Launch of rdhsir.com

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Hi readers, how are you?? I have come with indeed a good news... yes! I have purchased an own domain rdhsir.com from GoDaddy and this free blog's URL rdhsir.mwb.im is being changed to rdhsir.com!!! I know this is 1st April - April Fool Day, but I am not making you fool in this blog post for sure. You can trust me!!!

This blog was launched on 24th September 2012. And from the very beginning, I have been considering this blog as my official website although I know the difference between a blog and a website. Till today, I was using MyWapBlog's subdomain mwb.im with my blog (rdhsir.mwb.im). But after receiving a tremendous response from you 4.15 lakh plus visitors around the world who keeps visiting my blog, I thought to own a domain. Actually having an own domain and an official website instead of a blog with subdomain was one of my dream which is coming to be true today.

While starting this blog I had never imagined to be a professional book reviewer or this blog will be identified for my book reviews; but one thing I can say for sure, that certainly I did not start this blog for fun anyway... If you would check my old posts, you will find so many articles (blog posts) in various categories. But now this blog is getting an identity for book reviews. I would have been parked a domain name for this blog so early, but I never tried to own and one due to lack of knowledge/information. My friends asked me several times to integrate Google AdSense or other similar platform to monetize this blog for advertisements and for earning purpose. This is not the case that I don't want to earn from my blog but I didn't try to earn through my blog though I knew about AdSense. My first 2 book reviews also were unpaid, but when I received positive response to my review of Hidden Husband from the authors, reviewers, and readers, I thought to be a professional book reviewer (oh! not a book reviewer but a book analyzer) and I started charging a reasonable fees for my reviews.. I neither provide book reviews only for money nor I compromise with my honesty in my reviews just because I get paid for the work. I charge my fees for my time, hard work and efforts, I charge for my honest analysis of the book. Though I don't earn so much from the reviews but I am satisfied in what I get in return for my efforts. At least now I can pay my internet WiFi charges Rs 600 per month from my own earnings from my PC even being an unemployed person. I delayed parking a domain due to lack of information and some misunderstandings. I didn't want to invest even a single rupee on my blog. Yes! But then I read some motivating blog posts by a professional blogger who earn tremendous income with just AdSense and other monetizing platforms from his blog and he quit his job, I was wondered!! I read a sentence there- "People know the ways to earn through a blog, they read as well but they do not implement such platforms on their blog." That sentence is hundred percent correct about me as I knew about AdSense and parking a domain and earning through a blog, I was enjoying to read but I never tried to implement it. That day I decided to integrate AdSense on my blog.

I had lots of misunderstandings, doubts, questions and lack of knowledge to buy a domain, hosting, configuration, parking, hosting fees, renewal fees and so much. But I consulted with my friends to clear my doubts. I will mention some names later in this blog post to acknowledge all of them for their help. First of all, I was confused about the domain name (Personal or Professional) for this site. My blog is being identified for the book reviews so my friends and I myself wished for the professional domain which would represent my work as a brand, and secondly; I did not start this blog for just book reviews, in fact book reviews were not in my mind while starting this blog, I have been writing on so many topics on this blog and I can't stop myself from writing on those topics. So if I would have purchased a professional domain for this blog, the blog would have had limitations about the content related to that domain only. I didn't have any problem with that too, but in that case I would have to start a new blog for my other writing works, and I can't afford to spend that much time on a new blog, neither I could have afforded to purchase another domain nor I could have gained such consistent traffic. So I decided to purchase a personal domain 'rdhsir' as it was in my old URL having subdomain mwb.im!

