Rich Dad Poor Dad: Review

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki is a book that gives you an idea of how much the financial literacy matters. Robert says his friend's dad as a rich dad and his dad has a poor dad. He started gaining financial knowledge from his rich dad during his childhood. We can't get financial literacy from school or college, they never teach us about it few who graduated finance have financial literacy. His rich dad knows how to make money work for him but his poor dad works for money. Robert's dad will blame the government or his school for not giving an increment with promotion and his crisis while his rich dad changed his thought.  Robert was a man from a middle-income family who started thinking the way rich thinks and became rich.

He gives us simple examples to understand the difference between assets and liabilities. Some times we buy certain things as an asset but it is a liability. There are a lot of things he makes us understand and work for our financial freedom.

This is the book I read in 2019 which made me to take step towards my financial freedom. This is an easy read with lucid writing. I think everyone in their 20's and 30's should read it. Financial literacy is very important, this book gives you the thirst to learn more to become financial literate and attain financial freedom.

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Love Your Body: Review

Love Your Body by Jessica Sanders is all about Self-Care and Self-Love. Many of us have lower self-esteem from inside and outside. Everyone is unique but we all sometimes think to look like others. Some are lean, some are chubby, some are short, some are very tall. Everyone will not be the same from inside and outside. We should love ourselves for what we are. 

The author gives a lot of ideas to love oneself and to have more time with the body and soul to appreciate what we are doing with it. There are a lot of illustrations makes us understand how each should love themselves.

This is a small book with 21 pages under children genre but I think everyone should read it. This will give everyone a good feel because at some point of time in life we may low self-esteem thinking we are not good from inside and outside.

Loved Reading!

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The Girl in Room 105: Review

The Girl in Room 105 by Chetan Bhagat is a Crime Thriller. The girls who live in room 105 of Himadri hostel in IIT Delhi is Zara, she is an ex-girlfriend of Keshav who is a teacher at JEE Institute. Now she is the girlfriend of Raghu. It has been four years since there breakup but Keshav can't move over and disturbs her but with the help of his friend Saurabh he tries to recover. One day a message from Zara that makes him visit Zara. When he went into her room, she was dead with a red mark in her neck. Keshav informs the police, Rana is the policeman who investigates the case.  The watchman of Himadri hostel was jailed for the murder but Keshav's instinct says the watchman is not the murderer and says to Rana. 

Rana accused the watchman as the murderer because he needs promotion, but he said if Keshav finds the culprit surely he will help him. Apart from Raghu Zara had an affair with her school senior Faiz who was a married man working in Military, Keshav identifies many things about Zara finds some stuff from her locker which help him in the investigation. Raghu shows Keshav a mail where she berates Saxena. How she is suffering because of his torcher. First, he thinks Professor Saxena as the murdered because he said Zara to sleep with him so that he will help in completing her PhD. Keshav thinks Safdar, Zara's dad as the murderer as there is a chance of honour killing as she loved a Hindu man. Then they thought Sikander as the murderer who is a stepbrother who was close to her and was a part of the terrorist group. Zara often advises Sikander to get a job and come out of it. So maybe Sikander has killed her. Then he finds out her affair with Faiz and thinks he may have killed her. Keshav and Zara's dad plan to have a prayer to make the murderer come home and it was surprising for Safdar who he thought as the murderer was no the murderer. The climax had a twist as I thought.

The ending was predictable from the prologue continued in the mid of the story. I liked it. This book was so easy to read with lucid writing. This story gives me an idea of how Kashmiris suffer because of the frequent terrorist attack. Sometimes no connection to the world, The whole Indian State and UT are in peace except the Kashmir.]

I enjoyed this book. This is the first book I read from the author Chetan Bhagat. Wish to read his new release India Positive and other books by him. 

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The Palace of Illusions

The Palace of Illusions is the Mahabharatha from the perspective of Panchali written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. I loved this book. The Palace of Illusion is the Palace where Panchali was a mistress, the palace in Indraprastha which was a reason for her humiliation before the Sabha in Hastinapura.

Panchali, an uninvited member to King Drupad's family from the sacred fire. The ritual was carried out to get a son to fulfil his vengeance of killing Dronacharya. She was not a gift, she is the one who paved the way for fulfilling his vengeance. She never got a mother's love, even her father visited her rarely. She yearned for love. The only two persons who were close to her was Dhai Ma and her brother Dhristadyumna. Krishna visits her often and he was her close friend.

Krishna calls Panchaali as Krishnaa, the female version of him. She once came to know about a fortune teller and visited him. He was Vyasa. Vyasa said her she will marry 5 men and will be a cause of war, Kurushetra but she doesn't believe his prophecy.

She always wants to be loved but she doesn't get the love she sought from Arjun as he married all her brothers. she sometimes thinks if she had married Karna she may have got the love she yearned. She is the thread that always makes Pandavas united and stay together. Pandavas never argue with their mother and believe in her words so Kunti took it as an advantage and doesn't take back the words and made Panchali marry Pandavas.

The one thing that we should see is that Pandavas had a lot of wives but they all never stayed with them except Panchali and even she is the only one with them in all their journey in life. She was with them in tough and happiest moments in their life. She chose to go with them to exile and to mahaprastha.

I just wish to have a friend like Krishna who came to rescue her when her husbands and all men in her family were standing quiet, seeing Dushasana humiliating her. Loved the book from the perspective of a woman.

She was a strong woman. She always wanted to rebel against the boundaries society has prescribed for women. She even took part in political matters and helped Yudhustira. She created a sabha to help women in Hastinapura after the Kurukshetra.

I really loved her writing. I can't just stop reading, completed within days. The story we know, heard from the parents, watched as a movie, series, narration in temples, but reading from the perspective from Panchaali made me love this book.

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