Reminiscing India Indepence Movement with literary gems

Here is a call for the readers as every reader and a book lover has his taste or I would rather say his favorite subject. And, in my context, I must confess that I like books that evokes a feeling of patriotism in me and recall me about the independence movement. As these books, not only help me to get a better understanding of the history of India but also evokes a feeling in me to do something for the nation. To add this subject in my taste, I would say blame it on my background being involved in the Independence movement, my grandfather in person.

Thus, on the eve of Independence Day, I could not think of a better time to come out with the best books with my top 3 titles on Indian Independence Eve. Read on and celebrate the eve of Independence Day.

Freedom at Midnight ByLarry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

The book mainly centers around the movement of India Independence, during the time between 1946 and 1948. The novel includes the series of events that happened during the period and are worthy of this book being categorized as the historical one. The book has been written with an extensive research and provides incredible details that has been never revealed. The book is highly recommended on India Independence and partition. The book also includes interviews of Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of British India.

The Proudest Day:India's Long Road to Independence By David Fisher and Anthony Read

The book is brisk, racy and the incident-laden narration, from the founding of the Indian National Congress to the period of independence, attained by India. The explanation has been perfectly given, as has given a great feel to the book. Do not get intimidated by its size and yes, it has revealed the likes of Gandhiji and Lord Mountbatten, which seems to be worse.

 India: A history By John Keay

The novel has been penned by John Keay, an English journalist and author, who is specialized in writing popular histories about India, particularly focussing on the colonization and discovery by Europeans. In “India: A history”. In this book, John provides a panoramic view starting from the cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro of the Indus Valley civilizations all the way to the current modern India. The book is a great guide for the history students in India

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Unraveling teaser: Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Half-Girlfriend’ is just a cliché!

Love him or hate him, but you just can’t ignore him. Half Girlfriend, a new chestnut, actually holds quite true for Chetan Bhagat and guess what he makes damn sure that it does. The author of best-seller books like Five Point Someone, Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States has made an attempt to cease your wait.And for all the Chetan Bhagat’s fans out there, there is a good news for you!
Your wait is finally over as after a wide gap of three years, India’s biggest storyteller, Chetan Bhagat has finally come up with his another much awaited novel, Half Girlfriend, a love story with a setting of Bihar. The author has released an official teaser of his upcoming novel, Half Girlfriend, through which he has revealed the detailed synopsis of the novel. The story of the book revolves around a boy from Bihar, Madhav who fells in love with a girl, Riya. The story is about the love life of these two and the conflicts between them for having a relationship and this Bihari boy want to be in a relationship with the love of her life and this girl wants to be just friends with him. So, she decides to be his half girlfriend.
However,after watching its teaser you will discover that this novel has a semi-rural love story has got nothing new to offer and the plot in it really seems nothing more than old wine in a new bottle. The novel is set to be released on October 9, 2014.

His new novel with a unique title is creating buzz across the nation. So just get ready to read this book and for this kindle book you can place your online order of book at Lelobooks, an authentic online bookstore in India. Get ready for another blockbuster hit and soon-to-be-movie novel. 

Get raison d'êtres of the eternity of Chacha Chaudhary

The character of Chacha Chaudhary has been enjoyed by everyone in their childhood days and also had been a part of our school syllabus. From replacing the comic book with the Maths textbook in the class to our constant companion in the bathroom, Chacha Chaudhary has made an impact in the hearts of millions. This legendary comic character has been the invention of the great Cartoonist Pran, who left us recently. Find below the reasons why Chacha Chaudhary will be etched in our memories, for the rest of our lives.

1) He had a mongrel for a pet and a truck for a car. As for a usual middle class man, it is a mark of brevity and intelligence.

2) You never knew where he could turn up. From Delhi to America, he can land up anywhere and everywhere from anywhere and everywhere.

3) He is a superhero with an adorable personality  without possessing any special powers or monetary influence over the society.

4) Chacha Chaudhary ka dimaag computer se bhi tez chalta hai only if he could solve our mathematical problems for us in school!

5) He holds the record of solving many mysterious and complicated cases that even James Bond and Scotland Yard failed to solve. Now tell me who is a true genius!

6) Chacha is very familiar and relatable character as we all have at least one character like him in our homes.

