tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49637915569796911672024-02-08T11:35:19.361+05:30Wingardium Leviosarants and ramblings of a harry potter obsessed......Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-76794935575432626292016-08-07T12:04:00.000+05:302016-08-07T12:04:08.493+05:30Books I have read this year till now <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So we are already in the month of August and I have not been able to write much. Thus this post is a desperate attempt to start re-blogging. Last few months have been a roller-coaster ride with me finishing my college, moving cities, joining my new job and settling in a new place. So reading has certainly taken a back in these months but I am trying to pick up the pace and here is the list of books that I have been reading this year.<br />
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And ya I am way behind my Goodreads Challenge(22 out of 80), hoping that I will catch up soon.<br />
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<li>Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by J.K Rowling</li>
<li>Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Shopaholic & Sister by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Shopaholic on Honeymoon by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Landline by Rainbow Rowell</li>
<li>My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick</li>
<li>Emma by Jane Austen(Reread)</li>
<li>Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>Eleanor & Park by Sophie Kinsella</li>
<li>House of Cards by Sudha Murty</li>
<li>Scion of Ikshvaku</li>
<li>After You by Jojo Moyes</li>
<li>A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler</li>
<li>The Zoya Factor by Anuja Chauhan(Reread)</li>
<li>The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan</li>
<li>Shadow Princess by Indu Sundaresan</li>
<li>Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone by J.K Rowling(Reread)</li>
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Lots of Chick Lits ad breezy reads till now, hope to read more serious stuff in the remaining year.Hopefully some reviews will be coming soon.</div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-19874490373988167522016-04-03T23:31:00.000+05:302016-05-10T04:26:57.659+05:30Nothingness!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-36195747401350594312016-02-13T00:31:00.001+05:302016-03-07T11:55:11.248+05:30And a new start!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And so what if it kills her from within to let it go, but doesn't it hurt more to hang in the middle of nowhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And that's when she decided to let go, to set herself free, to pick all the ripped pieces of her heart</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-54717567488874639592015-10-16T00:39:00.001+05:302015-10-16T00:41:21.698+05:30And then...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No, don't just tell me how your day was.Tell me about your little dreams and small aspirations that reside in that deep corner of your heart. That time when you wanted to be a footballer or an astronaut so that you can touch the moon, when your mom pulled your ears because you teased your little sister. When you and your friends planned a prank on your teacher in class 6th. When you cried after being left out by friends and sulked in that favorite hideout corner of yours. When you had your first crush and your first heartbreak, your favorite songs and the movies that you love. Your deep desire of doing something different and that dream which got buried in some corner of your heart, because of the pace of life. Talk to me about your views on life and love and anything you want. That special birthday present you got from your dad and that broken toy you still have in your drawer. Narrate me that story of your college friends and all the stupid things that you have done with them. And that stupid joke so that I can laugh till my belly aches. Tell me that big mistake you did or that guilt you have, and I will make sure you get rid of all those bad feelings. remember all your memories big or small, sweet or sour. Shed those silent tears and free yourself from all your fears. And in the middle of that deep conversation, crack that one-liner joke of yours.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then maybe I will start opening up!!</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-31899634554896515012015-09-06T01:46:00.000+05:302015-09-06T02:00:59.398+05:30Just like that!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Insecurities, they are the ugliest thing that you can live with.There are times when you ignore them and remain the happiest person on this earth and then comes a day when you feel like disappearing into your shell to protect yourself from these demons.</div>
Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-73766359375933003832015-08-23T15:43:00.002+05:302015-08-23T15:44:32.772+05:30Books I have read this year till now..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How come half of the year is already gone!! With all the stress of college and internship, reading has certainly taken a backseat. I am way behind my Goodreads Challenge(only 25 books out of 75) and really missing the time when I used to read more than 100 books yearly, sigh!! good times those were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the list of all the books that I have read this year till now. Sadly, I have not written even a single book review this year. But I will surely try to write some reviews before the dreaded season of final placements.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wonder by R.J Palacio (this sweet tale certainly needs a review)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Connect The Dots by Rashmi Bansal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Private India by James Patterson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">MockingJay by Suzanne Collins</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone (Reread)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Me Before You by Jojo Moyes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where Rainbows Ends by Cecelia Ahern (one of the best from Cecelia Ahern)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jaya by Devdutt Patnaik</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets (Reread)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Startup Nation by Dan Senor </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Rozabal Line by Ashwin Sanghi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Girl With The Dragon Tatto by Steig Larsson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Reread)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Arise Awake by Rashmi Bansal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">India Grows at Night by Gurcharan Das</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ignited Minds by APJ Abdul Kalam (Reread as a tribute to my idol)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sadly, I have not read even a single classic book this year. My to-be-read list is increasing exponentially and poor me don't have enough time to read. I really hope remaining months treat my reading life good.