Review: Life and Promises.

• Book: Life and Promises.
• Authors: Pulkit Gupta and Ila Garg.
• Publication House: Author's Empire Publications.
• Category: Fiction.
• Rating: **** 1/2 (4 and 1/2 out of 5) 

Story-in-Short:

Rachit, a young, ambitious boy, hailing from a small town of Western UP, has big dreams. Destiny takes a turn when he attempts to commit suicide and lands up in a hospital bed. 

There, he bumps into Khushi, a chubby girl with a carefree attitude. She insists Rachit to uncover the pages of his life and tell her – what compelled him to take such a drastic step. 

Rachit starts to narrate his story, seeing no other option. He tells her that he dreamt to be an IITian and even achieved it. Things went well for some days, till that fateful day when Rachit was diagnosed with severe health issues. 

After a while, already heartbroken, Rachit takes a tough decision. He drops his IIT dream and follows the CA path. In this very process, he overlooks Radhika, a gorgeous Bengali girl, his batch mate as well as his girlfriend. 

In My View:

First a confession: My words will surely fall of short if I begin describing this book which I have began calling ‘a masterpiece of romance.’ I have read so many novels on the topic of love and romance but this is a truly distinctive work. I received three books from Pulkit but chose to read this as it has a fabulous cover. The publication house Author’s Empire must be credited for the enthralling book cover. 

Now, coming to the review of the book. The story begins at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi where Rachit meets Khushi. Khushi tries to interact with Rachit who responds angrily to her. Despite of having faced his anger, Khushi shows kindness by helping him when nobody does. A desperate Khushi then asks him about the reason for his presence in the hospital. This is when Rachit confesses to her that he’d committed a suicide. Rachit then divulges the story of his life. He reveals how his happy life suddenly disrupts due to the illness, how he was forced to give up his dream of becoming an IITian and later had to pursue CA and how things start going haywire in his life. And this is the juncture from where the actual and the crucial story further unfolds which you yourself need to capture.

• Authors: Pulkit Gupta and Ila Garg.

When I began reading the book, I developed a kind of bond with it. Although it's a love story, yet it has so many slots, phrases and lines which develop a positive attitude towards life. The story is so interesting that it makes one forget all downs in life and keeps one engrossed in it. I must credit Pulkit and Ila for presenting this story wherein human emotions, expressions, thoughts are so minutely described.

The poetic lines of Rachna Sheth embellishes the prettiness of each and every story. It pulls a reader deeper and deeper inside the story. Rachna should be credited for her brilliant and beautiful poetic lines which gives this book a very different flavor. 

This book gets you a mixture of emotions, feelings and kindness. It is a marvelous book which you once start reading would not like to place apart. I would surely request the book lovers, readers and all my dear friends (especially teenagers like me) to invest money for this book and have a great time reading it. In fact, get your copies today. 

• Life and Promises is available in all the leading book stores. 

• You can also get it online at: Home Shop 18, Amazon, Infibeam, Uread, Book Adda.  

Review: Kashi – a novel.

• Book: Kashi- a Novel.
  
• Author: Terin Miller.
• Publication House: Author’s Empire.
• Category: Fiction.
• Rating: ****

First a confession: After having read this book I have become a great fan of author Terin Miller. Here, I would like to quote Ritu Lalit, ‘A spellbound tale by an American author about an Indian woman who redefines freedom in the conservative Indian society if 1980’s.’

Well, talking about the book, Kashi is a story of a generation of Indians unlike any that has come before them – born in a free and independent country. The book introduces four main characters viz. John, Chet Bardus, Meetha and Liz. John, a journalist associated with an American organization, covers some local stories from there. Chet Bardus is an American who comes to Varanasi. Liz is a student who arrives in India for her research work and get’s in touch with Meetha who is the daughter of a Delhi-based wealthy import-export businessman.

Liz and Meetha in Varanasi, meet and befriend John and Bardus and then the riveting and alluring story takes its grip. The story, I must say, has been presented in an effective manner.

The fashion in which Terin Miller has described certain things, places in the book really makes a reader stick to it for as long as possible. Especially the portrayal of their trip to Windamere Mountain’s is the best narrated part.

The tale describes India during older times. It revitalizes the generation of 1980’s. It shows the perspective of Indian’s of those days.

Having born in an modern generation, I always had this curiosity of knowing about the older days. My relatives did tell me spectrum of things but those, truly fall less in front of this book.

The cover of the books is also appealing and its designer Sunil Kaushik must be credited for the same.
Over-all, the book brings you a fascinating and cherishing story. The tale, Miller’s radiant writing and its presentation makes Kashi book a must-read.