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"The Tibetan book of the Dead" is translation work of Prof. Robert Thurman. This book is translation of "The Great Book of Natural Liberation through understanding in-between" or “The Bardo Thodol” in Tibetan. This is the translation of the original composition by Padma Sambhav. There are many translations of this great text. However as per the preface of The Dalai Lama, this one by the author is more realistic.  The book explains the phenomena of dying and is related to body of literature popular in Tibet which is similar in theme, and is kind of a manual for people who are facing the death of self or of dear ones. Death is one of the most mystic and researched topic in the world. There is no absolute truth, no explanation which can tell us to what happens after one person dies. This book attempts to tackle and explain the phenomenon with help of Tibetan Buddhism. So the book basically explains the in-between state, which refers to whole process between the death a...

Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm published by hachette, is a book on history of Bandits explaining their rise and expanse as a social phenomenon. If we see the profile of the author, he is one of the accomplished writer and historian and has produced major works like the Age of Revolution, the Age of Capital, the Age of Empire, the Age of Extremes, apart from several other books on social, political and economic aspects. Banditry is an old phenomenon. Bandits came into limelight due to their relentless opposition to the authorities. India has long seen banditry phenomenon and were called as "Dasyu" which was a bit different from Dacoit. Colonel Sleeman has written good account of same in  " A journey through the kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850". Even the  Boll ywood was fond of the topic which was mainstay of the films like Bandit Queen on the life of Phoolan Devi, Ganga ki Saugandh, Sholay and recently Paan Singh Tomar which has been played by Irrfan Khan. Mostly these movies...

                                       This Explains Everything                                         John Brockman Published by Perennial is a compilation of different articles written by various scientists, academicians and researchers having expertise in their areas. It is an attempt by the author to explain all major phenomena, especially related to science space human life in a single omnibus.  Now packing more than 125 articles in 400-page book is quite a task, both for the editor and the writer. On the one hand it gives benefit to the reader for getting knowledge, even if superficial, while on the other it devoids the depth of understanding for any topic discussed in the chapter. Nonetheless, having gone thr...

Trust Hernan Diaz Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.  This fiction is based in United States of America around early 1900 written by Hernan Diaz and published by Picador Books in 2022 and Booker Prized. The book is a story about business family which has migrated from Glasgow to United States of America. The book is in four parts which offers four different narrative. The unique format of the storytelling is USP, it has used both the descriptive format as well as the producing the first person account of the characters. It is a story of the couple Andrew Bevel and Mildred in New York.  In part one Bond, the description of the perspective by novelist Harold Vanner describes how money was made by Benjamin Rask (pseudonym) in trading. It is also the most popular version which was acceptable in New York. Rask was a trader and finance wizard with seldom any inclination for emotional aspects of life. When he got married to Helen, his life takes a sweet ...

  Shattered Land Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia    Sam Dalrymple / Harper Collins 2025 We all have studied history from different perspectives as presented by different historians to the ideology they have followed like left historians , sub-altern etc. The credit to Sam goes for the fact that he has presented this book as factually as possible without any tint of ideological bias. The book is divided into 15 chapter with detailed notes, epilogue, acknowledgement notes, maps and illustrations. The book starts with the introduction of the Simon Commission and it’s visit to Bombay wherein it held deliberations with Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Sarojini Naidu and Mahatma Gandhi . The relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah soured over certain misunderstanding. The chapter introduces the readers to the personal life of Jinnah, his wife Ruttie and daughter Dina . There is interesting map which shows places visited by Simon Commission, which starts from Ad...

CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable written by James Gleick , published by Vintage Books in 1998 is a popular science book which has been presented in a layman's language. The book takes an attempt to break the artificial boundaries that separate scientific disciplines because science is the global nature of systems and chaos has got together thinkers from various wheels that have been separate. Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working science. James Gleick was science reporter and editor of New York Times. It is written after a long observation of scientific phenomenon and decades of reporting on different science verticals. The book is divided on the basis of different themes of chaos like in the chapter " The Butterfly Effect ", he discusses the story of Edward Lorenz , which talks about the famous Lorenz curve study of weather prediction . The story of how he discovered that the weather behaviour was dependent on the initial co...