</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-53505527257177985772015-07-30T09:51:00.000+05:302015-07-30T09:51:11.978+05:30Some days....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> There are days when I just want to pour my soul to someone. Days when I want to lower down all my guards and want to tell someone all my fears, insecurities and apprehensions buried deep inside. When I want to talk to someone who can just listen and try to understand me. Days when I don't want advice and judgements but to be accepted the way I am....</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-77806639928310684372015-06-18T17:04:00.002+05:302015-06-18T17:04:50.061+05:30Can Love be Arranged?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So my best friend is getting married-“an arranged marriage”. Like every other girl she also dreamed of her prince charming, no not someone coming on a white horse, but a person who will be her soul-mate and be with her for entire life. Now when she has found someone or more specifically her parents had found someone for her, has she finally found her prince charming? Will she be able to find love in this perfectly arranged “arrange marriage”?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They say love is the ultimate feeling in this universe, that there is nothing beyond it. Every person has a different definition of love. For some love is respect, for others its caring and sharing, for some it is being together in every phase of life. But when two people come together in an arranged marriage setup, what are the things that bind them together? Does love happen with time? Many of you will say yes, they do fall in love in most of the cases. But is that love or just a feeling of attachment, or a forceful love that happens because now you have to spend your life with your spouse so why not start loving him. Can you really find your soul mate in an arranged marriage or you only start adjusting?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Though according to statistics arranged marriages are more successful as compared to love marriages but do that success rate come from pure love or because of family pressure and social desirability factor. Now this is a million dollar question right!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Whatever be the answer for this question, I just wish she can find all the happiness of the world and true love knocks her door!</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-19975210484345506372015-06-11T19:33:00.000+05:302015-06-20T14:20:33.120+05:30Goodbye note to a very special friend!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So this is it, finally you are off to a new start of your life. When we first met, I never expected that we will come this far, but slowly you started opening up and I realized that real you is entirely different. I know, right now you must be saying that "ae dukhi na kar" but today you have to bear me, no other option. You know what, if 6 months back somebody would have told me that I will miss you this much, then I would have called him crazy. But I don't know when things changed and you became an integral part of my life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now who will bug me saying plz padha, plz padha de and who will keep teasing me for every single thing.You know what I will miss you. I will miss your bakwas, your never calling me by name, your <i>pagalpanti,</i> your idiotic talks, last minute exam revisions with you, always editing your assignments and most I will miss being with you, you know why because I can be myself with you and you never tried to change me. Okay now enough ,its getting a bit dramatic and filmy and please <i>abhi tu jyada hawa mein mat udd jaana, hai to tu ek number ka sadu hi. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Now it's time for some gyann from Big Sister :P.You are going to start a new, really important phase of your life and I know you will surely excel in it. But please do one favor to me,start living a bit more freely, make lots of new friends, start expressing yourself, start doing things what you really want to and not what you think are right. You know what sometimes it's okay to loosen up and where you are heading, it's important also with all the stress that will soon come to you. Start laughing and trying new things, do some silly things and just make yourself happy. I know right now you are heart broken and may be feeling a bit shattered but trust me this one time, you will soon get over it. No, you will not forget your past but you will secure it as a very special memory that will always bring smile on your face. And one day you will find someone who will make you realize that why it never worked with anyone else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> And now enough of my bakwas, at the end, I just want to thank you for always being you.I don't know how much I mean to you but for me you are a wonderful friend, whom I will cherish my whole lifetime. I truly wish you will get everything you want and not all those things that you think you want, but what you truly want from the bottom of your heart.I don't know what life holds and if we will be in touch for long or not but for me you will always be my best friend and my little irritating and annoying brother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Always keep smiling and don't worry I will always remember my Book Cafe deal :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be happy always and <i>don't worry itni jaldi tera peecha chodne ka mera koi iraada nahi hai, I will keep bugging you always.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will really miss you drama queen and nautanki :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you for giving me lots of memories.</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-62045439641829942302015-05-12T15:04:00.000+05:302015-05-12T15:04:00.726+05:30Sorry Blog!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sorry dear blog for ignoring you for such a long period. I was so much occupied in my college that didn't give you time(I know all these are excuses but still :p). But now I am back and will try to be more regular here.