Now, after purchasing my personal domain I can call this blog as MY official website as I like myself to call RDH which has the letters of my name Rajesh D. Hajare. People ask me why I call myself as Sir... No, I don't like to call myself as Sir, but I like to call myself just RDH. But there is already a global brand available with the name RDH which means Registered Dental Hygienist and I do not want to violate any copyrights and other legal issues like registered trademarks so I add Sir next to my desired name RDH. And yes, let me know you one thing that I am officially eligible to add 'Sir' next to my name because I am a Diploma holder in Teachers Education (DTEd). Okay, So now after deciding a domain name for my blog I was confused with a suitable extension for my domain .com and .in but I chose .com as it seems like a global extension. Then I decided to select one more name as a brand which will represent my work of detail analysis and then one nice name came in my mind BookLysis as this word has one and a half keywords a 'Book' and 'Lysis' from 'analysis' which suits to my style of detailed review. Although I have mentioned myself as a Book Reviewer I think if I am a book reviewer who analyze book in detail then who are those who provides short reviews or feedback on the books? And if they are Book Reviewers then how is it possible that I will also put myself in the same category? Now you will say, I am a Book Critic; but no, for the respect of verrry popular and intelligent book critics, I can't call myself a book critic as I am neither such knowledgeable for being called a critic nor I do only criticize book. But yes, I always provide detail analysis so I would like to call myself a Book Analyser instead of a Book Critic or a Book Reviewer. So I chose the name 'BookLysis' as an identity for my book reviews.

OK! I would like to mention my friends who motivated and helped me by resolving my doubts, confusions and queries with their friendly help and technical support as well. First of all I would like to mention that blogger's name Harsh Agrawal whose blog 'ShoutMeLoud' motivated me to add AdSense on my blog. I would thank my virtual teenager friend and probably my to be team-mate Master Harshit Pandey for his ideas, then I would thank my friend and the founder of Hall Of Poets (HOP) ezine Dr. Prerna Singla for her assistance to add AdSence though I got unable to add that due to lack of domain (but now after having an own domain I hope I will be able). Next, I would like to thank multiple times to my friend and a developer of my RDH Sir's Android App Aniruddha Pathak for his assistance to integrate free monetizing platform UC-Union to my blog and for assisting me to configure my domain with DNS Management. Afterward I would thank GoDaddy and their customer care representatives Mr. Ravi (for help regarding domains), Miss Salma Sultan (for assisting me while purchasing a domain) and Mr. Shabbir for assistance to configure a domain, and last but the most, I would like to thank Mr. Arvind Gupta and Technical Support team of MyWapBlog.com for all the assistance and guidance they are giving daily to me via mail in this week; without technical support of mywapblog.com I could have not decide, purchase, configure and park my domain.

So, I am sharing here new URL of my website www.rdhsir.com I am looking forward to update this website, navigations, categories, and blogrolls. I am also looking forward to introduce new logos/favicons and banners of this blog and BookLysis!!!

Till then enjoy..!!

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3.8 Stars to Heart of Bullets by Nikhil Kushwaha

132nd Blog post

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13th Book Review

FIRST BLOGPOST FROM OUR NEW HOME

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First of all welcome back! I am also back with one more book review. And this review is quite special for me because I am writing this first blog post from our new home!! Okay… I finished reading a fantastic book Heart Of Bullets by Nikhil Kushwaha. This review was expected to be published in the last week of Feb but I apologize to the author for not publishing this review within time due to my busy schedule. Anyway, I don't want to bore my readers with a long introduction so let me come to the book review now…

BOOK COVER:

(Book cover of Heart of Bullets | © Amazon)

On the front cover, one can see a soldier with his sweetheart. Rifle in a standing move keeps distance between a soldier and his sweetheart. A helicopter of the army is in the background. Three fighter planes are flying in the sky in three different directions (\|/). Saffron, White and Green color of background makes tricolor. Petal Publishers' logo is printed below the rifle in the middle so it looks like a bullet. In short, Cover of Heart Of Bullets is filled with patriotism and love. So, I would give full marks to Jimmyeric Films and Media for the cover designing. Title Heart Of Bullets is quite impressive which commemorates me the title To The Last Bullet which I read and reviewed few years ago.

SETTING: There are 26 chapters along with prologue and epilogue in 296 pages. The author narrates the story in present tense as the first person.

THEMES: Heart of Bullets covers various themes like pride, patriotism, friendship, love, betrayal, philosophy, motivation, bravery, intelligence, and thriller, etc.

LOCATIONS: The story of the novel runs through so many locations like Uri, Kashmir (a place near LOC), Ranchi, Gir (Gujarat), Kargil, Banaras, Calcutta and Pakistan (Pak).

