Reader Review: Love @ Air Force By Gaurav Sharma

Book: Love @ Air Force

Author: Gaurav Sharma

Publisher: Blackbuck Publication

Genre: Romantic Fiction

Ratings: 4/5

ISBN: 9781630416287

Number of Pages: 287


Review Date: 28th January 2014

Review on behalf of - The ReadersCosmos


My Ratings:4/5

Plot – 4.5/5

Characters – 4/5

Style – 4/5

Climax – 4/5

Cover Page – 4/5

My Review:


I have reviewed this book from two aspects. 

Firstly, as a debut novel.The Author has spent extremely good amount of time in the research of life in defense. The technicality of the kin of decorum followed, the hierarchy of the positional values and the small strings of frustration in a married man's life. This is very well researched and well portrayed piece of work. Nowhere did I find information overload or dragging of the story to any unnecessary corner. 

The second aspect is the capability to design a plot. The character display is crystal clear. be it the beauty or the ugliness of a subject character or the innocence or political side of another, the author has done a great job. The fiction has in it, characters that are alive though words of the author. The plot is regular but the way it has been framed and portrayed, makes the story stand out.

Simple word, little printing mistakes here and there (that we really cannot blame the author) and flow even flow of the story offers a reader a happy reading feel.


On the whole, Love @ Air Force is a refreshing read.

Friends

Desire to do something should be kept alive by doing something.

20 years from now, when I look back to today, I would be less disappointed for the things I have done to keep this desire in me alive. I have done what I could do best, I have gathered no good names for myself but I have gathered a lot of courage to be myself.

I have given away my favorite toy to the one who never needed one, I have shared my love to the one who never loved back, I have promised to hold the hand of the one who is seven seas across the world and I have put all the effort to please all and got nothing in return.

I have offered them love to depend on me; I have cared for them to have faith on me and I am the one who have called them my friends to betray me.I might have not lost much, but a light inside me.

I have lost friends on the way of life, made enemies who are here to stay. Still when I look back, I am contented. I have done my part and owe nothing in return. Those times of hardship have only made me stronger, the bigger mistakes I have made have only transformed me to be wiser and my experience with them have given me the joy of looking back and telling myself what a fool I had been.

Friends I have lost and enemies I have made are the attributes who remind me of where I stand. They challenge me in what I am capable of. They remind me not to stop for them and they encourage me to keep going away to my destination. With them I know that I do not have to turn back now, my friend will be here to accompany me and the rest will step back.  They are the ones who remind me who to hold on to forever and who to call Friends. 

Strength !!

Gone are the days of pretty and useless women.

It is the time when life goes on through the push of the will power. To remain calm, perform well and accomplish as much as possible are the best attributes to keep going. A lot of things happen because it is meant to be so in order to make a woman strong. 

Things don’t happen by chance, they may be the best things that can happen to her. The fear that surrounds her is just a phase that will pass on. The fear does not always scare us; it also offers the strength to fight for somebody or something. Have the courage to stand there for you and intimidate you. It will eventually make you feel that you are not alone; you have yourself completely to you. 

Holding on to things that do not belong to you comes from the mark of guilt and burden of insecurity. To let go, turn your back and walk away with determination is the silent strength that descents in you. Always remember, you are chosen for the worst because you have the strength to fight back and restore to your best being. 

After all these, when you smile at the rim of the sun shine and dance to the drops of the rain, there lies your freedom, your joy and your appreciation to be yourself.

Conversation !!

The beauty of a person, good or bad, holds in the conversation he or she makes with the surrounding. The difficult most skill set of an individual lies in the art of creating, continuing and finding way to converse. To find a person, you believe and you do, to share even the things you have never spoken to yourself about is heaven. The one who hears you out, the one who takes out time from their busiest days for you, to absorb all your thoughts and to embrace all your dreams is the one you can call a soul mate. You share your soul with that person…after all.

Theoretically, a soul mate is the one you share your life with but practically, he/she is the one who is only and always  in the blink of your eyes and skip of your heartbeat. That person will never let you be treated dreadfully, that person will never break your dreams. Those dreams are the ones that may never come true; those hopes are the ones that only grow with wishes. That soul mate will not shield you from the pain the world is filling you with. He/she will only be there to listen to you and share you disappointments. He/she will wait for your smile and feel hurt for your tear, but what matters more is their being there, present beside you to feel with you, what your heart feels.

