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Book Review : Night At The Medical Campus

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Book Name: Night At The Medical Campus Author: Siddharth Nirwan Publisher: Book Street Publications Genre: Horror Format: Paperback/Ebook Print length: 161 pages  Rating: 4 /5 Night At Medical Campus by Siddharth Nirwan is a horror novel that explores serial killing by a ghost. Blurb on Amazon Brutally murdered by the one she loved and her body dumped in a well on the medical college campus, Sanya’s bright and promising life is extinguished in a second. And it’s only the beginning as her body goes missing from the mortuary, never to be found again. Legend grows and the medical college students believe that Sanya still haunts the well where she was found. No one dares venture too close. No one dares to disturb her. Years later, notorious seniors force five first-year students into going to the haunted well and calling Sanya’s name thrice. No one is prepared for what happens next. Is the story of Sanya’s ghost true, or is it just a fabricated rumour to scare the juniors? Why is no on
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Book Review : Lessons In Chemistry

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Book Name: Lessons In Chemistry Author: Bonnie Garmus Publisher: Penguin Genre: Society & Culture, Historical Fiction Format: Paperback Print length: 400 pages  Rating: 4.5 /5 Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry is a thought-provoking novel set in the 1960s. It features a brilliant chemist, Elizabeth Zott, who finds herself navigating a world dominated by men.  Blurb on Amazon 'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' Sunday Times ‘A page-turning and highly satisfying tale’ – Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Forced to leave her job at the institute, she soon finds herself the reluctant star of America's most beloved
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Book Review : Before We Forget Kindness

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Book Name: Before We Forget Kindness Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Publisher: Panmacmillan Genre: Time Travel Format: Paperback Print length: 203 pages  Rating: 3.5 /5 Before we forget kindness by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is translated from Japanese to English by Geoffrey Trousselot. It is the fifth book in the series “Before the Coffee Gets Cold,” following the lead of its unique melancholic atmosphere with introduction of new characters and another cafe that helps people travel through time similar to the one with which the series started. In this book, the pattern remains the same as other books in the series. There are four stories where people travel through time either in the past or future to meet a loved one. Blurb on Amazon In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn'
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A Lone Diwali

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Diwali, the festival of lights, or as Arushi would quote, "The festival that brings hope and sense of renewal," was around the corner, and Arushi struggled to decide where to celebrate it.  Arushi was an independent single woman who lived in Gurugram in a shared three-bhk flat with her flatmates. She worked in an MNC where holidays on Indian festivals were limited or even no holiday at times. On other festivals, she would manage to stay back in Gurugram as the celebrations would last for a day or two, but whenever Diwali season was on, it made her struggle with her choice to visit home or stay at her flat.  While visiting the local market, she noticed vendors setting up shops selling diyas, lights, colorful decorations, and many more entities. It reminded her of her childhood when she visited the market with her mother and siblings to buy decorative items to adore their house. The nostalgic feeling moistened her eyes, but she held back and kept strolling in the market. Someth
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Book Review : Aumnism - The First Ray of Dawn

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Book Name: Aumnism Author: Swapnil Arora & Shyamiva Publisher: Bluerose Genre: Spiritual Fiction Format: Paperback Print length: 255 pages  Rating: 3.8 /5 Aumnism by Swapnil Arora and Shyamiva is a spiritual fiction that explores themes like love, life, existence and interconnectedness of all beings navigating through different births and excelling with different energies from negative to positive enlightening through dark and light. Blurb on Amazon In Aumnism, four people's lives intersect as they search for spiritual enlightenment, contentment and the protagonist Avi discovers the power of true love along the way. With each person's journey, they learn more about themselves and the universe around them. This book showcases the many ways in which fate can bring our lives back together, for good. With characters engulfed in relationships that delve deep into spiritual significance, this is a path that will leave you enlightened with newfound understandings on life and
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Book Review : Sanatan

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Book Name: Sanatan Author: Sharankumar Limbale Publisher: Vintage Books (Imprint of Penguin Random House) Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Hardcover Print length: 248 pages  Rating: 4 /5 Sanatan by Sharankumar Limbale is historical fiction translated from Marathi to English by Paromita Sengupta that depicts the inhuman discrimination towards Mahars by the upper caste. Blurb on Amazon Sanatan is the gut-wrenching story of Bhimnak Mahar and his ilk, who have been subjected to barbaric abuse and inhuman discrimination by the upper castes over centuries. The story begins with the young Bhimnak in pre-Independence India. It then traverses time and geographical boundaries to end with Bhimnak’s grandson. The circular narrative pattern is reflective of the endless cycle of pain that the Mahars are unable to break free from, no matter how hard they try, no matter where they go, no matter if they change their identity and religion. Using myths, the Puranas and historical texts as resource
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