WRITING STYLE: Author elegantly uses literary terms and figurative language. This is a novel, however, author Nikhil Kushwaha mentions his self-written poems and one-liners which touch to the heart. The author wisely arranges twists and turns and keeps suspense until the end. One-liners by Nikhil Kushwaha make his writing style unique and interesting.

CHARACTERS: There are so many major and minor characters in the novel. But I would like to introduce few of them.

1. Arpan: Author portrays Arpan as a narrator of the story who works as a soldier in an Indian Army. Arpan is the protagonist in the novel.
2. Sameer Das (Sam): Sameer is the second protagonist in the novel. Author portrays Sameer as a friend of Arpan and a senior in the army. Heart of Bullets is the story of Sameer narrated by his friend Arpan.
3. Shradha: Author portrays Shradha as a classmate of Arpan. She loves Sameer and she works as a social activist.
4. Soni: Mutual friend of Arpan and Sam in school and junior college.
5. Dr. Kumar: Dr. Kumar is the listener of this story of Sam from the narrator Arpan.

PLOT: The Heart of Bullet starts with a beautiful, touching, sensitive and patriotic poem ‘The Story Is Old' in the prologue of the novel.

First chapter ‘Terrorists hiding' is about the humble aspects and different roles in soldier's life apart from his service. When I read about the successful mission by Arpan, I felt like a soldier for some moment. In this chapter, Arpan tells the facts about the army and their service. Arpan tells soldier's respect towards the nation and army and pride about his duty. The first chapter is filled with fun, sarcasm, patriotism and a thrill. Author Nikhil Kushwaha gives the glance of woman's life. Arpan tells the truth of soldier's leaves in an emergency. Author gracefully scribbles the tough life of martyr's family after a sacrifice of a soldier. It seems that author Nikhil has researched or have knowledge about missiles, rockets, advance 7th generation rocket science technology and Combined Defence Service (CDS). He also gives the brief information about heart transplantation. Fighting scene in the fourth chapter ‘Attack at MH' seems like a war. Indian soldier's fight till the last bullet thrills us. Author writes about the difference between soldiers and terrorists. ‘Towards a new home' comes with an unexpected thrilling scene. Some quotes and one-liners touch to my heart and relates to my own life.

Chapter six commemorates me my college days. When Sameer gets caught while stealing question papers, I remind my experience when I had raise a duster on my science teacher in SSC (Wo matter alag hai, yaha nahi padhne milega!!). Arpan elegantly defines the difference between development and growth. It is noteworthy that author make us worried about current generation's priorities in life. Story narrated by Sameer Das touches to the heart in the twelfth chapter. Poems and lullabies are also nice. The thirteenth chapter touches me. I wish the one too could thief my personal diary/diaries and find her name on almost every single page as Sameer reads secrets of Shradha in her diary.

Nineteenth chapter is about true friendship. Sameer's apologetic answer to Arpan touches to the heart. He quotes the importance of apology and forgiveness in friendship "After all, friendship means forgiveness. It means forgetting the thing that ruins it. A small gesture of apology sometimes saves a bond whose value is more than millions." Bittersweet introduction of love at first sight in the fifth chapter ‘The first time I saw' is really fantastic. Sameer's conversation with Shradha and Soni are just pleasant. Author comments on sacrifice in love and relationship "Sometimes, one needs to sacrifice the things that matters the most, for them who matters the most, and that's the truest form of love that exists. It's just stupid to breathe when there is no reason to live. When you love someone for true, you will do anything to make them happy, even if that happiness doesn't include you." "It's better to be hated for what you are rather than being loved for what you aren't. Relationships aren't built on bases of lies."

He beautifully portrays the romantic scenes. Author indirectly scribbles short description about intimacy in beautiful way in chapter ‘Once in a monsoon'.

