tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63137356991394545612024-03-14T10:10:45.547+05:30Book Reviews and DiscussionsThis is a platform to express our feelings and experiences about books we read or wanna read.There are more than 135 authors (globally) and 170 titles on the Blog till now and increasing day by day. Among contributors we have a international authors Laura Stamps & Peter Hunter author.Come. .If you want to contribute to this blog as an author then kindly contact us at aggarwal.prabal@gmail.com or vicksitis@gmail.comPrabal Aggarwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09064778459728944203noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6313735699139454561.post-76459550049915866942014-12-10T19:53:00.002+05:302014-12-10T19:53:37.237+05:30The Siege – The attack on the Taj, by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">India recently observed 6<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the unfortunate event of 26<sup>th</sup> November, 2008 when
just 10 terrorists from across the border had held the world’s fourth largest
city to ransom. We looked back at the incident when innocent families at CST
were shot dead by Ajmal Kasab, who somehow became the face of those attacks –
the attacks on India. However, the most shocking picture from that attack was
the one with the dome of the Taj Mahal Hotel set on fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Cathy Scott-Clark, takes back its readers to those unfortunate 68 hours
starting from the evening of 26<sup>th</sup> November, 2008. Every incident
explained in this book is a real incident from those 68 hours, and that is what
gave me goose bumps. The narrative of the story is based on the multiple interviews
with the survivors, policemen and journalists, complemented by investigation
reports and site visits. So, this is as real as it can get.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I am not a great fan of the
writing style of the authors who have jumped between multiple characters,
incidents and places in just a few pages creating confusion, I liked the
details that they went into. The book starts with the David Headley story,
leading up to Lashkar-e-Toiba and finally to the Taj. For me, there were times
when I felt angry about the incompetence of the Indian security forces to
manage just ten rats. There were other times when I put down the book to do my
google search and reconfirm if all what I’m reading is actually true, because
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, I liked the storyline, I
liked the research and I liked the detail. But I think it could’ve been a little
less confusing at times, and that it would have gone a little beyond just
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khaled Hosseini is turning out to be my favourite all-time author, thanks to his innovative storytelling style and the honesty in his stories. I have been a big fan of his first two books – <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Kite Runner</em>and <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Thousand Splendid Suns</em> – and I was excited when I first knew that his third book was about to release. And I must say it was a great experience reading this book and I was very happy that I picked this book over others in my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31030266-arun-sharma?shelf=to-read" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="To-read (GoodReads)">To-Read list</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This story does not have a lead character like I would have expected, but it’s even more exciting because of the multiple lead characters that it has. This is a story about a family whose three children have been separated by the conditions in Afghanistan and have lived completely different lives in the different parts of the world. While the eldest brother – Abdullah – has moved outside of Afghanistan and grown up with his daughter and wife, the sister – Pari – grew up in Paris with a lady whom she always thought to be her mother. The youngest stepbrother, Iqbal, got lost trying to make his living shuttling between the refugee camps of Pakistan and his parental village of Shadbagh in Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Khaled has told the same story from various perspectives – the perspective of every character in the story. This new style makes sure that you never lose the plot of the story and are always engaged to the story-line across the book. The story transports you very close to the Afghanistan that was marred by the constant fighting, attacks and destruction over decades; to the Afghanistan where the families were separated my miles, dollars and diseases.</span></div>
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This is the third novel by Ashwin Sanghi, I have read.<br />
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After reading first two, I was more than convinced that this will be definitely Robert Langdon style treasure hunt type of plot. Post reading The Krishna Key, I was not very hopeful from this novel.<br />
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But, to my surprise this is not at all Robert Langdon style. This is a novel, where Ashwin drew parallel between story of Chanakya in Ancient India and a story of shrewd modern day politician who simply changes the landscape of Indian Politics.<br />
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The plot is not as racy as The Rozabal Line and The Krishna Key and it doesn't gives lots of insights into ancient history and mythologies. But, this novel simply keeps you spell bound till the end.<br />
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And, I haven't seen any better way of replicating story of Chanakya, one of the greatest politician ever in the fiction.<br />
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This is the best novel by Ashwin Sanghi till date.<br />
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This is the second book by Ashwin Sanghi, I read. Though, I was expecting it to be Robert Langdon Style, but still wanted it to be more, after being thrilled by The Rozabal Line.<br />
