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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The Naga Trilogy: Rescue

The Naga trilogy: Rescue is a missionary kid Chronicle. The plot is set in Thailand. Chaz is the main character of the story. Chaz is a foreign teenage guy who has settled with his family long ago in Thailand as missionaries to preach Christianity in Thailand. Nick and Carolyn are his parents and he had 2 sisters, Nicole the elder one, and Sarah the younger ones in the family. This summer they had a team of missionary kids who are here to preach Christianity.

The missionary team lives in the guest house of Nick. Chaz had a crush on one of the missionary kid Ashely. One day the team and Chaz's family visit the night market. Chaz rescues a girl named Katya from a man who bought her from the mafia. Katya, a nine-year-old girl who escaped from her village as the villagers' tried to sacrifice her to Naga(Dragon). She was got into the hands of mafia and she was sold as a prostitute in the night market. Chaz's family takes her to the orphanage. She seeks the help of Chaz to help her friend who will be sacrificed instead of her and he conveys to his father. Chaz, his siblings, his father Nick, friend Derek and one of the kids from the team Jake plan for the journey.

The next book of the naga Trilogy is the journey. I will read the journey soon. This book was an easy read with 165 pages. Enjoyed reading!

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Chanakya Neeti

Chanakya Neeti is a book with almost 17 chapters with the Sanskrit Sloga and their Explanation in English.

Chanakya is the advisor of the first emperor of India, Chandra Gupta Maurya and his son Bindusara. He wished to have a self-dependent economy that is not entirely dependant on export. He said to Nandha king there are a lot of foreigners who try to invade and we should unite with all other kings of the provinces in Bharath to safeguard and protect from invaders. Nanda humiliated him saying he was ugly. Chanakya made a vow saying I will end your dynasty. He did with the help of Chandragupta Maurya. I am saying a lot about Chankaya than on this book. Let me summarize Chanakya Neeti.

In most of the section in this book, he says the importance of education. Education is very important and it helps to earn wealth. He says how a king should rule, people are the important asset of the king and he should treat everyone equal. Wealth is also important because no one will hear our words unless we are wealthier. People believe the words said by a wealthier person and follow what they say so one should gain knowledge on how to acquire wealth. He says to offer charity, donate to those who suffer not to those who have.

This book gives you the idea to live an ideal life.

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Review on 51 Lesser Known Tales From the Mahabharata

51 Lesser Known Tales From the Mahabharata by Sharath Komarraju have a lot of stories that I never heard and few are known. The tales are not only from Mahabharata, but it also has stories from Ramayana and other Puranas t.

How many of you know that Satyavati, wife of Shanthanu was a princess born to king  Uparichara who has her to the fisherman. There is tory how Jarasantha was born. Barbarika, son of Gadolkacha may have ended the war in a minute if he has participated in it. The story of blinding of Shukracharya related to Bali's story. There are 7 Chiranjeevi's in this world. There are stories about Yaksha, Kinnara, Kimpurushas and Gandharva. Everyone knows Amba was reborn as Shikandi but here the story is narrated as Shikandi is daughter to Amba and Drupad.

This was really interesting. My favourite genre is mythology. A lot of unknown stories, some from a different perspective. In olden days there were no writing forms and the stories and knowledge were transferred as slogans so we get different sort of additional facts with a different perspective. There are lot of interesting stories to known from this. I really suggest you guys to read this book.