Author comments on Indian Railway. In the second chapter ‘Sudden call', he comments on people's patriotism in an ironical and satiric manner- "People talk about politics, war and condition of country for hours, but very few do something to change it, to make it better. Everyone wants a change but no one wants to change. Being patriotic is one other thing and doing something for a county is another." He comments on inactivity of peoples "The world suffers, not because of the dirty works of bad people, but of the ignorance of good people." The author raises some other social issues. He criticizes private tuitions. He also comments on the education system in India where more importance is being given to grades and marks than knowledge. But at the same times, he remarks some positive comments about teacher's profession. Author comments on gender equality in his quote "No matter how much we change, it's the woman who has to carry a baby in womb, and the man who has to light the fire." He defines WOMEN as the World Of MEN. He comments on parents' dignity and social values more importance over children's happiness. Arpan's comments on fate commemorate me the conversation between Karna and the protagonist Vasu in novel Karna's Alter Ego where Karna explains the philosophy of fate to Vasu in detail. Author messages to the people (like me heheheJ) who sleeps late.

Unexpected but guessable suspense gets revealing in chapter 25. Heart of Bullets ends with the totally unexpected climax which is truly sensitive. I have told you so much about the story and now don't expect me to reveal the climax also, to know whether it is happy or tragic, you have to read the book.

Oneliners from the book:

1. "Money is like a fire. If used correctly, it can make food but if in wrong hands, it may burn the house."
2. "There is nothing more painful than living a lonely life without being a culprit for it."
3. "Love doesn't always mean togetherness, it also means sacrificing something for the one you love."
4. "Perhaps, true happiness lies in happiness of the one we love, that's the truest form of love people talk about all the time."

 DRAWBACKS:

1. Typing and Grammatical Errors: There are so many typing errors like Apran (Arpan) on page 45 and 48, wired (weird) on page 70, punchure (puncture) on page 116, feeing (feeling) on page 225, taking (talking) on page 240, laud (loud) on page 253 and so many… I don't deserve to find grammatical errors as my own English is not too good but there are so many grammatical errors in the novel Heart of Bullets.
2. I felt narration confusing a bit because of a combination of present and past tense. In my opinion, it would be better if the story would have been told by Arpan in a past tense.
3. Some words have fainted.
4. Reference to Facebook: Reference to Facebook use by Shradha at an age of 22 (in 2002) is irrelevant because the social networking website facebook was launched 2 years later than 2002 on 4th Feb 2004.
5. The story is stretched: The story of Heart of Bullets is quite stretched but the last fight of Arpan in the climax is in brief.

REVIEWER'S FEEDBACK:

(©RDH Sir | Facebook)

Heart Of Bullets is the fantastic novel by Nikhil Kushwaha. I liked the way author narrates the story, quotations, and one-liners touch to readers' heart and relates to own life. Heart of Bullets make you think on social issues and thrill you, the story brings tears in eyes with Goosebumps!! I have mucked almost every page of the book as my favourite. I would have liked more if the story would have been narrated within 250 pages. The weakness of the book is so many typing errors and grammatical mistakes of the book but I am sure that Author Nikhil Kushwaha and publisher will take care of this in next editions of the book. I would recommend this book to my readers because the story, theme, poems, quotes, and one-liners are much more apart from the mistakes.

MY RATING: The story of Heart of Bullets deserves at least 4 stars but I am cutting 0.2 stars for grammatical and typing errors. So I would give 3.8 out of 5 Stars to Heart of Bullets by Nikhil Kushwaha.

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Watch ©HEART OF BULLETS – Book Trailer on Youtube

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Blurb: ‘The only way to get close to those glittering stars in heaven is, to look at a soldier with stars on his shoulders'

Every time, they're around, the thing that we see is the bravery awards, medals, the pride, but what we can't see is their heart that lies inside the iron chest, some untold stories, sacrifices, and the hardship they've been through. Every soldier has a story that is unique and extra ordinary.

A tale of brotherhood & heroism, a tale of love & betrayal, ‘Heart of Bullets', is about two best friends, Arpan & Sam, and the untold story of their friendship, untold story of their love, Shradha, but what happens when Sam gets hit by the enemy – across the border?

What will Arpan do to save his friend? Will love prevail over friendship of lifetime?