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, it has been almost two months since I have started a new phase in my life. And I am really loving this. Its a random post on what's happening around life. So finally I have lived through 2 months of MBA, which by the way is very big deal. Okay and right know I am in a super frustrated mode that's why here comes my first rant post :p</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Why do people judge you on every single step you take??? If I don't wanna go party that doesn't mean I am boring, it just means that I don't feel like partying as simple as that!!!</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And still this 3 hour sleep seems luxury to our profs and they keep nazar lagaying to it by saying oh you young folks don't need to sleep more than 2 hours. And that is the case when we attend classes from 8 to 5 and then try to lessen ever increasing burden of assignments till wee hours of mornings.What are we robots??</span></li>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-2522848300830786932014-08-24T18:57:00.000+05:302014-08-24T18:57:26.338+05:30Book Review: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaleed Hosseini<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.</span></span><div>
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<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have live</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">d that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.” </span></i></span></span></li>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-72403548229166589002014-07-28T13:48:00.000+05:302014-07-28T13:48:41.910+05:30Books I have read this year till now!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't believe we are already half way through the year. Why is this year flying so soon??This has been a really busy year till now and reading has certainly taken a back seat but still I managed to read some good books and hoping to read many more!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I am way behind my Goodreads challenge(31 out of 75 books i.e 11 books behind) but still reading 30 books in 6 okay almost 7 months is huge for me. So I thought of compiling all my reading till now in a list. So here is the list:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (only classic that I've read this year till now)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And the Mountains Echoed by Khaleed Housseini (review coming soon)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Handle with care by Jodi Picoult</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you could see me now by Cecelia Ahern</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Gift by Cecelia Ahern</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manju Joseph (review coming soon hopefully)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince(Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (<a href="http://wingardiumleviosaaa.blogspot.in/2014/06/book-review-storyteller-by-jodi-picoult.html">Review Here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Book Of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix(Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (Review pending from long time)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Truly Madly Deeply by Faraaz Kazi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sita by Devdutt Patnaik</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (<a href="http://wingardiumleviosaaa.blogspot.in/2014/05/book-review-lowland-by-jhumpa-lahiri.html">Review Here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets (Re read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Night Train at Deoli by Ruskin Bond</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Room by Emma Donoghue (<a href="http://wingardiumleviosaaa.blogspot.in/2014/04/book-review-room-by-emma-donoghue_7.html">Review Here</a>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (Re Read)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks For The Memories by Cecelia Ahern</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friends in Small Places by Ruskin Bond</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Fault in our Stars by John Green</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last Man in the Tower by Arvind Adiga</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Inferno by Dan Brown</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lost Symbol by Dan Brown</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert</span></li>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-43971576036105140482014-07-22T23:24:00.000+05:302014-07-22T23:24:34.828+05:30Living a new life!!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So it has been fifteen whole days since I started my new college and a completely new life in hostel. And I will say just one thing its awesome. I am totally loving my classes, subjects and oh yes the mighty assignments and presentations. I know that its just starting and I am going to start cribbing about the same things soon but right now I enjoying being a student again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before coming here I was little skeptical about living in a hostel. As this is the first time I am living away from home I was like how am I going to manage. Being lived in a very protective environment in a small city whole my life it was even more difficult for me. But I must say that I adjusted pretty soon to this environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another thing that was of my constant worry was that I hardly make new friends. I never had a large friend circle, just have 4-5 friends all my life. Its not like as if am introvert, just that I take some time to open up. But here I met some really nice people and gelled with them easily and voila!! I have some really nice friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Talking about living in a hostel its not that bad as I have thought about. I am slowly getting accustomed to it. But still sometimes holding a bucket in a line feels weird and all these 'keedas' are making my life more difficult. But what is a life without some struggles na.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's why I am just taking life here as its comes and trying to enjoy it to the fullest. Okay time for assignments see you soon. </span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-58360541543491881452014-07-05T09:40:00.001+05:302014-07-05T09:40:32.578+05:30My First Award Yayyyy!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />Yipeee its time for celebrations.Yes I have been nominated for my first blogger award "The Leibster Award" by Satya from <a href="http://locomente.blogspot.in/">Locomente.