Why Does a Man Rape?

The book really explains many things from mythology, history and how different species are and how they make treat females and how this patriarchal society wrote all rules that give more independence and freedom to men and a lot of restrictions to women. 

I liked the way the author explained how our Indian mythology is framed with a patriarchal mindset. The author has spoken of Hinduism and Islam and how the rules are, the author has interviewed a lot of victims and offenders and say explain some stories and try to find a reason why does a man rape.

The offenders had some childhood traumas or their parenting was not so good. Most of the offender's mother was not treated well by her husband, beating and abusing make them feel women as just an object to fulfill their pleasure and do whatever they can.

The author has spoken on child abuse, incest rape, marital rape, and stories of some victims. He also said about why Prostitution should be legal in India and how it can help in reducing the abuse against women and cons if it is legalized.

The rate of sexual abuse is increasing and there are more opportunities to find the victim as in most cases the offender selects a random person. Now online dating apps are also creating more problems as there are many fake ids and there are many users who share a lot of information which makes the people vulnerable and there are some stories about date rape where the victim went for a date and was raped and abused.

I really want to say it is always victim-blaming and there are many leaders who blamed the victim and said about proximity between men and women in society is less as the reason for rape. How they can say boys are boys and all. Really you can see the mindset of many people who supports the offender and blaming the victim for everything that happened when the victim needs support and care.

The book is written so well and dared to speak on many things. Kudos to the author. I do recommend this book to people around me.

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A Ride Home (Tampa FBI #2)

The story is so intriguing and I loved it as am a thriller fan and was anchored with the story till the end. The story from the beginning introducing the characters and the way it was leading to each victim and finding the culprit was so interesting. I wish the novel should be adapted as a movie.  There was a killer in Tampa who selects Petite ladies and mutilates their bodies, carves them and dresses up in 50's style, and places them in public places. The first murder site visited by FBI of couples in-home and Dr. Hutton saying there were more bodies found in this way. There are more and more victims from different timelines, years ago. I liked the character Emily who had some special powers which helped the FBI agents to solve the case. I wish Tammy and James will fall for each other. I liked the character Samantha who was so understanding and loved John. 

I thought Sara will be killed and the next victim will be Samantha, anyway, the ending was so good, and the last chapter's elaboration of Samantha and John's outing was way more than expected. But I liked it as in many stories they won't explain what happened in the life of other characters after the end of the main plot.

I will soon read the Dare to Dream. As I wish to know more about the characters and the previous case that was solved by Tammy, James, John, and Emily.

The narration and the way the characters were taken away were so good. I wish to read the next part of the book in the series too.

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Right Under Your Nose

The story is a superb thriller and a sure read for thriller fans as the case has a lot of mysteries to be solved. Each thing in the story will make you too think like a detective and find answers. Some parts were predictable and some were not predictable. 

Vijay, who was in a restaurant with his friend while the 1st murder of Anirudh happened and he was changed to a different wing because he couldn't save the person. Vijay has a lot of enemies in his field because of his sincerity and passion towards his work which gave him many opportunities.

Godbole and Rathore were appointed to solve the murder case but they couldn't and the next murder happened which became a sensation and CM, HM spoke with commissioner Patel and the case was moved to the right hands to find the murderer and Vijay got the opportunity to ask whatever he wants for solving the case and unlimited funding.

With a lot of obstacles in his path, he needs to close the case in a week and find the murderer. Dalvi and Padmini were part of his team. Each one has each characteristic that helped them move further without any distraction. Especially Dalvi was such a loyal and dedicated person.

To know who was the killer and how murders were planned and executed and how the murderer was captured you need to read this novel.

I loved the characters Vijay, Padmini, Dalvi, and Vasudha.

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FIR

The book is sure to read for people who are interested in knowing how FIR is filed and how the procedures start later and how to file an FIR and its types and process with a lot of information as we all live in the same country and never know some rules and laws and procedures unless there is a need. We all should need some basic knowledge of laws and constitutions.

The blurb of the book made me read this book as am interested in such topics. I really appreciate the author for writing such an informative book in a simple way.

We all hear about FIR and many don't know its abbreviation and why it is needed, to know more about FIR, you can read this book.

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Savage: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer

    The story is a superb one with a lot of information and how other people treat you like a fool for following the rules. We all know there are road accidents daily that affect the family of the person mentally, physically, and financially.

