FIFA 2014 ChampionsI don't remember how I started following FIFA World Cups. But it was in the year 1998 and I was in high school. That year I was addicted to Ricky Martin's songs (even though I didn't understand most of it). I guess his singing of the official song for FIFA 1998 "La Copa …
Our Big Sister
She came to us a few days before my third birthday. She was only a few years older to me. We were then living in Guwahati. Since then she has been with us. My sister who was around a year and a half then took to her hip immediately and it kind of became her …
Book Review #14: Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a Superhero
Name: Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a SuperheroAuthor: Santosh Avvannavar, Jacob Monsy and Ruchita Kumar ShahNo. of Pages: 78Genre: Fiction/Self-helpPublisher: Aravind Enterprise (www.a4dable.in)Price: Rs. 80/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:“Weddings have logic, but Marriages have only emotions” The book encompasses 14 different heart touching episodes with simple narration. These are partly based …
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Power Woes
11th July 2014. 4 AM.It is four in the morning now. The power has been gone for four hours already. Thankfully we got a new battery for our inverter, so the fans are still running. Since the last three nights and three days, our entire block had been suffering from frantic voltage fluctuations, making it …
Book Review #13: Second Heart
Name: Second HeartAuthor: Dr. Sandeep G. Huilgol & Santosh AvvannavarNo. of Pages: 78Genre: Fiction/Short StoriesPublisher: Aravind India (www.a4dable.in)Price: Rs. 80/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:The book encompasses five five different heart touching stories with simple narration to bring an awareness about the misconception about kidney (referred as Second Heart) issues among general public. …
Book Review #12: Unsung Songs
Name:Unsung SongsAuthor: Khushi JivanNo. of Pages: 96Genre: Poetry/Lyric PoetryPublisher: Virgin Leaf Books (An Imprint of Leadstart Publishing Pvt. Ltd.)Price: Rs. 125/-Published in: 2013The blurb of the book says:Khushi’s is not just a collection of poetic thoughts worded together; hers is the song of a little robin on your window, the cuckoo in her nest. Sweet, …
Book Review # 11: Metamorphing
Name: MetamorphingAuthor: Kunal PancholiNo. of Pages: 250Genre: FictionPublisher: Frog Books (An Imprint of Leadstart Publishing)Price: Rs. 225/-Published in: 2014The blurb of the book says:28TH APRIL, 2000: Flight No. 9x4876 bound to Srinagar has crash landed into the Everest Base camp. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the flight mysteriously went off the radar for few minutes and …
New Releases #2: The Harbinger: Patchwork Launch
On 29th June 2014, Neerja Gaurie’s "The Harbinger: Patchwork" published by Leadstart Publishing was launched. Here is the post release and photographs of the of the event. The Harbinger: Patchwork Launch~ A grand evening with Rochelle Maria Rao at Oxford Bookstore ~ Mumbai, 29th June, 2014: Leadstart Publishing and Oxford Bookstore hosted the book launch of …
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Book Review #10: The Unwanted Shadow
Name: The Unwanted Shadow Author: Bhaskaryya DekaNo. of Pages: 166Genre: Thriller/FictionPublisher: Half Baked Beans PublishingPrice: Rs. 175/-Published in: 2014 The blurb of the book says: Mohan, a small town boy, is nothing but hopeful when he moves to Delhi to complete his education. After all, this is what he had always planned to do, to …
WWW Wednesday #13 (25th June 2014)
Hello folks! It is WWW Wednesday time once more. Hope you had a good reading week. WWW Wednesday is a weekly reading event hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. To play along, you just have to answer the following three (3) questions… What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you …