 'and', and you no longer need to compromise. This post is a part of  #UseYourAnd  activity at  BlogAdda  in association with  Gillette Venus . When I decided to write about my journey from OR to AND, I thought about it and I couldn't come up with a story. And then I realised that, I had shut my ears to anyone who told me that OR was an option. It wasn't. I had been taking the route of an AND since I was a child. Schooling defines who you become. I absolutely love my schooling and my school friends. It is the place where I grew up and learnt to have confidence in me, to speak in front of people, to lead people. I owe my school a lot. But it was not always the