</a><br /><br /> </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><br />Thanks a lot Satya for considering me worthy of the award. Since I am relatively new to the blogging world, it came as a really sweet surprise. It really feels nice that somebody likes my amateur writing. I am really sorry for not being prompt as right now I am busy preparing for shifting in hostel.<br /><br />Now about rules and regulations of the leibster award:<br /><br /> 1. Thank the person who has nominated you and post a link of their blog on your blog.<br /> 2. Display the award on your blog- by including it in your post or displaying it using a widget.<br /> 3. Answer 11 questions about yourself provided to you by the person who nominated you.<br /> 4. Provide 11 random facts about yourself.<br /> 5. Nominate 5-11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have less than 1000 followers.<br /> 6. Create a new list of questions for your nominees.<br /> 7. List these rules in your post.<br /> 8. After publishing it, inform the nominees that they are nominated for The Leibster Award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it.<br /><br />So here are my answers:<br /><br /> 1. Story behind your blog name?<br /> As everyone knows by now that I am big Harry Potter fan and Wingardium Leviosa is associated with one of my favorite scenes.<br /><br /> 2. Your favorite book and why?<br /> Harry Potter series because its really magical.<br /> A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleed Housseini because it shows emotions beautifully.<br /><br /> 3. Favorite color?<br /> White for its simplicity and blue for its serenity.<br /><br /> 4. As a child what you wanted to be when you grew up?<br /> Night sky and stars had always fascinated me and I wanted to be an astronaut.<br /><br /> 5. Your dream holiday destination?<br /> Can I say Harry Potter Theme Park, London :P<br /><br /> 6. Coke or Pepsi?<br /> Frooti anyday.<br /><br /> 7. Facebook or Twitter?<br /> Reading :)<br /><br /> 8. Your mother tongue?<br /> Hindi.<br /><br /> 9. Favorite Quote?<br /> " It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore.<br /><br /> 10. Your Birthday?<br /> 11th July.<br /><br /> 11. Favorite number and why?<br /> 2 and I really don't know why.<br /><br /><br />11 random facts about myself:<br /><br /> 1. I am a loner.<br /> 2. I don't make new friends easily.<br /> 3. I am really messy and unorganized.<br /> 4. I prefer reading over partying anyday.<br /> 5. I am a day dreamer.<br /> 6. I don't like chocolates much but love ice creams.<br /> 7. I prefer mom-made food over any exotic dishes.<br /> 8. I hate dogs and lizards.<br /> 9. I hate money-minded people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">10. I feel uncomfortable in over-cleaned spaces. I like cozy spaces.<br /> 11. I have left-feet and can't dance to save my life.<br /><br />I nominate:<br /> 1. <a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/">Ashna Banga</a><br /> 2. <a href="http://thewhimsybookworm.blogspot.in/">Pooja T</a><br /> 3. <a href="http://shonazee.blogspot.in/">Shonazee</a><br /> 4. <a href="http://srishkuk.blogspot.in/">SrishTi</a><br /> 5. <a href="http://srishtygrover.wordpress.com/">Srishti Grover</a><br /><br />My Questions for nominees:<br /><br /> 1. Your favorite book and why?<br /> 2. One movie/book that you can read/watch any number of times?<br /> 3. Your favorite comfort food?<br /> 4. Your favorite cartoon character?<br /> 5. Your one guilty pleasure?<br /> 6. One thing that you absolutely hate?<br /> 7. Why did you started blogging?<br /> 8. Your dream holiday destination?<br /> 9. One thing that you want to change in yourself? <br /> 10. Most embarrassing thing you ever did?<br /> 11. Your favorite quote?<br /><br /><br />If hope you guys have fun answering these questions :)<br /></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span> </div>
Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-13764449454654460312014-06-29T23:50:00.000+05:302014-06-29T23:50:39.875+05:30Book Review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Title:</b> THE STORYTELLER</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Jodi Picoult</span><br />
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<b>Goodreads Blurb:</b> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c73f1b8d-7952-4fd7-b201-a9f4dce3e518" id="8c6b28b1-8208-4afa-80e2-1f3e0fe085e4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="67ae39cb-8f3e-496e-8f26-d293b59b8399" id="729f2028-d0e7-450f-8fbe-875c007b4e65"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d39a68f9-638a-43c6-bd2b-8e7db0596037" id="b7925985-787d-47f1-86e3-4d0a2bb71de5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ec6e7555-38f8-49bf-a2fd-db5609943290" id="0011337e-bf7f-4d65-b845-f4b895edab67">...</span></span></span></span>and then he confesses his darkest secret—he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard. Complicating the matter? Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My Views:</b> This book deals with not just one, but two big issues, holocaust and forgiveness. When you pick up such issues, sometimes it is difficult to balance them. Also writing historical fiction is not easy, but Jodi Picoult has woven a very compelling tale. My knowledge about <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f7d6ee21-b63d-43cc-b407-6835ebe3c533" id="98022f59-f51c-4d6e-bf79-8cfe4e84c288"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fe875a67-e4b2-4441-bf0f-2fcd644649ce" id="8808b62a-bf6b-4637-8e8c-65e3ddfa9db4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7a2a9633-44ac-4cf7-885e-6d27afc4b02c" id="d8834502-a232-4918-b3ae-8b0df2eaaeb7"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9fefd95d-d264-49cb-9429-3d9882feeda2" id="2cb2cce2-7d9e-4711-900e-c20811080a97">holocaust</span></span></span></span> was really limited and while picking this book I was not sure what to expect from it. But the way Jodi Picoult has written this beautiful tale is really impressive. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">t is not easy to forgive even the simplest things, then how can you forgive someone who has done such a horrendous crime. Reading the story of Minka makes you feel nauseated, saddened and horrified at the same time. It is really hard to imagine that some people can be so ruthless. And the most saddening is the plight of survivors who live their whole life with those deep scars.