There is a decision to be made, is the life without love, and friends, better than dying to save the one we love the most?

About Nikhil Kushwaha:

(Author Nikhil Kushwaha | ©facebook )

Founder of Perx Studio, a complete photography solution, and a professional photographer himself, Nikhil Kushwaha has already touched hearts of many through his previous works, ‘Six Teen Mistakes' published in 2014 and ‘The Waning Moon' published in 2015.

 

Born and raised in beautiful city Ranchi, he graduated in 2013 as an Electrical & Electronics Engineer from NIST, Odisha and after working for some time, he left his job to change his dreams into reality.

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Heart Of Bullets' heart

Title: HEART OF BULLETS

Author: NIKHIL KUSHWAHA

Publishers: PETALS PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS

Copyright © NIKHIL KUSHWAHA

First Edition: December 2015

ISBN (13): 978-93-85440-12-0

ISBN (10): 93-85440-12-8

Language: English

Printing: Paperback (Printed in India)

Designs & Branding: JIMMYERIC FILMS & MEDIA (Facebook)

Genre: Fiction

Pages: 296 (Excluding cover)

MRP: Rs. 195

Reviewer: RAJESH D. HAJARE (RDH)

Rating: 3.8/5

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Nikhil Kushwaha's Books Available online…

Heart of Bullets (3.5/5)| Six Teen Mistakes (4.8/5) | The Waning Moon (4.9/5)

 

Six Teen Mistakes (4.8/5) | The Waning Moon (4.9/5)

 

Heart of Bullets | Six Teen Mistakes (4.7/5) | The Waning Moon (3/5)

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Disclaimer:

1. This is my personal opinion about Heart of Bullets and your views may be vary.
2. Reviewer has used quotes and one-liners in this review with the permission of the author.
3. Reviewer of this book works as the Gondia district president at Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Parishad

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Twists and Turns (#BookReview of ‘Without You', Author- Preethi Venugopala)

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I am not praising myself but I know that author Preethi Venugopala ma’am is damn excited to read my review of her book ‘Without You'. Don't ask why but I am sure that she would be surprised after reading this detailed review. I don't introduce any book in my review like this but I am doing this time with a purpose, I guess she is smiling while reading this introduction of Without You's book review. Thank God, I don't live in her city J!! Ok jokes a part!! Hehe!!  I am not a master in making jokes like the character of Tom in Without You but I like to laugh on my own PJs.. hehe!! Now let me come to the-

Detail analysis of Without You by Preethi Venugopala.

(©Cover of  Without You | Source: blogspost.com)

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About Author:

(©Preethi Venugopala | Source: facebook.com)

Preethi Venugopala is a Civil Engineer by education and an avid blogger, artist by passion. After working in many prestigious civil engineering projects for more than a decade, she quit her job to become a full-time mother. Meanwhile, she took a Masters Degree in English literature to complete her dream of studying English literature. She tried her hand successfully at crafts, crocheting, portraiture and painting before venturing into writing.

She has been published in two anthologies, ‘The Second Life' and‘Blank Space'. Another anthology ‘A Little Chorus of Love' is to be published soon. She is a regular contributor to many online magazines and websites.

She strongly believes that storytellers are healers in the present world as they can change the outlook of people through the stories they tell. She would love to hear from her readers.

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Book Cover: 

(©Front Cover of  Without You | Source: blogspost.com)

There is a portrait of a girl printed on the front cover. Pink colour of portrait suits to the genre of romance and love as Pink is being considered as the colour of love and care. Background in sky blue, yellow, and indigo colour is like cherry on the cake. Book title Without you is printed in italic fonts with black and red colours so font of the title itself catches an attraction. Publisher Write India's logo also perfectly fits in a right corner above. Back cover is also catchy. The blurb of the book is printed on a pink balloon in a heart shape. Love, betrayal, friendship and miracle are highlighted in Red colour so these words give readers an idea about the theme of the book. Buildings can be noticed in a background on the back cover. When I asked my younger brother Vivek to choose his favourite book from the favourite cover, he chose Without You as his favourite from the front cover. So, overall Abinash Panda has designed a beautiful cover.

