A JOURNEY CALLED LIFE

Title: Victims for Sale Author: Nish Amarnath Genre: Thriller Pages: 322 As the name suggests, this book is a hair raising thriller. The author is an erstwhile resident of the UK, hence her description of the neighborhoods of London and suburbs are so vivid and detailed. The book is really smart, witty and full of suspense and hence very difficult to put down.  The story is about a 19 year old journalism student Sandhya, who moves to London from India to pursue higher studies. However instead of staying in a dorm in the university campus, she chooses to live as a paying guest with an Indian family, arrangements for which she had done from India itself. However what seems like a normal family in the beginning, begins to unfold strange pages day by day. Her first sleep in that house is broken by an attack  with a knife; by the daughter of the family who is differently abled. Gradually everyday becomes an adventure in itself with Sandy getting emotionally involv...

The main use of vegetable oils are of course cooking. What are the common oils that you use? Sunflower oil, canola oil, mustard oil, coconut oil, palm oil, etc etc. However have you ever pondered upon the benefits of these oils? Or researched which oil has maximum nutrients and is much beneficial to your health? Here I would like to elucidate the benefits of palm oil and bust the myths surrounding it. There are two types of palm oil: Crude palm oil and crude palm kernel oil. Both these oils are chemically and nutritionally different from each other. Also the uses of these two oils are different.  Now there are many uses of palm oil.  Nutritiona l: Palm oil is very rich in calories. One teaspoon (4.5 gms) gives 40 calories. So it's an important component of daily diet. It is rich in Vitamin E in the form of tocotrienols. The distribution of Vitamin E in palm oil is 30% tocopherols and 70% tocotrienols. Crude palm oil contains 500-700 mg/kg of carot...

Title: A drop of you Author: Krishna Chhetri Genre: Romance Pages: 271 Before starting this book, ask a few questions to yourself. Do you believe in love? Do you believe in unconventional love? ie falling in love blindly, without thinking of the repercussions? Does love only mean marriage to you? Do you swear by 'and lived happily ever after?' As the name suggests, this book is a love story. The tagline says: Loving, with or without you. But hold on, you don't need to be a hardcore romantic to enjoy this book. This is a very practical story which revolves around millenials. Karma and Ghazal (the protagonists) are in love with each other. However it's not an ordinary love story. They belong to different religions and don't actually believe in conventional norms like tying the knot and all. They are in a live in relationship and their closest friends think that they are real #couplegoals . But when Karma professes his concerns about his '...

My mantra to a healthy life is simple... Include as many natural colours as possible in your diet. That's I why I love salads! And I found the perfect place for clean and healthy eating Leaf and Loaf !  Location: Situated in Signature Towers, A block, Noida sector 62, it's very easily accessible as it's on the main road as well as at a stone's throw distance from the Electronic City metro station. Ambiance: The ambiance is really cute. There are motivational quotes all over the place. Food is served in wooden plates which I loved.    Food: If you are looking for a place with healthy and clean food then this is it. Every ingredient is of superb quality and fresh. I had quite a few things but was not feeling guilty as everything was very healthy.  To start with I had Beetroot Detox drink. It contained beetroot, pomegranate and aloe vera with a pinch of salt. Believe me it was super delicious! And I was assured that it contained the much needed anti ox...

How many of you love fine arts? I bet most of you. Not necessarily painting something significant but just the activity of drawing and colouring. But how many of you have actually taken classes for it? I bet very few. The reasons maybe many. From hearing art is 'unimportant' from elders to being 'not good enough' to pursue arts as a profession. Or worse, you being told that one cannot sustain one's life with art. Sounds familiar? It did with Mr Ashwani too. Now who's this person? Mr Ashwani Kumar Prithviwasi deserves to be called a living legend because of his contribution in the field of fine arts. A person who is totally self made with no family background in Arts but who went on to become not only a successful artist but a great teacher and an entrepreneur with a chain of Art colleges under his belt. He believed that everyone should have the right to draw and paint and his institutes provide professional degrees to hobby classes, irrespective of age...

The protagonist of the story is a very young multi millionaire Gyan but he doesn't believe in the Almighty. This story is about the journey of Gyan to self realisation. This story is especially worth a read because it shows how a person who just doesn't believe in anything metaphysical undergoes a transformation. The author Pankaj Rajput is a financial advisor by profession but his interest lies in metaphysics and spirituality. No wonder he has ventured into the world of Vedic fiction penned down such a mystical story.  The narration starts with the protagonist Gyan, looking at the pictures of a recently excavated 4000 year old fort. He is one of the most successful and youngest start up guys but is a historian at heart. His company imparted education at very affordable prices. His heart lies in the excavation site and waited  for everyone to vacate it. They thought the discovery to be a fort but folklore believed something else. They said that it was a temple and it...

The scariest time of the year is here! Its trick or treat! Yes, Halloween is just a month away. Halloween brings so many things in mind. For some its candies, for some scary movie marathon, for some its carving pumpkins while for some its going to costume parties. But one thing that you simply can’t ignore is the importance of costumes! If there is a single most favourite thing about the scariest festival of the year, then its the fun of dressing up! Dresslily has an impressive collection for this particular day. Pumpkin themed dresses, scary face leggings, witch stockings, etc etc. Here is what I picked for the much awaited horror day! Pumpkin print Dress : Halloween is incomplete without pumpkins. Hence an orange colured pumpkin print dress is the first thing that I would like to wear. How cute are those smiling pumpkins? Spider Web Poncho : How cute yet creepy is this one? Get ready to engulf all the evil in your web! Sweatshirt : The weat...