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The Crossover Year : Book Review

The Crossover Year by Bhargavi Balachandran My rating: 3 of 5 stars Aren't we all nothing but a bunch of memories and attitudes born out of our life experiences? - Bhargavi Balachandran, The Crossover Year Confusion and uncertainty can sometimes lead us onto our true, so-called 'destined' path.How exactly can one know where he/she is headed to? No matter how many coconuts one plans to break in temples(Oh yes, that's a common practice in India) or how much one wishes to just change the monotonous schedule and the emptiness in life that does tend to creep up at some or the other juncture in one's life; every problem has a solution. Every step we take becomes a cut above the rest of the ones that we took until then. Anu Prabha is a woman of substance who initially seemed like a confused, messed up lady with a crazy and bizarre streak to her personality. It is a humorous as well as thought-provoking journey with her. The characters resemble the ones we ha...

Chapter Eleven : Book Review

Chapter Eleven by Amit Shankar My rating: 3 of 5 stars It stood there braving the storms until the last gush of fearful wind brushed past its branches... Shatter it did, but so silently that its existence faded away just like the darkness when it was claimed forever! - Divya Nambiar This is what exactly came to my mind when I turned the last page of this book. A powerful story of what goes behind the sophisticated, glass structures of corporate offices- told with real proximity. The reader can expect to be surprised,disgusted,amused,shocked and regaling in the strange corporate world that is described in this book. Virendra Vikram Singh a.k.a. VVS, a 'Rajput' from a small town in India, lands in CommTech wearing rose-tinted glasses. Bit by bit the reality dawns upon him, albeit the fact that not all things are meant to last- not even one's hopes, dreams and trust. The author describes the 'Kissa Corporate Bankruptcy Ka' with amazing precisi...