Its always about the people and the city...

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a”   This is Hazel's description of the book she likes in the book- The fault in our stars. In summary it is a book of a girl suffering with lung cancer who has to roam around with oxygen cylinder and has an extended life owing to a medical miracle whose side effects are also eating her away. The book frequently refers to how everything is a side effect of death. Depression, agony, hope, nostalgia - everything. She meets a young amputee, a cancer survivor at her support group and they fall . I won't say in love because for some reason the way John Greene has portrayed it, love seems like a cliche to be used for this extraordinary story.   In brief the plot is of cancer ridden Hazel who meets Augustus (Gus) and the life that follows. Gus dies before she does due to relapse of his...

I am not sure why I picked Narcopolis to read. I don't recall being recommended or reading about it. Nor was it a free download on my kindle. Whatever the reason was, I am glad I picked it. I loved it for the fact that it does nothing while and after you read it. It's like soft music played in some bars. You don't notice it and chat away...Only while you are leaving, you may appreciate how pleasant and natural it was and how well it blended with everything. So is Narcopolis a great book that gets on the list of books that will change your life? It's not. Infact it is one of the most ordinary book I have read. It accounts for lives of people-simple people you can relate to or identify within the set of people you know. I would say that is indeed the best part. Narcopolis accounts for real things so indifferently that everything feels alright. Lost dreams, desires, addiction, riots- name it and seems it's all just one small part of the big picture. The accou...

It is over. It got over soon after it started. She is dead. They say your life flashes in front of you when you know you are about to die... For a rape victim, I believe it would be the other way round. Your life hence flashes in front of you. That moment you see how it will turn out for you... Will you survive? Do you want to? How different would it be... will you ever be able to heal...How will this one incident interfere with all that you planned or envisioned for yourself? The arguments have ended now. Tomorrow is the final verdict for December 16 rape case of 23- year old girl. She was brutalized and then thrown out of a moving bus. This was after raping her, repeatedly and shoving an iron rod into her. Its the savagery of this case that made it rarest of rare, and cold blooded. There were demonstrations and articles and fast-track decisions and what not. There were arguments on rotten Indian society and status of women, safety of ...