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">There are too many stories running, but they are so beautifully woven together that you never feel like putting the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006">boo</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006">k</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d299925-3d2e-40cc-b485-78971c213519" id="2c65b979-b5d9-417b-b8ec-808c2ac43006"></span> down. There are times when I felt like '<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d19a086-5b0c-4f57-bfbd-ceda34912a89" id="b053135b-b73e-4ca0-ac2f-b05938948c62">no</span> this has never happened in real' but there are survivors for telling the truth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">The only thing that I didn't like was the ending of the book. I think if you have read Jodi Picoult's book, then it comes as something expected. Yet the book is a must read.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"> For me this book was a wonderful read<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="99e50da3-af53-49c1-946d-f080032e33ed">,</span></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1502c5b2-0325-47e7-bb3d-104b1b764fa1" id="8aa82dc4-6d64-4559-a5e5-6733a4bc34b3"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="99e50da3-af53-49c1-946d-f080032e33ed"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="99e50da3-af53-49c1-946d-f080032e33ed">t</span></span>hough painful at times, especially when the horrors of Holocau<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="929f38ba-b2f4-4aee-bb54-dbe124dd8ccc">st </span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="929f38ba-b2f4-4aee-bb54-dbe124dd8ccc"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="929f38ba-b2f4-4aee-bb54-dbe124dd8ccc">w</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">e</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">r</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">e </span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">d</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">e</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">scribed</span> </span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">but still worth it</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">.</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">I</span> <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2"> w</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">i</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="71780744-b3f4-4f47-8e4a-b8630114dd19" id="7817a645-1dfb-4103-9115-c4a9b0c738a2">l</span>l recommend it to others too<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce">. </span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce">I</span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce">n</span></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="f1cb2c52-657e-4a0a-a4fd-a21f3a0fc512" id="6902dd2f-8a56-4661-94f3-2062ee0957ce"></span> my opinion it is a must read.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.</i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it. </i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?</i></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?</i></span></span></span></li>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-71621741774262184352014-06-25T20:31:00.002+05:302014-06-26T15:36:00.246+05:30Things I learned from Harry Potter :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are reading this then by now you know that I am a Harry Potter fan. No, the word 'fan' would be an understatement, I would say that I am literally Harry Potter obsessed. I have read the whole series by almost 75 times till now and I am currently re-reading it :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Some of the best things about this series is that they gave me some of the best life lessons throughout my growing years. So here is a list of some of the things that I learned from Harry Potter:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. It's perfectly okay to be different. The thing that is more important is to be yourself :)</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-85416911292245236342014-06-07T19:35:00.000+05:302014-06-07T19:35:36.039+05:30My summer love!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Okay, first thing first this heat is killing me, I mean literally every time I step out it feels like standing in the middle of a volcano (If I can still feel anything after that!!). But even if it feels like I will soon be drowning in my own sweat<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e1543c4-c202-414c-919f-c6513d3a8e24" id="77fe97fd-2e58-4152-872e-0be5f170ef48"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="edb58163-cef8-4733-8bb9-5f16d9f8ceca" id="0f9358d4-340f-4e75-a406-5d86323e73a1"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="af19697a-967d-4d51-8052-c911e1757eaa" id="02f057e3-ffd8-4e71-b914-5feba0609b58"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="941fa01a-3fe0-485b-a6aa-d8f2396cfedf" id="e46f6347-487c-4197-80ab-68c793423935">(</span></span></span></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0e1543c4-c202-414c-919f-c6513d3a8e24" id="4efa7520-360e-4752-aa2f-d01530aa5696"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="edb58163-cef8-4733-8bb9-5f16d9f8ceca" id="3473f8d4-3bc2-4733-9aaf-f7c01107761c"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="af19697a-967d-4d51-8052-c911e1757eaa" id="2a49d1c8-678f-4e72-9672-6386012742c4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="941fa01a-3fe0-485b-a6aa-d8f2396cfedf" id="3e7872f8-65c3-4b1f-9f4d-4dfb83948fe6">yucks</span></span></span></span>), I still love summers. Oh yes!! <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ade7b919-4763-4a95-b407-7498f374bd2c" id="e3beca3d-985a-4f18-925f-3d73c3854f20"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3fb8472f-cf67-431a-b316-498a4aa42c5e" id="0bca2a8d-f62f-453c-8d02-0ea93721e0c1"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1432e9b8-8142-44d7-8378-f75c136766de" id="14dfcc09-01ff-483d-8931-e52bd14a83f5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="63500daa-7687-4711-96f0-4820fe5af70a" id="9e6ac4ee-e473-49fc-b765-92c89d4034db">and</span></span></span></span> the only reason for this is Watermelons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I am a fruity person (if something like that exists), I love almost every fruit, but there is a special place for watermelons. Mostly everyone in summers waits for mangoes but not me. It's not that I don't like mangoes I love them, but watermelon hold a special place in my heart. Every time I saw a roadside vendor selling them my eyes start shining. I can have watermelon three times a day. And that too without any regret of not doing any exercise and hogging too much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you come home after spending a whole day in scorching heat, eating a chilled watermelon is the best way to refresh yourself. These days I am enjoying these ruby red pieces to the fullest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But this love affair was not always the case. There was a time I used to hate this delicacy just because I used to think that <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="336c6089-11c3-4d60-957e-c7c19b32073a" id="155d6dd0-977b-485f-b7c4-51bc18729dc9"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3ec1d0fa-e451-4045-8168-eea720b5a4fc" id="b8b06364-2104-4d0e-9ae6-2f16c9b5b830"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="df044ebf-4f36-4417-b635-554b01a5aba4" id="4810729e-46c7-41ac-88b0-770a003e7fe5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4e8eef55-7778-4af3-804b-2ebf5952ff7c" id="b2e74ac4-4c2a-4b70-bba9-b4f798a35490">its</span></span></span></span> really messy to eat with all those seeds spilling out from every piece. But then daddy dearest came to my rescue and shown me the perfect way to spit seeds in between teeth. I'm telling you this is the best way to enjoy watermelon but don't let your mom see the mess you create.