If God Was A Banker By Ravi Subramanian

                                                          It is a story of two young graduates from premier Management institutes of country who started working for a Multi National Bank. Both came from different family and social backgrounds with one aggressive in his approach towards life and can go to any extent without moral bandwagon to restraint himself. The other a Tamil-Brahmin is just and rightful always bogged down by his shy and introvert approach but finally succeeded in life with his head held high and moral compass intact.
                                                         The story is full of cheap sleazy gimmickry fit for some B grade Bollywood movie , at times it becomes confusing. The author has nothing much to write but a story full of sex and a message that virtuous guy with ethics will succeed in life irrespective of hardships and impediments in life. It's a simple story of good triumphant over evil with erroneous sex stories where girls were always victims.

JNU Travesty

                                     For years media has incontestable run in complete complicity with left leanings central govt. Everything was hunky dory,powerful media created and tarnished images of individuals and groups with impunity,this honeymoon period of media - govt complicity continued for decades. People were eating out of there hands, next media created celebrities who take it upon themselves to report news and influence opinions with twist to glorify or play victimhood for one ideology while demonizing and blemished other ideology. Everything that went bad in India was assigned to a specific ideology blaming them for all the ills in our society without being confronted.

                                    For long the adjudicator inside such media wallas wasn't challenged and masses were tolerant towards there partisan reporting . Subversion and manipulating facts was always for strengthening democracy in country. Silent majority had to quitely contend with idiocy and hypocrisy of such media celebrities till they got a powerful medium to express (social media) to question and vent there opinions much to the disbelief of established media wallas. Free speech and freedom of expression are buzz words exploited mischievously by these celebrities to denounce anyone not toying there thinking.These celebrities free run ended with the advent of social media. 

                                      Unfortunately for them good times didn't last there lifetime giving nasty heartburn and shock to media celebrities. The sand castles they deligiently and painstakingly constructed were ravaged by people. Suddenly the king was caught naked with pants down by people whose ideology was mocked and ridiculed in the guise of liberalism and pluralism.For such sick media celebrities who hound others in a pack of wolves endorse Tipu Sultan as patriot while question the Bharat Ratna for Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. Kamlesh Tiwari for them doesn't have the right to express but Azam Khan has,the Kejriwal's of the world can abuse incumbent PM and these media celebrities suck up to him without raising fingers on content and manner.

                                   The hypocrisy of media wallas can be gauged from the fact that they discuss and browbeat about Dadri lynching for weeks without fail at expense of tarnishing communities goodwill and tearing the social fabric but there conscious bites the dust when  27-year-old PV Sujith was hacked to death by CPM workers in Kannur district of Kerala . Ravish,Sagarika,Rajdeep,Barkha's of the media world find it disturbing and consider stray attack on individuals from one community as growing intolerance of masses, give unstoppable sermons on religious bigotry while displaying ostrich approach if the victim belongs to religious majority.

                                     The recent case of raising Anti India slogans by bunch of students in JNU was case in point. The ferocity with which police swung into action after public outcry is laudable and real culprits who knowingly participated in such protests along with sloganeering thugs should have been ideally nabbed and incarcerated without delay. These media wallas in connivance with politicians deligently distorted facts and politicized issue.

                                  While people were outraged at JNU thugs conduct over seditious slogans, media liberals tried to again play mischief by focusing more on poverty of Kanhaiya and religion of Khalid. The zeal of certain media morons to again blemish central government as intolerant towards students by trying to put onus of blasphemous sloganeering on ghosts. Funny it maybe but ignominious acts of JNU accused is being justified by abusing hooliganism of few individuals in courts. The Kanhaiya  gang is exonerated of sedition by focusing on hooliganism of few who indulged in violence.

                                   The situation in our country has deteriorated immensely in last few decades,so as to now the secularism and liberalism is preached even when bunch of thugs raise seditious slogans in the heart of India.  In our democracy freedom to speech and expression is worthless if it doesn't strengthen our country . It's shameful that instead of incarcerating thugs of JNU our media wallahs have mischievously manipulated facts so efficiently that we Indians are engrossed discussing what freedom and patriotism is. 

                                    Finally its high time media wallas who have been dethroned should introspect rather then indulge in dramatics. There pretense of portraying themselves as holier than thou doesn't cut much ice with many Indians as they have been exposed multiple times and integrity is in shambles.              

The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon

                                                  "You will have to pay for your choices”
                                       Fatima Bhutto's novel The Shadow of the Crescent Moon is a story about the tragic lives of three brothers living in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. The novel touches the hardships people in restive provinces of Pakistan faces at the hands of Army,Taliban etc. It explores the physical, psychological and financial impact on lives of hapless civilians who are drawn into numerous unceasing insurgencies rampant in Pakistan.

                          The story is woven around aspirations ,hopes,deceit and betrayal .The Shadow of the Crescent Moon is a tragic tale of struggle for power,dignified life while narrates the horrible truths about the ‘war on terror’, including drone strikes and innocent casualties, in Pakistan’s tribal belt. The struggle and will of young to continue the fight against oppressor Pakistan against all odds, it dwells on the devastation caused by war,Shia-Sunni divide and fundamentalism. Truth is the story has some historical facts imbibed unknown to readers otherwise there's nothing much in the story that one would say refreshing. 

One Life Is Not Enough

                                         An unexamined life is not worth living- Plato.
                            One of the finest book i have recently come across is Natwar Singh's autobiography. The book is a beautiful journey of a guy a career diplomat and Gandhi family loyalist to a dissident outlaw of politics. This book is an interesting reflection of Natwar Singh's life which traverses from commotion of pre-independent India to behind the scenes of corridors of power today. You actually get engrossed in journey of a lifetime of a guy who rubbed shoulders with who's who at national and international stage without realizing its not fiction,that's how beautifully its written.

                           From indisciplined kid who scaled wall and ran away from dormitory of Scindia School, Nehru sisters catfight(sibling rivalry) everything adds to spice and fun in reading. In the end Natwar wrote at length about current political dispensation. Natwar Singh seems to be very sincere and truthful when writing about accomplishments of Nehru and Indira Gandhi as seen from the eyes of an IFS officer.After donning the robes of politician his journey took a different turn and he elaborated by praising Rajiv Gandhi way of functioning who was a novice himself in politics but a quick learner ,visionary and honest man who was courageous as well as humble to concede his mistakes. He elaborated how Sonia is allergic to criticism,behaves like a monarch with unquenchable power thirst and zero accountability. The spineless conduct of previous P.M ManMohan Singh also came to fore.

                        Finally this book is a compilation of memories some very sweet,some very funny like the Indian Monks collapsing, when they were told by the Buddhist Monks from Cambodia preferring beef for their food in India, or the collector of Kunchi on his twenty-fifth wedding, commenting on his wife, "When I married her, she was awfully simple, now she is simply awful" It was also an attempt to defend himself and gain sympathy on his controversial indictment in Volcker Report thus his expulsion from Congress party.