Setting: The story of Without You is narrated in 30 chapters and epilogue in 198 pages.

Theme: The plot of  Without You is based upon so many themes like romance, love, betrayal, friendship, miracles, humour, devotion and art.

Language & Writing Style: First twelve chapters (except fifth one) and epilogue is written in a style of diary writing. Author Preethi Venugopala narrates the story through Ananya as a first person. She uses hyphen sign between words to indicate inner feelings and emotions. Preethi's knowledge of English literature can be sensed from her writing style. She uses grammar fantastically. Literary language is a bit complicated but it's not much difficult so the language of the book is entertaining. Influence of Southern background appears in Preethi's writing style in words like Prasadam (for Prasad). It seems that authoress has researched about Arabian language when she introduces the meaning of an Arabian phrase ‘Maafi Mushkil Habibi'- means ‘'No problem, sweetheart.'

Locations: The story in Without You runs around India and UAE. The half story is based on mainly Sreepuram and Bangalore (Bengaluru) in Karnataka, and Kerala. Other half story runs around Al Nahda in Sharjah, Terminal 3 Airport in Dubai, Canadian specialist Hospital, Al Garhoud, Dubai and BurjKhalifa in UAE. The author beautifully describes a city ‘Dubai'.

Characters: Authoress Preethi Venugopala beautifully describes each character's unique accent of pronunciation.

1. Ananya Shankar (Anu): Authoress portrays Ananya's character as a central character in the story. She is a main protagonist in the story.
2. Dr. Arjun Rajashekhar: Authoress portrays Arjun's character as a second protagonist in the story. He is a best friend of Vishal.
3. Arundhati Mukundan (Ammamma): Ananya's grandmother.
4. Sukanya: Ananya's mother
5. Colonel R. S. Nair: Formerly colonel at BSF.
6. Vishal: Ananya's cousin and a good friend.
7. Uma: Vishal's mother and Ananya's aunty.
8. Kishore: Ananya's eldest cousin living in Dubai.
9. Aditya: Authoress portrays her character as a toddler boy who is the 3 years old son of Kishore and his wife Shreya. He represents kids of his age.
10. Lily Alonzo Reyes: Ananya colleague in Dubai.
11. Mr. Thomas Smith (Tom): Lily and Ananya's colleague and a good friend. I am sure that he will be remembered in readers heart for his jokes! Oops, PJs.
12. Sophia Fernandeze: Ananya's companion in Dubai. Her mastery on zodiac signs is enough to know authoress' knowledge, study and research.
13. Mr. Ahmed: A Senior Construction manager in Ananya's office.
14. Mr. Ravi Bhatia: The HR manager in Al Bayed Group, Dubai.
15. Rajashekhar: Authoress portrays Rajashekhar as Arjun's dad.
16. Shakuntala Devi: Arjun's mother.
17. Maria: Arjun's housekeeper and cook in Dubai.
18. Madhavan: Father of Rajashekhar
19. Anamika (Ammu): 9 years old chatterbox in Ananya's vacation gang
20. Khushi Sharma and Poornima: Ananya's best friends
21. Arijit Singh: Don't misunderstand him with the real one, Arijit Singh is the student of S8 Civil in the story.

Plot: Story of Ananya starts with a humour but this kind of humour can be understood by only those having knowledge of literature; this humour is scribbled in a writing style of the great Marathi author Late Mr. P. L. Deshpande who is also known as ‘Pu. La.'. No! I am not comparing authoress Preethi with him, but if I do so, this will be the biggest compliment than even the Nobel Prize for literature. Yes!