</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-26718963891554682722014-05-21T22:35:00.000+05:302014-05-21T22:35:42.077+05:30Post Great Election Tamasha!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />So here ends The Great Indian Election Circus and what a superb ending it is with lots of emotion drama celebrations and also disappointments. I guess everybody had expected the same results also. Finally, we can take a break from all these Modi and Rahul jokes. But what next, I mean what is going to change by the change in government.<br /> </span><br />
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-82883771562023236352014-05-17T18:44:00.000+05:302014-05-17T18:46:31.254+05:30Book Review- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Goodreads Blurb: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan--charismatic and impulsive--finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty: he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he comes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind--including those <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="02d2dd05-7b5d-491c-ae6a-d051182b7a3b" id="f8b7dc59-799f-474d-a8de-88a24bcb5157"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="99e524b5-1643-42c2-b657-98a78ce310a3" id="ffa57b10-50a7-4202-b0a2-82408150ac97">seared</span></span> in the heart of his brother's wife.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">The Lowland</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"> expands the range of one of our most dazzling storytellers, seamlessly interweaving the historical and the personal across generations and geographies. This masterly novel of fate and will, exile and return, is a tour de force and an instant classic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">This is a complex story which deals with two lives Gauri and Subhash joined by a common thread Udayan. The story deals with the aftereffects of a tragedy that strikes on Subhash and Gauri with the death of Udayan and how their lives change post that. It deals with how the relationship of Gauri and Subhash progressed from strangers to a couple and parents and again to strangers.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.31999969482422px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><i>“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c70a3b64-c33a-4530-8e0c-c6a03e2d9c73" id="4d99d581-8ce0-49a3-ae66-71180d162ab8">alone but</span> from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.” </i></span></span></span></li>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-73638997050961399952014-04-24T00:38:00.002+05:302014-04-29T09:41:57.456+05:30Banaras- Colors of India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />Last month I got a chance to visit " Shiv Ki Nagari" Kashi. As I was there for only one day and have to attend GD-PI of FMS-BHU, but still I wanted to explore the city as much as I can. With just 6-7 hours in our hand, we (me and my dad) started exploring one of the oldest cities in the world.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main Gate Of BHU</td></tr>
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<br /> Varanasi or what locals say Banaras has many faces as a city. It is a colorful blend of religion, culture, spirituality, food and so many other things which symbolize India. Roaming in those narrow lanes, being a part of the chaos of the city made me feel real India.<br /><br /> Our first stop after leaving from BHU was Guru Ravidas Mandir, which is the birth place of Guru Ravidas <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="7eab970e-6a64-4246-a8e3-d2add93cc621" id="baac90a2-223f-4984-bf0d-0d9c1b628b98"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4621691b-a31b-4617-8e85-c274fc08ef77" id="7dc4032b-3ec4-436c-8fbb-3403cc35f1d4">ji</span></span>. It is a small temple near BHU and it is said that Guru Ravidas used to live and do Bhakti at this place.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guru Ravidas Mandir (that's my dad!!)</td></tr>
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<br />Our next destination was <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="207f303f-54fa-497d-b3fa-11f8b6003848" id="f4cc9ede-2b56-4868-9317-028d9ba0ab2b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2d036e97-1994-4be0-9a81-6831c2d075d4" id="c52d0e59-6666-4557-aa60-7777462d2aa4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4ad901b9-419a-4a3c-89f5-34ba843fd0fe" id="25f0574f-0351-4beb-a501-1c172b848999">Kashi Vishvanath Temple</span></span></span> and the first thing that I noticed that the whole place was swarming with devotees from all across India. Mobiles and cameras were not allowed in the temple premises. After an hour of jostling with the crowd we had our <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="33ef283d-d684-4ebb-af99-3532c8671ce9" id="43d441bf-d40b-47c7-a3c4-c60a67798482"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a7a1c6ee-915c-4c30-8a42-9d1cb422cf0d" id="61705cd7-28da-40ba-8699-d3ff41a0e7a4"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="205d0fac-3d21-460d-b219-2de8a6c233ea" id="98b44a60-cebe-42f8-bd0b-a94203535147">darshan</span></span></span> and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="33ef283d-d684-4ebb-af99-3532c8671ce9" id="7ef40d52-eadd-45f5-ab14-d66fa53914e8"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a7a1c6ee-915c-4c30-8a42-9d1cb422cf0d" id="439bc20e-fd51-4954-b0a4-71d0348c6ed0"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="205d0fac-3d21-460d-b219-2de8a6c233ea" id="dcedf5cf-d3cb-4c4d-a6d8-33b43f68bc39">pooja</span></span></span>. Another thing that I noticed there, the whole place was so dirty and walking barefoot in the temple for a non-religious person like me was a torture.<br /><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Main Gate of Kashi Vishvanath Mandir</td></tr>