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But, it was pure Robert Langdon style book. The author created the momentum, and introduced lot of characters, who projected huge potential especially at the climax. But, somehow couldn't do justice to most of them. The climax simply let me down.<br />
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Said all that, I must say the author has definitely did lot of research on the very subject of Krishna and Hindu mythology, and entices readers to go deeper in the search of Krishna and myths around him.<br />
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I will say the novel is average, but good read, if one doesn't compare it with other books by the author.<br />
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Prabal Aggarwal</div>
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Recently came across this novel. And the topic itself was very intriguing.<br />
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Another book on Jesus Christ and his blood line, but with the premises, Jesus died and buried in India.<br />
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It was the first book of Ashwin Sanghi, I read. And, I must say the book reminded me of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. But, the quality and plot of this novel was very different from Da Vinci Code.<br />
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And, I am bound to say we have got Indian Dan Brown finally.<br />
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The readers will definitely enjoy this edge of the seat read.<br />
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Prabal Aggarwal</div>
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Normally, in any novel or movie series, the first one is the best one. It sets a benchmark and raises expectations, resulting in anti climax in the sequels. But, this is a rare third and the final book, which is best.</div>
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The author, has played very well, with history and mythology . In this novel, he didn't only touch Indian and Tibet history & mythology like the first two books, but tried to actively weave Persian & Zoroastrian mythology into it, and briefly touched Egyptian mythology too. So, he triggered many subplots, which he was not able to close properly. I am not sure, but Amish might have thought about taking these unclosed subplots into full fledged separate series, or prequels.</div>
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All in all, very good fiction by an Indian Author, which has triggered new genre of Hindu Mythology, for masses.</div>
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After long time, I read John Grisham. The other two novels I have read are 'The Firm' and 'The Client'.</div>
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The story is about 2 mid aged lawyers, not doing well, and the third one, who is doing well, leaving everything and coming to join them, without any plan. And the story involves one of the biggest pharma companies in the world.</div>
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The novel is as racy as 'The Firm' and gives lot of insight into mindset & lifestyle of lawyers and anatomy of mass litigation.</div>
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I recommend this legal thriller, to everyone who wants to remain on edge till the end of the reading.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall it was a good read. But, I think the problem with it is high expectations I had due to fresh style of Abhay's debut book. Moreover some instances in the book, makes it really unrealistic, in the realistic plot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In nutshell, I will recommend this book if you haven't read 'Corporate Atyachaar'. And, I expect that Abhay will try to keep freshness and maverick way of story telling up to the mark in his next book.</span></div>
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Exams done, graduation in a month, convocation a week after that. Me and dorm mates were sitting and thinking about the two years that went by. A couple of years back, we were skeptical about how easy or difficult it will be to go back to college after having worked for a few years. No salary no more, the rigor of academics. Were we up to it? Two years and a MBA degree later, we are discussing life after IIMA. Looking back at how we ended up at this juncture, how different would the work life be with the new degree.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We concluded that, ‘Life is tough’ and ‘People are stupid’. And this applies to each and every one of us, no matter how smart. In retrospect, we were absolutely naive during our first few work years. And yet luckily things worked out for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">There are thousands of graduates from various universities all over the country, who join the workplace with all the relevant technical skills. But is that enough? What else does it take to thrive in a competitive business environment? And to find answers to this was born the first book of the Elf series – ‘From Cubicles 2 Cabins: a survival guide to your first job’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Want to know more ??? 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Forward this mail to all you think would benefit ! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Warm Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sanket J Dantara [ http://elfseries.wordpress.com/ ]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align: justify;margin-bottom: 20.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 20.45pt; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-family: inherit, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></span></div><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Pink’s Book <br />By Peter A Hunter<br /><br />Managers, recognising that Command and Control Management is no longer working, have been looking for the “something” to give to their workforces that will allow them to perform. <br /><br />Their greatest mistake is assuming they know what it is that their workforces need.<br /><br />All that managers really have to know is how to give their workforces what they already want.