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The Way of The Cat: Surviving Metastasized Cancer by Itzhak Be'er My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is about fight with Prostate cancer. It is s deadly disease and afflicted person loses all hope and descends into depression. Itzhak Be'er is a fighter who came out triumphant. He is optimistic, active, assertive and adaptable. A new chemotherapy protocol named Logothetis is used. It drains you but worked. This is Book of hope of survival. View all my reviews

Touches of Grace: Philanthropy and Social Involvement in Israel by Haim Dahan My rating: 3 of 5 stars Haim Dahan is an entrepreneur. This book gives detailed background and details of philanthropy in Israel. As per him Israel wealth distribution is highly unequal. Though government has social service programs these are not adequate. Then voluntary donation comes into picture. Philanthropy is imperative for a just fair and equitable society. Though book becomes boring at places due to dull nature of subject and many charts and tables, the underlying message is excellent. View all my reviews

Listen to Your Soul and Heal Your Body of Chronic Disease by Meirav Harel My rating: 4 of 5 stars HUMAN BODY IS a complex machine. No one can understand the full working of it. Even the so called expert doctors know only a fraction of its mysteries. Disease is our soul telling us there is something wrong. We have to learn to listen. First key is that only we can cure us from disease. This is a good helpful book and have practical application. View all my reviews

When Opposites Meet by Sachin Garg My rating: 3 of 5 stars Love is a strange thing. It can happen to anyone. It doesn’t matter who that person is. Love knows no logic. It can happen with someone who is like you or totally unlike you. The book is about love of polar opposites. There are three love stories in the book featuring polar opposites in each. 1. Main story is of Ritwika and Chetan Jadhav. They both suffer from a rare genetic disease. Ritwika is differently abled and wheel chair bound. She is studious, creative and intelligent but very weak and frail physically. Chetan is a wrestler who is accused of using drugs. He is very strong physically but not so bright mentally. They are different like chalk and cheese. 2. Indu Dua is Ritwika’s mother who is very bindass with her. Indu and Ritwika are more like friends than mother daughter. He meets her professor Lokesh who is brilliant scientifically but awkward socially. They also fall for each other....

The Last Chai: Bringing the Nation to a Halt by Varun T. My rating: 4 of 5 stars With evolving technology and counter terrorism methods, even the terrorists has benefited. They also become more tech savvy and use deadlier weapons to kill and spread terror. And the network is global and their motives are many. With a nationalistic PM they want to thwart the progress of India at any cost. Ajay Kamate is under a lot of stress and is sent on leave by Doshi, The PM. But he is paranoid for his safety and come back before end of leave. Now the terrorist are using cyanide as their favourite weapon. He has nabbed a young boy who killed Bhardwaj his partner too. They try to get information from him but in vain. Now with Bhardwaj gone Ajay is under double pressure. Poorvi is a left leaning journalist who breaks the story of that young terrorist. When Doshi goes to Pakistan for SAARC summit Ajay goes with him. Somehow Doshi is poisoned and he goes in to coma. Aj...

Voyagers into the Unknown by Ruchira Khanna My rating: 4 of 5 stars A trip to Tajmahal is all that it takes to unload your mental and emotional baggage. Taj is one of the seven wonders of world and symbol of love. Raj is an emphatic tour guide who has a gift to heal others. Meera is his ideal companion. Raj is a tour guide who does no promotion or publicity. His business run on word of mouth publicity. He has a knack of feeling emotional traumas of others and heal them. He is in a way a therapist though not having a professional degree. His method is also unconventional. He makes the person feel and work through his/ her pain. There are five main tourist on this trip. 1. Ira is a beautiful woman who is deceived by her lover Peter. She became depressed and suicidal. But her well-wisher send her to Raj tours. 2. Darci and Lennard is a couple who went through a rough patch due to recession. This put financial strain on them and Darci does the unthinkabl...

Destined by Rubina Ramesh My rating: 3 of 5 stars Which is better marriage: love or arranged? Nobody knows for sure. Common sense says that love marriage is better. Two people fall in love, have a courtship period and know each other. Then they decide to take it one level up. That is marriage. But what happens to arranged marriage couples. Do they suffer a loveless marriage forever? Is it inflicted on the hapless couples? What is marriage? Is it a holy bond or just a legal contract between two parties? Religion says this is a bond till death do them apart. Law says this is just a contract between two consenting adults. This book tries to answer these questions. What is the answer? For that you have to buy the book and read it for yourself. Here is the amazon link: https://www.amazon.in/Destined-Rubina... https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Rubin... Esha is desperate because she has to arrange money for treatment of her father. She has lost her mother to ...

Which is better marriage: love or arranged? Nobody knows for sure. Common sense says that love marriage is better. Two people fall in love, have a courtship period and know each other. Then they decide to take it one level up. That is marriage. But what happens to arranged marriage couples. Do they suffer a loveless marriage forever? Is it inflicted on the hapless couples? What is marriage? Is it a holy bond or just a legal contract between two parties? Religion says this is a bond till death do them apart. Law says this is just a contract between two consenting adults. This book tries to answer these questions. What is the answer? For that you have to buy the book and read it for yourself. Here is the amazon link: https://www.amazon.in/Destined-Rubina-Ramesh-ebook/dp/B075ZS2MZH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510153667&sr=8-1&keywords=destined https://www.amazon.com/Destined-Rubina-Ramesh-ebook/dp/B075ZS2MZH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510153667&sr=8-1&ke...

Undelivered Letters by J. Alchem My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is my second book of J Alchem. First one read is “The Highway Man”. Review can be read here:- https://www.amazon.in/gp/customer-rev... Letters have become like dinosaurs now a days. We have e-mail, Facebook, Whatsapp and twitter. This is the age of instant messages. All these IM apps can’t hold candle to a real letter. Letter has emotions of the writer as it is handwritten. The recipient also feels a connection as the person took out time and effort of writing and posting it. The book about letters which are undelivered for 20 years. Some of the person died or separated. Aron is a postman who forgot to deliver 9 letters. He finds them after 20 years and decide to deliver them on the advice of his wife. What happens? The book is written in a concise language. This has some real emotions. But I find this book unsatisfactory. First the stories seems rushed. Second the reactions after getting ...

The Guardian by Anna del Mar My rating: 3 of 5 stars Africa is rich in flora and fauna. Now many species are on the verge of extinction. But there is someone who is fighting the poachers. Jade Romo, a journalist comes to Africa to uncover some secrets. Game warden Matthias Hawking is ex navy seal and fighting against the poachers. He admits here reluctantly knowing full well she means trouble. But he is attracted to her as well. He saves her from deadly thugs and then what happens? Book has both erotic and thrill elements. The pace is good and story keeps interest going. It is a good one time read for sake of thrill and romance. 3/ 5 stars. View all my reviews