My mouth was watering while reading about the delicious dishes in Karnataka. Chapter five is based on love and I count it as my favourite one.  I would like to mention Ananya's grandma's quote "Never marry someone whom you can't love and respect. Such marriages are the worst form of torture, especially in our country, where divorces are still a taboo. I have seen many girls suffer in such hell holes."Sixth chapter touches to my heart. Ananya describes the feeling of love in words "It is a nice feeling to fall in love, nicer if the person loved you equally. But, the nicest thing is when you know that you have made the right choice and you have the blessings of your loved ones as well." Entry of villains happens between Anu and Arjun's love story in chapter ten. The scene where Vishal asks Anu to forget her love relates to my own life. Arjun and Ananya's reactions seem realistic. Authoress gives the realistic picture of society when Anu slashes her vein of the left wrist after a breakup with Arjun. Authoress gives a message to coward couples who attempt suicide after rejection in love in an Anu's quote "I know how hard it is, to forget our first love. Been there, done that. But it doesn't mean you have any right to throw away your life. You have to show them that you care nothing about what happened and carry on strongly." Arijit Singh's dedication to Khushi reminds me my own dedicated song to someone in my college. 13th Aug. 2010- It's a memorable date in my life, so even a date of the scene touches to my heart. I don't know whether I should or should not! But yes! I didn't know writing diary is prescribed by psychologists to express feelings; but being a diarist for more than consecutive 6 years, I agree that diary writing is an effective way to express feelings in someone's memory. The authoress gives us examples of some interview questions. Did you ever travel in an aeroplane? If you didn't, you must read fourteenth chapter of ‘Without You'. This chapter will give you a live and realistic experience of travelling on a plane. Ananya wonderfully describes Kishore and Shreya's 3 years old son Aditya's behavior and odd reactions on his face after looking at new guests. The authoress comments on the busy professional life of working women like Ananya who works as a civil engineer in Al Bayed Group, Dubai. I think every civil engineer must go through chapter seventeen of Without You. I was always amazing to think about south Indian surnames as I didn't know that they add their second name next to the first name and hide their surname, maybe I would still unaware of the fact if I wouldn't have read Without You! So this book gives you knowledge.

The authoress comments on Hindu devotees' bath into the sacred water of river near temples. She comments in a humorous way on fat people with a big belly. She gives glimpses of extra-marital affairs in society. When authoress tries to connect Indians and Pakistanis in one bond I commemorate the same attempt of author Amisha Sethi in her novel It Doesn't Hurt To Be Nice. Though there is no relation between both book, I think this kind of attempt shall be done from the literature; so I appreciate authoress’ efforts. Ananya sarcastically comments on the difference between an Engineering course and practical work on the field/ office. Authoress comments on realistic issues like love marriages, arrange marriages and Breakups. She comments on society's contrasting opinion about virginity of women and men.

Chapter twenty-two comes with so many twists and turns in the story. Two quotes from the chapter touches to my heart and those are "If a man cries over a girl, then he loved her truly and no one else could make her happier than him." Ananya comments on peoples' interference in other persons' life'- "It is ridiculous how people often meddled in the life of others, played with their emotions, took decisions on their behalf, and gave them the utmost pain possible. When they had tangled the threads of relationships into a complex knot, they often cried off and heaped the blame on fate." Bittersweet interaction with twists and turns between Arjun and his beloved Anu in chapter twenty-three seems like an instance of true love. There is a glance of a very short intimacy scene which is described in a nice manner so it doesn't feel vulgar. Chapter twenty-seven brings a big twist about Arjun's dad but don't expect me to reveal the twist. A philosophy of authoress' imaginary life after death is just amazing in Ananya's conversation with harmless soul. Story comes to the climax in chapter 30 and epilogue, and now please do not expect me to reveal climax and epilogue also!! (Waise bhi lagbhag puri story to batadi hai ab kam se kam climax to secret rehne do!!!) Okay! So, does Ananya marry to Arjun? What happens in their love story? If you want answers to these questions you have to grab your own copy and read the novel ‘Without You'.

Quotes: Each chapter of the novel Without You begins with a quote by a great person. I would like to mention few of them 30 quotes among all 30 chapters:

1. "The earth has music for those who listen." – George Santayana
2. "I know what I have given; I do not know what you have received." – Antonia Porchia
3. "Speak low, if you speak love." – William Shakespeare
4. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus oneday, so I never have to live without you." – A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
5. "I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry." – Cat Stevens
6. "The beginning is the most important part of the work." – Plato
7. "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance…" – Franklin P. Jones
8. "We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." – Anais Nin
9. "Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return." –Peace Pilgrim
10. "Three things cannot be hidden for long; the sun, the moon, and the truth." – Buddha
11. "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." – William Shakespeare
12. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

Drawbacks: There are not major drawbacks in the novel, however, I found 2 minor print mistakes in it.