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<br /> After that came the most exciting part of the whole trip The Boat Ride. After a lot of bargaining, we reserved a boat for one hour at the price of 150 per person. As we started our ride, boatmen went on with the stories and history of every ghat that we came across. Various activities were going on the ghats and it was a really captivating view.<br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Various Activities going on Ghats</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As we had our train at 7 pm, we missed Ganga Aarti (may be some other time sad <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c88d61dd-90a3-43c9-b841-de08d1628cc1" id="db1afa54-cdcd-41ce-bda2-a0934a6595d5"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="aa7ad9df-59f2-4679-9d54-38ad2595ebf9" id="679e20fe-ec54-4f38-9331-6cb1ff6283c2"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1ed1449f-b0a0-451e-8b50-4915a2b5f197" id="321d00f5-535a-497b-b174-f9469737aedc">na</span></span></span>!) and decided to roam around the market before going back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, we were too short of time and missed many things, but I still experienced the essence of Banaras. In spite of its overcrowded temples, dirty lanes and weird traffic rules Banaras have this old world charm which didn't fail to amaze me. I wish I could spend some more time roaming in those narrow lanes and can feel real Banaras.</span><br />
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-46898355191012994872014-04-07T15:44:00.000+05:302014-04-07T15:44:45.629+05:30Book Review : ROOM By Emma Donoghue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Author:</b> Emma Donoghue </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Goodreads Blurb<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3a25d0de-514e-4730-9266-f3b1caab377c" id="150962b0-109b-4588-a3e2-b65e307e4a2b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a9f407f2-2442-42ed-a51c-c62116dfb1d3" id="94c0c66a-a2e6-4a6f-916f-d5392fb23c97">:</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12pt;">To a <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3a25d0de-514e-4730-9266-f3b1caab377c" id="d86cf51a-6c69-4705-b722-02d77d66a831">five</span>-year-old Jack, Room is the entire
world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as
they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him
safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3c87b088-f300-41da-97f2-8b24d673f795" id="736b8f20-c572-486a-a355-e2663f97e45b"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="172b0bf4-c597-4c04-9786-f9d073052d92" id="a42d8bff-02d6-4968-8ce4-bce8a8e217a2">Room</span></span> is home to
Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="3c87b088-f300-41da-97f2-8b24d673f795" id="9664a684-6f2b-43ca-9ad1-30f8081bd875"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="172b0bf4-c597-4c04-9786-f9d073052d92" id="46603f0d-e9c8-4270-a2a6-20de6d9e8797">has held</span></span> her captive for seven
years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d7c0e2be-0f07-4e1e-a40c-8ec3c1d39d1b" id="4bbb06da-bc0f-4865-b2ca-d6228de756ea"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4e3fcbdf-350d-4ce3-87b9-43a6800226f2" id="aafa14e6-4332-47b7-9aa5-9859f5f88000">has
created</span></span> a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a93a8376-a49f-4a09-9db7-b5ab04119614" id="91d52819-c47e-48af-b427-3d4741272a7f">..<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6818dab3-388f-4382-a632-8e2a7e8c60d9" id="726b3469-14aa-40de-abc1-f3eedc18bac0">.</span></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6818dab3-388f-4382-a632-8e2a7e8c60d9" id="726b3469-14aa-40de-abc1-f3eedc18bac0"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6818dab3-388f-4382-a632-8e2a7e8c60d9" id="726b3469-14aa-40de-abc1-f3eedc18bac0"></span><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6818dab3-388f-4382-a632-8e2a7e8c60d9" id="726b3469-14aa-40de-abc1-f3eedc18bac0"></span>not for her or for
him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery
and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for
the plan to actually work.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Told entirely in
the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a
celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a
brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to
another.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My Views:</b> I have heard a lot about this book and its plot and it sounded really disturbing to me. So I was not sure what to expect from this book. But from the very first page I was hooked to the book. The fact that the whole story is narrated by a five-year old makes it really different. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first half of the book revolves around the life of Jack and Ma and how they have created a whole world inside the room. Their daily life and the struggles for basic necessities like food, clothes and every other thing was really disturbing yet endearing. And then they escape that confinement and become free. But for little Jack it is not easy to digest the fact that they are not going back to Room which was his home till now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> The second half of the book deals with the new life of Jack and Ma in the world. While Ma is coping up with post traumatic depression, Jack is trying to understand the place called <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0bcc381d-4af9-4883-b54e-4287c1bcc226" id="2a05d858-8141-40ab-a829-bcf0ccd17eb2">world</span> and how different it is from the life in <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0bcc381d-4af9-4883-b54e-4287c1bcc226" id="8d4ed164-2e40-47af-a5ae-9588f5308a60">Room</span>. The book is such a compelling read that I can't put it down. But I am slightly disappointed with the end, I think its kind of abrupt. But I know that it was the most apt closure.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This is a story which will stay with you for a long time. Even with their dark and horrible circumstances, both Jack and Ma deal so beautifully with their lives. For me the whole story symbolizes hope, hope that some day everything will be alright.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Beautiful and well paced, this a must read for everyone.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Favorite Quotes:</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="08f8553f-28c9-443d-a2ac-b6e8116f20b7" id="09263bf8-1517-46b3-a074-c24874f58098">...</span>I don't know how persons wit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">h jobs do the jobs and all the living as well<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="08f8553f-28c9-443d-a2ac-b6e8116f20b7" id="b41609af-efba-4937-b40d-8700de34e2e3">...</span>I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”</span></i></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.</i></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room."<br />Ma says <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fec98766-40a4-43a1-af47-254b42a435f4" id="7c5777ee-17ae-44f7-b714-2b84f01deeab">it but</span> on mute.<br />I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.</i></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>My Ratings:</b> 4.75 out of 5</span></div>