You will be his/her rain man for precisely the same reasons. You both know that you are the two banks of the river who would stand in the two sides facing each other and appreciate each other’s presence. You would hold the hand through the heart and feel for each other and live your life collecting the moments of the days when you had planned to meet. With that person you would want to be everyone – a child, a teenager, a sick, a cripple, a whore, an orator, a fighter or a thinker. Being anyone you want to be would be as easy as walking up to someone in an unknown land to say hello and striking a good conversation.

We have choices of being busy with our works, files, books, televisions or even sleep….go out and find a person who would leave everything in the world to have a talk with you expecting just the same from you.

Sometimes talking to one another is about being silent. If silence is comfortable, one does not need to talk. If not ….. It is time to break the silence and say Goodbye !!

History of the Historical Times

There are soul searching topics of knowledge when it comes to history, especially when it is the combination of the history of two deep rooted nations and a link between them. They are India and UK.
I belong to the world’s largest democracy of date and the introduction stone of this historical episode was laid down long before the British Rule in India, when they had discovered the route to India for Trade and Commerce. Born in the then British capital of India, Kolkata, my hometown is adorned with history, geography, literature and art that collaborate very deeply with that in UK.

We have read history in a way that the historians have portrayed it from their point of view. I have seen and analyzed the history of India from my point of view. I would want to do the same if I could get a chance to study in the UK.

The Victoria Memorial hall was built by Lord Curzon in 1906 as a dedication to Queen Victoria. The Angel of Victory that sits on the top of the monument, also sits in the center of Queen's Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace. The architect of the wonderful memorial, Sir William Emerson designed the same in the UK.

It is said that he had come to India and designed the Crawford market in Mumbai and the All Saint’s Cathedral in Allahabad. Emerson studied the architecture of the Taj Mahal to build the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata for the Queen. Again he implemented Gothic Style to design the architecture of the All Saint’s Church.

In his work of Takhtsingji Hospital and the Nilambagh Palace, he studied the use of Hindu architectural elements in his work.

Further deep rooted are the history of great leaders and administrators and statues commemorates like Hastings, Cornwallis, Clive, Wellesley, and Dalhousie have their work and history both in the UK and India.

Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, another pioneer of engineering had contributed to the history and founded the Martin Co.

Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore, Keats and Michael Madhusudan Dutta all are a part of this celebrated history. The St.Paul’s Cathedral which is the seat of the Bishop in London has engraved history in relation to the St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata.

The lists of things are never ending. I could go on and on pouring my dreams and talking about my aspirations. I would walk down the Thames, the West Minster’s Abbey and spend days in the British Museum. Visit the National Gallery in London and the Natural History Museum, The Big Ben and the London Eye. I would want to visit the Buckingham Palace, Windsor Palace along with the other monuments of history.

It would be a dream come true to be able to visit the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the seven sisters by the English Channel, The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and definitely the Royal Observatory of Greenwich.

History is something one can get engrossed in the UK. It would be like meditating the rich and the royal beauty and walking the Sand of times with the opportunity from http://knowledgeisgreat.in/ initiated by the British Council.

Hair - line Facts !!

No one looks forward to a bad hair day. I often have had the lucky chance to escape my days with Sunsilk. Here is my story to http://www.sunsilk.in/

Starting from school days till date as we grow up and take our path of life, hair is the favorite part of our body for most or I must say all of us. When in school, the uniform did not make any style statement but the hairstyle did it all. From time and on, it shows that however fair or dark, ugly or beautiful, tall or short a person is, a good and healthy hair takes away the credit. A person can cover up most visual flaws if he or she has healthy and great hair. Even high heels loose the compliment if the person does not carry a great hair. 

Let me bring about a number of comparisons from my experiences.

In School – A beautiful girl sit with a pair of long plaits of oily hair. She is scratching the pencil tip inside her head. That’s her Bad hair day. Again a short mushroom cut jolly intelligent look of a girl strikes the smartness in her.

In College – A punked up dry, streaked hair girl trying her best to be friend of a dude on a bike. The Mr.Biker has his eyes fixed on the girl with long and bouncy haired, not so cool, oriental dressed girl with books in her hand.

In an interview – A very professionally attired jobseeker walks in as if she just crossed a desert storm. A pony tailed jobseeker looked more organized with her curriculum vita in hand to strike the job.

In a Party – A conscious lady just out from the salon with chemically done up hair that is gradually losing its charming as the time passes. She is more worried if the bomb she had paid the salon do their jobs of making her look impressive. An overjoyed lady with healthy and regularly cared for hair is been admired by all enjoying the music on the dance floor.