Reviewer's Notes:

(©Rajesh D. Hajare (RDH))

“Without You by Preethi Venugopala is the perfect tale of friendship, love, betrayal, breakup, miracles, romance and humour; which entertain readers with so many interesting twists. This novel not only makes readers aware about social issues but motivates them with positive messages.”

I would recommend Without You to lovers, believers in astrology/zodiac (especially Cancerians and Scorpions), and engineers (especially civil engineers). If you belong to any one of the above categories, then you shouldn't miss the twists and turns in this novel.

I would rate 4.25 out of 5 Stars to Without You by Preethi Venugopala.

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Without You in a glance:

Title: Without You

Author: Preethi Venugopala

Published by: WRITE INDIA PUBLISHERS

Copyright: ©Preethi Venugopala 2015

First Edition: May 2015

Typeset by Atul Purohit 11.5 pts Garamond

Branding & Designs: ABINASH PANDA

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Genre: FICTION / ROMANCE

ISBN 978-93-84180-19-5

Pages: 212 (including cover)

MRP: Rs 150/- (inclusive all taxes)

Rating:  4.25/5 (Good)

Reviewer: Rajesh D. Hajare (RDH)

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Blurb:

(Watch book trailer of  Without You on Youtube)

When Ananya, a bubbly twenty-year-old engineering student, reaches her Grandmother's house in Sreepuram on a month long vacation, romance is the last thing on her mind. However, she meets Dr. Arjun there and falls head over heels in love.

As it often happens, the path of true love never runs smooth..Circumstances force them apart even though they were madly in love. She becomes a victim of depression. When everything fails to return her to normalcy, help arrives from an unexpected source. Will she ever find happiness again? Will time allow her heart to heal and forget Arjun? What indeed is true love?

Travel with Ananya to the picturesque Sreepuram, face the chaos of Bengaluru, and relish the warmth of magical Dubai in this heartwarming tale of love, betrayal, friendship and miracles.

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Disclaimer: 

1. This is my personal opinion about the novel Without You and your views about the same book may be vary.
2. This is not a paid review.
3. Author signed Review copy of Without You was sent to me by the authoress of the book Preethi Venugopala.
4. Few quotes are used in this review as it is or with slight changes from the novel Without You with the permission of the authoress Preethi Venugopala and the reviewer does not claim to be the writer of those quotations.
5. Reviewer of this blog works as the President at Gondia branch of Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Parishad

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I am a bookworm. I love to read books. I like to review them. I had posted 2 book reviews in 2013. And then I posted a book review of the novel Hidden Husband by Shikha Kaul. I didn’t know that Hidden Husband’s review would give me an identity of a professional book reviewer. I would thank the author Shikha Kaul ma’am for her book Hidden Husband. I have reviewed only 11 reviews on this blog, but each of those book reviews is being highly appreciated by authors, reviewers, bloggers and my readers. I have the only word for your appreciation and for even a criticism- THANKS!! Kyunki criticize karne ke liye bhi aapne blog ko visit to kiye hi hoge. Now I have been posting mostly book reviews on this platform. And hopefully, this trend will go continue in future as well. Today, I have some unique ideas related my blog and book reviews. I will reveal them in future.

So, I have crossed a landmark of 400000+ visits on 8th February 2016. Coincidently I was talking with my young friend and a very intelligent student Aniruddha Pathak. I thank him for a million times as he poured sugar into curd that day! Yes! He built an android app of my blog which I am going to launch here. Thanks Aniruddha ji! I could launch the app of my blog on the very next day. But why I chose 14th February? This is a Valentine Day!! This day is dedicated to love, and I love my blog. I want to make this app launch memorable. So I am going to launch my app today on the auspicious occasion of Valentines Day. I thank all my friends who have joined this event on Facebook. I request you to just download and install my android app.

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