7) Another character associated with this legendary comic character, his wife Belan Bini is his rolling-pin-wielding wife, who strikes a chord in our heads about our mothers. Some of her famous dialogues, which everyone of us would have heard in homes are such as 'Kya din bhar Duniya ko hi thik karoge, kuch ghar ka bhi khayaal hai?,Jaao jake raashan le aao'' .

8) In this comic novel,even in the scenes of fighting off evil robbers and thieves, this adorable character of Chacha Chaudhary has taught us lessons and good behavior that will stay with us forever. Like this comic teaches us 'Athhithi devo bhava'

9) Who wouldn't want a friend from the planet Jupiter? Sabu was the most lovable extraterrestrial creature, one could come across is the assistant of this legendary character Chacha Chaudhary, who cannot be forgotten in the times to come.

10) The characters of Billu and Pinky remind us of our ourselves in our childhood and we saw us helping Chacha someday!

There are many more reasons that are cherished by us from this comic book. For more news like this which will entertain and enlighten you, stay tuned with Lelobooks,an online book store in India

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy

Directed by James Gunn, "Guardians of the Galaxy" is an action movie. With the duration of about 121 minutes and has came from the studio that brought up avengers and ironman3.

The movie is about the uncertainty of the future of the galaxy, whose present is pleasant. Like the movie's star, its director was an audacious choice for a mega budget-space opera, and a smart one; his movie making style is rich in oddity,his most prominent feature until now was the horror comedy "Slither." Mr. Gunn gives this production a free-swinging style. The whole story revolves around to save the orb from wrongful hand A bounty hunter finds himself pursued by powerful enemies after the former theft an uncertain future of the galaxy. Realizing that the orb can be disastrous in the wrong hands, he made a team with four other dodgy individuals, all united by a common cause - to keep the orb (and what it contains) from the wrong hands.

The people who made this movie must have had a bad time in the process, and it's nice to see a summer epic that takes itself so non-seriously. Eventually the wink-and-nod whimsicality wears thin, and you Imagine how this errant gang is going to keep its antics fresh in subsequent episodes. For now, though, Marvel has maintained its standards in the action department—cluttered or not, the screen is alive with marvelous images—and has won a crucial gamble on its star. Peter is not only a good man playing outlaw; he is, as played by Mr. Pratt, a good nature guy and an exemplary pleasant American hero. "I couldn't let you die," he spoke to  Gamora after curing her life. "I found something inside myself incredibly heroic—not to brag." The disclaimer isn't needed. We get that Peter enjoys himself, so we're up for enjoying him.

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The creator of Chacha Chaudhary died at 75

The creator of the iconic Indian comic book character Chacha Chaudhary, Pran died today at the age of 75 in New Delhi. The great Indian cartoonist, Pran Kumar Sharma, according the official website of  chacha Chaudhary, was the first Indian artist-writer to come up with comic books whose protagonists were characters rooted deep in Indian rural and middle class ethos.

Some of his most popular creations and one of them is of course Chacha Chaudhary, a short, lean man in a huge red pagdi,who fought everyone from hooligans to pretty robbers with flamboyance. He always had been accompanied by a giant man called Saboo, who was apparently known to be from Jupiter.

The celebrated character of Chacha Chaudhary was created in 1971 and it was a milestone work, which has been contributed to the society and has been known as the fusion of sci-fi, filmy action and Indian middle class oddities and has been offered as a wholesome entertainer for people across the ages.

The originator of this great comic character, Pran was born in Kasur near Lahore, in the undivided India. After completing his bachelors degree in political science from Gwalior, he went to Mumbai for studying art in the JJ School of Art, but left the course midway.

Pran started his career as a cartoonist in the year 1960 with Indian dailies. His  works in comics includes Billoo, Pinki, Raman, Shrimatiji and later created a separate series of comics on Saboo, Chacha Chaudhary's assistant.

What is common in all his character is that they are superheroes, who even exists today and resemble in their own small ways like while Billoo was an unbearably naughty boy, he was extremely sharp and could wriggle out of any soup he was in. Pinki, another of Pran's character, was again a small girl, who was extremely brave and ready to take up challenges. Chaudhary, famously, was said to have a brain 'which worked faster than a computer'.