<br />All they really have to figure out is what that is. <br /><br />Daniel Pink in his book “Drive” tells us what the workforce already want, and he also shows us how to give it to them.<br /><br />There is a growing awareness today of the destructive nature of traditional management practices, usually called “Command and Control Management.”<br /><br />Our workforces have long been aware of these problems but nobody ever listened to them. <br />What we are seeing today is an increasing volume of academic endeavour focussed on making management aware of those same problems because, as Dan Pink says;<br /><br />“Management is not the solution, Management is the problem.”<br /><br />Unfortunately management are not aware of the problems they create so they have no reason to look for solutions.<br /><br />Daniel Pink, in this book “Drive,” not only very clearly and elegantly brings the problems to the attention of the reader but has also gone into some detail laying out many solutions that can be mixed and matched to suit individual circumstances/organisations.<br /><br />All that we need to happen now is that the right people read this book, understand from Daniel Pinks analysis that they are the problem, and that they continue to read it as far as the solutions.<br /><br />The book is divided into three separate parts;<br /><br />The first takes the reader from a current position, perhaps of vague discomfort, or a mild annoyance that not everything seems to fit.<br />From this position Dan Pink takes us on a journey that starts, in time, in the late forties through an accumulation of seventy years of academic endeavour, largely disregarded because it did not fit with accepted notions of management and behaviour.<br /><br />Dan summarises this section neatly with his “Seven Deadly Flaws of Carrot and Sticks.” Which he says can:<br />· extinguish Intrinsic motivation<br />· diminish performance<br />· crush creativity<br />· Crowd out good behaviour<br />· encourage cheating, shortcuts and unethical behaviour<br />· become addictive<br />· foster short term thinking<br /><br />Together these flaws sum up the conditions that a conventional “Command and Control Management,” approach will create.<br /><br />Dan quotes Richard Ryan who said that we all have the “Drive,” that is the title of the book, and that it is a part of our humanity, but whether it emerges, or not, in our lives depends on whether the conditions that surround us will support it.<br /><br />In our working lives “Drive” tells us that these conditions are created by those who manage us. <br /><br />What the first section of the book does is expose the management behaviour that crushes our “Drive” and leaves a potentially able and imaginative workforce unable to do original work, be creative or think for themselves.<br /><br />Many managers will read this first section and genuinely believe that it does not apply to them. <br />These are the people who believe that the world begins and ends with them, who believe that without them nothing will happen and that other people exist to be used. <br /><br />These are the people whose behaviour Dan Pink likens to coal.<br />“Cheap, easy, and efficient to resource but polluting and ultimately finite.”<br /><br />The type of behaviour that must replace this antediluvian management model, Daniel compares to the Sun; “Clean energy that is inexpensive, safe to use and endlessly renewable.” <br /><br />The book, having brought us to an understanding of the historical support for “Drive,” examines in more depth what this Drive actually consists of, how we can tap its potential and finally a whole host of tools that we can use on Monday morning to start to release the “Drive” that exists inside every single member of our workforce.<br /><br />Daniel H. Pink with his book “Drive” has captured what generations of managers have never felt the need to acknowledge, that every single member of the workforce has experience, imagination and “Drive.”<br /><br />The time will shortly be upon us when an organisation that has not released the “Drive” of it own workforce will not be able to compete in the same marketplace as those who have.<br /><br />Those who have, will likely have read this book.<br /><br />Peter A Hunter<br />www.breakingthemould.co.uk<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, this book is written by one of the most notorious hackers Kevin D Mitnick, who is now acting as Cyber Security Consultant to many companies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While reading this book, I came to understand, doesn't matter how hard we make Cyber Security, but in vain. For Cyber Security, has at its heart humans to operate it. And human is the weakest link in the security.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The book is written in very unconventional method, giving the insight to the mind of a hacker. And points out, how corporate professionals, unintentionally invites hackers and viruses to their company, opening the whole maze in front of them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though its related to Cyber Security, but this book is not technical. So any common man with the normal knowledge about internet and computers, can gain a lot from it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, I think, this book should be made mandatory in every organisation where heavy dependence on IT is there</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I tried to read many books on Nazis and most hyped Mein Keimph too, but didn't get much out of them. As most of them were biased, and none was able to answer, what made the whole nation go crazy for the bloodiest Genocide in the history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But, while reading this book, I got answers to most of the questions, I have been seeking, since I came across the History chapters on WW I and II, during my high school.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though the book is quite bulky, with the not so friendly font size, but then the history so profound, can't be written in precis writing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I will recommend this book, to everyone who is seeking answer to the questions I have mentioned.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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