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(No Spoiler) "Love seemed elusive to us, but we had something else. We had friendship, which in many ways is even more beautiful than love." - Chetan   Bhagat, One Arranged Murder (Picture Credit- chetanbhagat.com ) Are you looking for an engaging book review of Chetan Bhagat's new book One Arranged Murder . Don't worry! You are at the right place. One Arranged Marriage Murder is a mystery thriller from India’s highest-selling author Chetan Bhagat . This is Chetan's ninth novel and twelfth book overall. His last release was The Girl in Room 105 , which was published in 2018 and One Arranged Murder is a sequel of that previous one. This is a story about love and murder. Actually, it is a story about one arranged marriage that eventually becomes one arranged murder. One Arranged Murder begins where Bhagat's previous novel, The Girl in Room 105 , ends. Keshav Rajpurohit and Sourabh Maheshwari are best friends, colleagues, flat mates, and business partners...

Are you worried about your future? Are you puzzled with your life? Don't worry! Because James Allen says- "Man is made or unmade by himself." You yourself have every single power to change your life. To know the secrets, read the masterpiece, As a Man Thinketh. (Picture Credit- Maple Classics) As a Man Thinketh is a pioneering self-help book by James Allen, a philosophical writer of British nationality known for his inspirational books and poetry. This is Allen's third book and was first published in 1903. The book is divided into seven small chapters. He described the book as "A book that will help you to help yourself", "A pocket companion for thoughtful people", and "A book on the power and right application of thought." The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," forms the basis of the title of this book. Allen says a man is literally what he thinks, his character, his personality is made out of his thoughts. H...

“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful.” -  Samuel Beckett : Waiting for Godot (34) Waiting for Godot,  a paragon of existentialism, is crafted by the brilliant mind of Samuel Beckett. Beckett, a modernist Irish writer, often associated with the ‘Theatre of the Absurd.' He was highly influenced by the French philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Waiting for Godot is a highly celebrated existential play. Existential philosophy says that we human beings simply exist in a world that does not have any overarching moral order or meaning. We are not essentially good or bad, we are what we make of ourselves, what we think of ourselves and we are what we choose to believe. Questions such as life, death, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in that existence are among them. The theories of existentialism assert that conscious reality is very complex and without an "objective" or universally known value. We see, that, in  Waiting for Godot...

A View of Kurseong Town Kurseong, the land of white orchid, a hill station in the Darjeeling district in the Indian State of West Bengal. Kurseong is located at an altitude of 4864 ft and has a pleasant climate throughout the year. The city is 34 kilometres from Siliguri and is connected by roads and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR).  The nearest major railway station is New Jalpaiguri (NJP), which is about 45 kilometres and the nearest airport is at Bagdogra, which is about 40 kilometres from the town. The economy is based primarily on tourism and education. Before telling anything more about Kurseong, I would like to talk about how and from where my journey started. My journey started right from the R.K. Hostel, University of North Bengal. This time I'm gonna travel with two of my friends - Lohit and Ashraf. We three study at the University of North Bengal and stay in university hostel. Our university is located at Shiv Mandir, Siliguri, and Kurseong is standing in 20 km n...

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”  - Ernest Hemingway. Reading is very important because it develops our thoughts, gives us endless knowledge and lessons while keeping our minds active. Books can hold and keep all kinds of information, stories, thoughts and feelings unlike anything else in this world. The importance of a book to help us learn and understand things is irreplaceable. Technology has developed over the time, and reading books can be more convenient and easier nowadays. We can read books on our laptop, mobile, tablets and Kindle, etc. Although I personally prefer physical books, but, you know e-books have the definite advantage of being easy to bring with you wherever you go. Also one thing we always don't like is the price tag that goes along with the book. Here comes the immense importance of e-books and fortunately there are plethora of websites which provide e-books for free. Below are some amazing websites for downloading free e-books where you can acquire a...

Family sagas are key ways for communities to stake a claim of their history and culture. Multi-generational stories teach us that our lives are not simply our own but are also woven into the fabric of space, time, and family. In the following two multi-generational novels, the patriarchs, and the children they all face new challenges but come to realize that these challenges have, in varied forms, echoed through the decades. Here, I’m going to compare the two celebrated multi-generational novels - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Since, both the novels are based on the theme of multi-generation, a comparable study can be made. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Jhumpa Lahiri) One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magnum opus and is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Renowned Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called it: "...

William Shakespeare, often nicknamed ‘The Bard”, is beyond any comparison, the most towering name in English Literature. The Tempest, a masterpiece of Shakespeare, explores the consequences of European settlement in the new world. It is generally considered Shakespeare's final play as well as the last of his romance plays.  William Shakespeare (Picture Credit- time.com) Most of the readers of The Tempest look upon Caliban, that "freckled hag-born whelp," as a monster creature, half-man and half-devil, a repulsive creature of brute understanding, stunted faculties, and gross, malignant, moral nature. But there is much to be said in favour of this spawn of Sycorax and the devil. What faults the moon-calf has lie in his physical grossness and in his attempt on the virtue of Miranda; yet the first of these is characteristic of Falstaff, the second is a situation familiar in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, and neither is uncommon enough to elicit especial censure. Caliban is a...

Jonathan Swift’s magnum opus Gulliver’s Travels is the story of the astonishing voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, who is basically the narrator and protagonist of the tale. A parody of the popular travel narrative, Gulliver’s Travels combines adventure with savage satire, mocking English customs and the politics of the day. The phenomenal and continuing popularity of Gulliver's Travels raises the question that this essay will attempt to answer. Harold Bloom remarks on Gulliver’s Travels: "If the Tale-teller is a Swiftian parody of one side of Swift, the anti-Cartesian, anti-Hobbesian, then Gulliver is a Swiftian parody of the great ironist’s own misanthropy." (2) Swift’s A Tale of a Tub has much to do with our sense of its excess, with its force being so exuberantly beyond its form. Gulliver’s Travels, the later and lesser work, has survived for the common reader, and whereas Swift’s early masterpiece has not.  Gulliver's Travels is the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a married s...