India Unbound

                             I always belive “money has NO value attached to it, unless it has been properly invested “. One of the finest investments (excluding gifts to relations & friends) ,  is buying a  book – ‘INDIA unbound by guru charan das ” -.  I did that on my first month salary. I took more time than any other book to finish it, partly due to my training and partially due to my prejudice on some matters which made to constantly argue/discuss with myself.

                                   Author takes us through the events of India from the independence till the new millennium in his perspective. The book is essentially about why and how, the highly productive India became poor and how it would gain became rich. We can have a close insight of nehruvism socialism /democratic socialism-as called by this author – or mixed economy ,with which the Nehru dreamt of building the new India . The author is highly critical  of the bureaucracy and license raj -only particular enterprise having particular license can produce certain products- which were responsible for the chances   India missed from 1960’s until the markets opened in 1991.he came with numerous case studies to prove his point like aditya birla leaving India and building a empire on foreign soils , TATA group refused numerous projects while late dhirubhai ambani being the lone exception to create a business empire –result of blend of shrewd intelligence and ability to bend laws – . From 1991,s when the economic blockade is removed, it waved for the new hope for millions of Indian where playfield is level and new group of enthusiastic young Entrepreneurs started developing..

                                    Author, former CEO of P&G is a unmistakable flag bearer of capitalism and highly critical of socialism . I would like to know his views on present state of economics of biggest exhibitors of capitalism ( USA ).

                                     Though I have some reservations about how the author look at certain issues , I love reading this book. Simply because it has kindled my appetite for reading books on contemporary   history .and i strongly recommand you to read this one .

 i have zero in on some of the books which i would be willing to read in the near future

* “India after gandhi” by ramachandra guha

* “my life ,my country” by LK advani , i really wanna know what this rightist politician-who has a  significant  influence  in dividing the people on religion – (sorry , if I’m wrong J ) , have to say about the last 50 years

*”discovery of india” – jawaharlal nehru , to knew his viewpoints

 

The 3 mistakes of my life

“The 3 mistakes of my life” is the third book by chetan bhagat . i like the way this

author presents his books.His way of presentation is pretty simple . i loved his

previous works. and decided to read this one too and  i have been trying for sometime

to get this book, but in trichy it  has been out of stock . and  At last i got this

one  via e-shopping .

Author narrates the story via hero(govind) like his previous book (one night @call

center) . The plot  is about govind and his  friends ishaan , omi and his 3 mistakes

which make a big impact on his life . They open a cricket shop and incidents aftermath

decide their fate . The story has a cricket ,business,romance and religious

politics too . The  story is tied to realistic incidents which make the plot much more

interesting towards the end and make us visualize the calamities  .Though This book is

a  pure entertainer genre  ,author has touched some critical incidents and different view points using the characters

few lines from the book

” i hate a display of emotion more than emotion itself”

” it’s ok i don’t become a player,but it’s not ok if i am not an Indian”

” The great thing about girls is that even during pauses in conversation  you can look

at them and not get bored”

 

The Alchemist

The Alchemist is written by paulo cohelo .. this is a story of a shepherd , who chases his dreams from spain to pyramids in egypt. the boy , becomes a shepherd  in his eager to travel the world and  his life takes a turn when  he saw a old king who makes him to chase his dreams . in his long journey , boy understands the language of his world with the help of an alchemist and finally realize his destiny and  this book is about chasing our dreams and realizing once destiny.

some lines, that caught my attention ..

” “If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that
makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny,”

 

My Days @ Hogwarts :)

when all the hype created with the realease of harry potter and the deathly hallows , last book of the harry potter series . i decided to have a shot at harry potter. it turned out to be much more enjoyable than i thought. i read first 4 books last year but i cant continue reading the rest in the series due to my project works. since i was a enjoying a break now, i was able to continue and complete my journey into the wizarding world of harry potter

it is story about the surivial adventures of harry potter along with this friends ron weasley , hermoine granger and Dumbledore , most powerful wizard & headmaster @ hogwarts against the dark wizard “he-who-must-not-be-named” , LORD voldemort . book starts with harry joining the hogwarts school at 11 and each book describes a years experinence of harry potter . the book is written in the perpective of harry potter with few expections, so it would make you to travel with him .The book just took me to the whole new world of magic and magical creatures .i liked the imagination with which the book has written , with wands, lot of spells , historical references and so on. all the individual characters have something spl but i feel 2 characters made the novel much more interesting to read and for the plot of the story . They were sirius black , harry’s godfather and snape , potions’s master @ hogwarts. i liked the 6th book ,”harry potter and half-blood prince” the most.

i just played a quiz to find ” who am i ” in harry potter .. the results say that , i was
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Harry Potter

 

ponniyian selvan

this is  one of the books,which gives u the pleasure of reading a story to the core.i read this book exactly 4 years ago, after that i have read this another 2 times. this is one of the biggest books ,you can find to read yet it is enjoyable.description of the plot and characterization would make u visvalize the story in front. plot of the story is set on 10th century . it starts with the journey of ‘vandhiydevan’ as a messagener from karaikal cholan ,the crown prince to his sister kundhavai and the events after that. the story is written in such a way that everyone would admire ‘arunmozhivarman’,hero of the plot  but u would like vandhiyadevan ‘the most’ . after the reading the book , it aggrevated my thirst for knewing anciet tamil history and i read few books regarding the cholos . this is the one of the stories , which should be taken as a movie which has all the ingreidents of the good commericial movie . i just was thinking about the cast for the film  and my cast is

karikal cholan: vikram
kundhavai : jothika
ponniyian selvan: Ajith
vandhiyadevan: vijay
periya paluvatiyar: sathya raj
chinna paluvatiyar: napolean
alwaradigan:nasser/prakesh raj
nandhini: thrisha
manimagalai:laila
vanathi:sneha
sentan amudhan: prasanna
pookuzhali: priyamani
prime minister: sivakumar
parthiva pallavan: arjun
kandhanmaran: riyas khan
if u knew tamil and u have slighest of interest in history , then u would surely  miss

something in life without reading this epic. some of the things which made a impression one me

were
* kundhavai-vandhiyadevan love
* vandhiyadevan-alwaradigan duo
* nandhini ’s characterization
* vandhiyadevan’s adventures
* prime minister’s intelligence
* ponniyian selvan’s tejas
* manimagalai’s end
* pookuzhali’s courage