Healthy hair gives me confidence. I always had short cropped hair in school days. Remember our old school methods of hair care. Regular oiling, alternative days of shampooing and weekend care of Reetha, amla, curd and egg. As time passed by the hair care techniques changed. I grew my hair longer; the pigtail became ponytail and then came the plats. Oiling became regular and so did shampooing, weekend hair care changed to Mehndi and hot oil. Then came the days of styling time for new age hairdo where regular blow drying, hair styling, coloring and streaking came on. Time went by, everything changed. What did not change is the Sunsilk promise. Often the shampoo changed in flavor from satin to egg to black but the brand that promised me good hair and always been loyal with words have been Sunsilk only.

Reader Review: ASURA-Tale of the Vanquished

Book:    ASURA-Tale of the Vanquished

Author: Anand Neelakantan

Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

Genre:  Epic Mythology

Ratings: 4/5

ISBN: 9789381576052

Number of Pages: 500

Review Date: 11^th January 2014

Review on behalf of - Self

My Ratings:

Plot – 4.5/5

Characters – 5/5

Style – 5/5

Climax – 4/5

Cover Page – 5/5

My Review:

The notable aspect or the credibility of the author in formulating this book lies completely in the approach. The other side of the Ramayana, I would call this. In ages to come, we have hardly ever heard of a script that talk about Ravana and his point of view and his character portrayal. Author has done a tremendous job in highlighting that.

Again, for a debut writer, bringing down a 500 pages book where the reader is completely interested till the end with the ups and downs of Bhadra’s life.

A great read a good work. Waiting to read his next.

Reader Review - The Other Side : Faraaz Kazi and Vivek Banerjee

Book: The Other Side

Author: Faraaz Kazi and Vivek Banerjee

Publisher:  Mahaveer Publishers (Vaibhav Book Service)
Genre : Thriller

Ratings: 4.5/5
ISBN: 9350880768

Number of Pages: 320

Review Date: 7^th January 2014
Review on behalf of - ReadersCosmos

My Ratings:
Plot – 5/5
Characters – 5/5
Style- 4/5
Climax – 4/5
Cover Page – 3/5

My Review:

This book has portrayed tremendous illustration effort put by both the authors. The combination of the 2 writers has left no stones unturned to make the content so well defined. The anthology consisting of 13 stories by the 2 authors has most of the stories good and a few very good.

The stories are crisp and have its eerie feel now and then. The surrounding of suspense and a scary feel about what is going to happen next has been created in several places across the book in most of the stories. The balance in the stories is amazing. Never in the book would a reader find a climax high or an interest dip. Across the reading, the tempo of the plot has been managed and scripted in a clear and harmony. The best among the lot are definitely “Possession”, “Red Bangles”, and “Dream Girl”. The 2nds in the lot are “A Long Weekend”, “Stranger in the Night” and the “Fateful Night”.  This has been an interesting read of this Genre for sure.

The quotation here and there, the pictures and the approach to decorate the stories have been amazing. Just like Indian director mostly fail to create a scary movie, so do most authors. However, this book is one of the best works and really gives a feel of the surrounding. Complete justice done and a great work indeed.

Reader Review - Life Mantras By a Life Coach : Preeti Subberwal

Book: Life Mantras By a Life Coach

 Author : Preeti Subberwal

Publisher :  Power Publishers 
Genre : Life Coach
Ratings : 4.5/5
ISBN : 9789383271665

Number of Pages: 122

Review Date: 7^th January 2014
Review on behalf of - ReadersCosmos

My Ratings:
Plot – 4.5/5
Characters – NA
Style- 4/5
Climax – NA
Cover Page – 5/5

My Review:

This is a handbook that cannot be reviewed as a good, bad or best. The place of these 122 pages of glossy and beautiful looking book is at your bedside. It can be read as references to self explain one’s footsteps and deduce a meaning of one’s doings.

The author is a champion of the subject and has been successful to portray easy and positive ways of life. She has divided the book into 10 chapters which are 10 different topics of life coach. The points are interesting and doable. They are simple and attainable ways to happiness and keep the life curve to a positive high.

This is a very well researched handbook with quotes and references that influence the reader to a very high extent. Every page has been bordered with a quote that impacts the reader strongly. I simply loved the colorful look of the pages; it keeps the reader interested especially when it comes to a book where it is more of what we would call “Gyaan”.

The only error that caught my eye is in the 3 rd page of Ten Rules of Being Human By Cherie Carter-Scott. Here the Rule number 8 and rule number 9 are the same.

This is one of the must have books in the book counter of your study that one can refer all their life in times to come.