If people abide by rules, we can reduce such incidents happening. If we follow the rules and are right the one coming in opposite or behind doesn't follow the rules, there will be an accident for sure which make me fear driving my vehicle in the road and using the public transport.

The story was narrated well and the only negative is, translation for the author's native language conversation is missing in many places in the novel.

Other than that I loved this book. I really felt Pari was so rude on the train when she met Anjali and Twinkle and later because of Anjali and Twinkle, she found a goal to be achieved.

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This Book is Feminist

What feminism means to you?

The book covers not only feminism but there are also a lot covered like wellness, health, Identity. relationship, money. Feminism and its definition differ from person to person and generation to generation so don't rely on the definition in the dictionary. Some want equity, equality, the right to education, freedom. 

We all are mould based on what society and people around us teach us. But very few believe their instincts to do what they feel is right to them as well as the society.

I wish to see a world that is anti biased and anti-racist. There is a lot of influence on us because of the media we see where they show a girl who is lean and white with curves as a perfect being which really makes us feel bad about ourselves. We should have an exercise and routine to be healthy and don't want to be so thin to look beautiful. Be yourself and love yourself and follow your instincts.

The book is so inspiring and shares a lot of influential thoughts. Thanks to the author of such a feministic book with simple and lucid writing to inspire other through your words.

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Tiger in the Portico and Other Stories

 

The book has 5 short stories. The title is based on the first story. 

The first story is where two sisters are running for their lives, meanwhile, Tiger is running too and both of them end up in the attic. What happens next surprises the readers. This story is so different and I loved the ending. 

This gave me the impression to read the upcoming stories in the book as I expected the stories will be more interesting and have unexpected endings and that became true as the stories moved from one to the next. 

I loved the character Lili as she was very passionate about her work and loved the journalist Paddy and Mala's silence which made me crave for her words. Read this book to know the fictional stories these characters hold through Author's imagination 

Each story gives you different emotions fear, love, sadness, nostalgia as each story is so different and I really enjoyed reading them all. It made me travel with the characters in the story. The narration is so lucid and makes the reader read with the flow as it is written in a simple and interesting way.

My personal favorite story among these 5 is ' The tiger in the Portico', because of the two sisters and the character Abdul, his mom, Forest ranger Mukul and especially the tiger which made me fear for the life of girls and made everyone wonder what it will do next.

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The God Within

    The book is on spirituality and how a person gets free from emotions and forgiving our mistakes and guilt. The protagonist of the story is Mohini who lost her mom and was in deep pain got some valuable lessons from a sadhu and learned many things and she becomes a person who loved to be powerful and learned witchcraft. Later she accepts her mistake and leads a life teaching lessons in the ashram to find inner peace. Everyone should read it because we all make mistakes but we should make peace with our past and accept what we have done and lead a peaceful life.

    The narration was so good and we can find Mrinal who was such a great personality and Ashok who committed mistakes thinking he is God and should punish others. All the characters in the story teach us something.

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The Viceroy Villa

    The story is super interesting to read. It is perfect for teenagers as it is about the adventures of few teenagers and some mystery behind the viceroy villa. Avantika is a writer and Akash is a police officer, Sneha and Shruti are their kids. There are some stories on Viceroy Villa they are staying which Avantika uses as a plot for her story, whatever she writes happens in real. Shruti and Sneha read the story without knowing to mom as they want to be cautious and find solutions in their life based on the story.

    There are a lot of things that happen on the day of Sneha's birthday and she and her friends take an adventurous journey and went missing for many days. They pass through a tunnel and reached an island.

    The island people teach them to be part of nature and love it and lead a peaceful than playing games on the internet sitting in the same place. 

    Read the book to know the adventures of Sneha and her friends and mysteries on Viceroy Villa.

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The Fabric of Civilization

    This is such a superb read. How cotton was introduced in the world to different materials used in the textile industry and how the development and creating hybrids and different techniques used from history to geography and scientific aspects are covered about the humankind and how they evolved with this industry. I really loved the concept of math used for patterns explained and how the banking system was introduced, the innovations in textile, how a project that gave other results helped in the dying industry and how colonization and everything is interlinked. 

    This is a book on how human civilization and the clothing industry developed together and how the innovation made changes and improved the way of understanding and quality of the clothing.

    The narration was so good. The author has researched a lot and made a great effort to make this book on fabrics and civilizations. Each chapter was on each thing related to the clothing industry from fabrics,  dying, innovation...

    I got a lot of information about the clothing industry and many more things.

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