Pran's superheroes were utterly adversative to the erection of the superhero popularized by saying a Marvel Comics in the West. Most of Pran's characters did not possess any super-powers - they were average humans who used their brains well. Chaudhary's superheroes, essentially, were ideal human beings and looked and sounded like any of us. No wonder then, they were household names and were loved by generations of comic book lovers in India. Many of Pran's works were animated, turned into cartoon films etc.

The Chacha Chaudhary website says about Pran, "He travelled widely over the globe including countries like America, England, France, Germany, Australia, Spain, China, S.Korea etc he delivered speeches to the gatherings of cartoonists on the subject wherever he went."

Pran, the website quotes, had said, "If I could put a smile on the face of people, I would consider my life successful."

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Book Review- The Emperor’s Riddle By Satyarth Nayak

The Indian Fiction has struggled for over the years in the process of taking its position in the society and this substantial literature, incorporated with the genres like a thriller and mystery, which in turn has finally given a ray of hope to the Indian literature.

After devouring  the author Satyarth Nayak’s debut novel, you will get to imagine and realize how bright does the future lies for our young author and the Indian readers. As soon as you will open the book, you will be provided with the recommendations from Amish Tripathi, which will raise your expectations from the book. And, my dear friends, the book will not be a disappointment at all!

The novel by Satyarth Nayak, The Emperor’s Riddle has an intricately woven plot, which keeps shambling between uncovering a mystery with its roots buried somewhere in the past and the forgotten corridor of history of Buddhist epoch. The books like this often run the risk of being just another having one of those western plots, which is a revision work for the Indian audience. This is the point where Satyarth manages to catch the unawares completely. The book has all in it like history, mystery, sci-fi and philosophy, which is seamlessly intertwined into a plot, this is one book you will find hard to put down until you reach its climax.

The plot of the novel with its commencement will start tingling your imagination tingling. When in the story, the historian Ram Mathur is murdered under stimulating circumstances, his daughter Priya joins forces with the renowned mysterious author Om Patnaik to ravel the evidences in the form of riddles that Ram Mathur has dotted over different eras of history. Together, they set on the course of history with the dark forces together with shattering at their heels. They find the circumstances more complicated than they anticipated, Priya and Om are up against a historic wing that has taken a perpetual oath to look after the secret, no matter what it takes.

Start Nayak is a Delhi based writer, scriptwriter & journalist and has been honored in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. His debut novel clearly reflects his interest and understanding in mystery. With much success and applause, which his first novel has already earned for him, I personally can hardly wait for more from our very own Indian Dan Brown.

The book is available at Lelobooks, an online bookstore in India. So, in order to get this literary gem by our very own Dan Brown, order now and get your book at your doorstep.

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भगवद्गीता का सार

भगवद्गीता विश्वभर में भारत के अध्यात्म ज्ञान के मणि के रूप में विख्यात है। भगवान श्री कृष्ण द्वारा अपने घनिष्ट मित्र अर्जुन से कथित गीता के सारयुक्त 700 श्लोक आत्मसाक्सात्कार के विज्ञान के मार्गदर्शक का अचूक कार्य करते है। मनुष्य के सव्भाव उसके परिवेश तथा अन्ततोगत्वा भगवान श्री कृष्ण के साथ उसके सम्बन्ध को उद्घाटित करने में इसकी तुलना में अन्य कोई ग्रन्थ नहीं है।

कृष्णकृपामूर्ति श्री श्रीमद्.ए.सी भक्तिवेदान्त सवामी प्रभुपाद विश्व के अग्र्रश्य वैदिक विद्वान है और वे भगवान श्री कृष्ण से चली आ रही अविच्छिन्न गुरू-शिष्य परम्परा का प्रतिनिधित्व करते है। इस प्रकार गीता के अन्य संस्करणों के विपरीत वे भगवान श्री कृष्ण के गंभीर संदेश को यथारूप प्रस्तुत करते है-किसी प्रकार के मिश्रण या निजी भावनाओं से संजित किए बिना है।

महात्मा गांधी

जब मैं मुसीबतों से घिरा होता हूं और जब मुझे आशा की कोई किरण नजर नहीं आती तब मैं भगवद्गीता के शलोक को पड़ कर अपना हृदय शांत कर लेता हुं। मुझे भगवद्गीता को पडक़र अपनी मुसीबतों से निजात मिल जाता है और मेरा चेहरा फिर से गुलाब की तरह खिल जाता है।

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