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Happiness!!

                  Happiness! Can you define the exact meaning of happiness? What is happiness and what it is not? Currently we are living in a happy - obsessed environment, where people around us can be seen exploding their happy smiling faces on TV and social media showing their version of happiness. We all here are want to happy but do we ever though about what happiness actually means? Happiness can be defined as an emotional or effective  state that is charecterised by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction. A quick Google search for the word “happiness” shows over 2 million results. Further, a scan for the same term in two of psychology’s biggest online databases (PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES) returns 19,139 results from academic and other journals, books, dissertations, and more. In Oxford English Dictionary "Happiness" is defined as "The state of being happy" but it's not much helpful to clear our doubt. But, the de...

Driver is not my name

Being India the blend of different cultures and peoples there are so many differences of food, behaviour, lifestyle and practices can be seen. The things we believe and the way we live is different but deep inside we all are the same. There is a thread connect us with each other. Sometimes how  meeting someone unknown unexpectedly even for a moment can leave impact on particular's life thi book is all about that. Book - Driver Is Not My Name   Pages - 81 By - Raj Prabhakar Driver is not my name by Raj Prabhakar is a book about extraordinary expressions by ordinary peoples. This book is all about subtle and similar small experience we live everyday but can't be active enough to grasp and think about them deeply. Each chapter in the book is sneak peek of authors life experiences concerned with how can a little moment, a one person can change a whole of a perspective for another one. The kind of stories that explores the cultural eccentricities of society while sub...

The Mind Game

             Is being hardworking enough to be successful? Or anything else it needed? Yes, strong mind. And not only for being successful but a healthy and strong mind helps one to lead a happy normal life. Being strong minded is being able to handle emotions wisely. Life here is giving us so much pain, love, heartbreaks, betrayal, happiness, at different stages of our lives. And at some point we all think about 'how great it'd be if no emotions were made! Wouldn't it be great to be unaffectable one.' But but emotions are something that makes us human. If one will learn to handle emotions and understand the situation wisely there's nothing that can stop him from leading a happy and peacful life. Why I'm talking all wisely today? Actually it's the effect of the book I read recently!! 😅 Book name - The Mind Game By - Devika Das Pages - 203 The Mind Game by Devika Das is self-motivation book. This book is kinda manual to manage and und...

You Are My Last Love

Being someone's first love may be great but being their last is beyond perfect.But what if this last love is never meant be yours? Book - You Are My Last Love  By - Kounain Sahi Amidst the twists and turns in life, we encounter certain tales which leave a spectrum of memories behind. This is one such tale which is engulfed by the memories of Sameer and Sehar, but as we inch ahead in this journey, we will surely realize that it’s the story of everyone who tries to put themselves in the shoes of Sameer or Sehar. From the crazy campus days, Sameer lands to corporate as an IT professional where he meets Sehar in his first job and they fall in love. What trespassed their journey such that it pierced each block of their canvas of love? What dismantled the township of 'Sameer-ki-Sehar'? Sehar was his first love, but was she his last love as well? To know that you've to read the book. A heartbreaking, romantic and emotional tale based on a true love story which wil...

Turn The Tables - Priya Kumar

            "The journey forward is not so much about  our dream as much as it is of becoming worthy for them." This whole sentence held whole picture of life we're (nowday's generation is) living. I've highlighted it from a wonderful book I read recently. Book - Turn The Tables By - Priya Kumar Pages - 276 Well I don't think any Indian reader here is unknown to Priya Kumar ? And if you're I'd like to give a quick intro of her here. Priya Kumar is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker with more than 24 years of corporate training experience. Priya has written 11 inspirational books which have won 32 international book awards. Now talking about book,when you face a sudden confusing situations in life you run to the person who you feel can guid you better. When they advice you on something it's not by only analyzing the situation but there are beems of the experience they have had in their life which makes them a bet...

I've Never Been Good At..

I've Never Been Any Good At Leaving Things Where They Lie. I Pick Them Up A Thousand Times, Even After They've Crumbled, Even After They're Ash. I Try To Fix Them. I Get Out My Glue And I Get Out My Tape And I Try To Remember What They Looked Like Before They Shattered. I Don't Think I Do Them Justice. I Add Too Much Shine, Too Much Glitter. Too Few Dents. ( We Had So Many Dents) I've Just Never Be Any Good At Leaving Things Where They Lie. ( I Lied When I Said Good Bye)

I Will Forget You Too..

    Everyone’s heart has been broken once; everyone has been betrayed at some point in their lives and has lost hope and faith in love… perhaps, more than once. Have these things done that you renounce love? Is it that easy to forget someone you gave your heart and your soul to? Is it? Book - I Will Forget You Too By - Abhilash Aman Pages - 95 I Will Forget You Too by Abhilash Aman is a story of a boy named Abhilash who falls in love with his classmate and with this simple amount of new feelings developing in him made him admire all the things which are associated to her. His innocent love became deeper when she too confessed her love to him. What happen next.? You should read the book to know. This book is a journey of emotions with well-paced description done using simple language and well-built sentences quirky as some places. The title itself manages to give you the idea of story and the protagonist's departure as well. Charecterization is up to the poin...

Fireflies In The Backyard

    Short stories have always been something I craved from childhood. I remember the days I used to bug both my Grandmothers and my mom to tell me stories everyday unrepeatedly. Each that book I pick which contains short stories it seems nostalgic to me and I love to cherish moments which are still dearest to me. So you people will be thinking why I'm rambling today about short stories!Well today I'm here with another book review of a very beautiful book. Book - Fireflies In The Backyard By - Pranjal Hazarika Fireflies In The Backyard by Pranjal Hazarika is a collection of short stories which can always be kept close to our heart. There's exact 11 stories which implies deep bitter experiences of life faced by people around us and we can never be unaware of. People says don't judge a book by it's cover but how can we miss the cover which is designed so beautifully! This was certainly a lot more good read than what we usually read. When I first started...

रहस्यमयी गुरु

Hey Beautiful HumanBeings! I'm up with a new review and this time with author's Interview!!! Here's a book I came through while I was searching for some good quickey reads and It was titled as ' Rahasyamayi Guru '. As a reader and specially when I belong to a Hindi speaking family I love reading hindi books as they contain simple yet eligent story and can be read pretty quickly. So this book is a story of person who is motivated by the condition of winning his love by being successful in his life with well - written plot and well-charecterization.  With this I got chance to interview the author. Here's something interesting I found about him. About Author - The author is a traveling ticket inspector in Indian railways who loves positiveness and self-confidence and his aim is providing this virtue to the readers also. There's some questions which I personally asked to the author out of curiosity and the replies I got really made me happy...