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-49267982014725569702014-03-29T00:48:00.000+05:302014-03-29T00:48:14.864+05:30New Queen of Bollywood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know till now most of you had already watched the movie
and also thinking that oh again another one going gaga over it. And yes, you
are right, I was bowled over by the sheer simplicity of the story and the way characters
are weaved. Right from the start where Kangana is voicing her innermost
feelings to the end when she finally gave back her engagement ring, it is all
so simple yet so meaningful. Queen is the story of every other Indian girl who has little little expectations of her marriage and life partner. A simple girl who obeys every wish of the people she love and gives a backseat to her own dreams.<br />
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Rani is someone whom you can relate to, she has small wishes yet big dreams, she is trying to be confident yet scared. A girl who has never been outside Delhi wants to go Amsterdam, explore Paris. Then suddenly all dreams shatter, leaving her shocked to death. But the way she comes out of her sorrow is something remarkable<br />
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Then she starts off with the most beautiful yet most difficult journey of her life. A journey which gives her self-confidence, freedom, friends, and happiness. This is the journey where she discovers herself as well as the world around her. She makes friends, drink, dance, have fun and in the midst of all this finds the most important answers of her life.<br />
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At last when she come back to India, she is a confident girl who can take decisions of her life without any advice and help.<br />
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What I liked most about the movie was that the whole movie and characters are so relatable<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="64051e59-7e83-45b2-a9fa-ba04e7c4f99c" id="f0f786a4-aeb7-43ae-a7e5-d9801a6865e3"> and re</span>al. I have never been a big fan of Kangana Ranaut but after seeing her as Rani I would only say that this role is tailor made for her and she brings life to the character. Rani's dreams, her hesitation before her marriage, her shock when marriage breaks and the way she comes out of it, everything is so aptly done by Kangana. Every character is so up to the mark and songs doesn't look forced.<br />
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Another thing that is really remarkable about this movie is the way audience accepted this story. I mean if the movie had been released five years back either it would either be a flop or the end would have been different(they would have showed Rani going back to her good for nothing fiance ). but the way audience accepted this movie shows that time has come that our film industry should grow up and stop showing women as a showpiece. Time has come to show us some ground reality and not those big villas, oh so beautiful locations.<br />
Right folks!!!<br />
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Pratibhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14844885572862983286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4963791556979691167.post-39626326182923390872014-03-08T23:35:00.001+05:302014-04-13T21:31:14.737+05:30What Women’s Day really means.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what women’s day means to you???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Giving chocolates and flowers or updating an
inspirational status on Facebook or even better tweeting about it. That’s it,
right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Nowadays,
Women’s Day has been reduced to nothing but just another marketing gimmick. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sad na but
in one way or another we are increasing it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is high
time that we know what really women’s day means.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, it’s not about pampering her for that one
day, but it’s about respecting her all 365 days of the year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s not
about taking her to a fancy restaurant, but it’s about respecting her identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It's not
about giving her those pricey chocolates, but respecting her choices in life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s not
about giving her compliments on her dress, but accepting her the way she is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So stop
judging her on the basis of her clothing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="08887db2-57a0-4a0e-b665-309aaa7c1ebf" id="53ef0010-2864-426d-a365-4344648294be">No</span> she is
not inviting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you by wearing that dress,
what she wears is about herself, so stop giving yourself this much importance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start respecting her choices in life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So what if
she doesn’t want to marry, it’s her life her choices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry, but when she says no she means it, so
stop misinterpreting her wordings. Start respecting her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Start
treating her as equal. She is a human being first and then a woman, a wife, a mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Respect her dignity. Respect
her individuality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Let her live the way she
wants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Only then there would be any
meaning to these Women’s Day celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For me Women’s Day
celebration means when I can stand straight with my head held high and take
proud to say that yes I am a Woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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