Inner Confines

The Unnamed Story My rating - 5/5 Blurb - SANJEEV- This is my story, my story of picking up my pen and inspiring people through my words. I just wonder, how could we miss simple things in life, though we aim and achieve all big things. This is my journey through all simple things, emotions and love, to find out what I really need and deserve. ANJANI- This is my story, my story of love and dreams. I believe, love is the only thing that never ends, even when the whole world vanishes. I fell for someone, who was in true love with words. This is my journey of exploring love, more importantly myself. SHIV AND MAHA : This is our story, our story of falling in love, each and every moment. A story of courage and determination, to fight, to live and fall in love, once again. We want our memories, past, present, everything to be filled only with happiness, nothing else. What happens when these individual lines of different poems are wound together? Some stories never need a name, f...

The Last Chai: Bringing the Nation to a Halt by Varun T. My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb- The year is 2019. The world, as we know today, is not the same anymore.  Blatant threats of war by ‘world leaders’ is the new normal. Gone are the days when mobilizing armies at borders, or aiming missiles at adversaries, was a rare phenomenon. With every nation or their allies possessing nuclear weapons, victory through conventional means is no longer possible, paving way for covert warfare to emerge as the preferred weapon.  New Delhi is an easy target and Doshi, the unassailable supremo of the regime, is on the ‘hit list’. The threat assessment being at an all time high, Ajay Kaamte, the director of SPG (Special Protection Group), is tasked with protecting the PM. Intelligence claims that the PM is susceptible to cyanide attacks and situation is grim, to say the least.  Will Doshiji survive to serve another term or will he very soon be having his last chai? My views ...

I Wear The Smile You Gave by Shweta Shah My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb- Ajeet is a commoner, a boy next door who is away from the Worldliness and moreover just a happy-go-lucky guy. Aditi and Ajeet are batch mates in a Junior College and share a good chemistry. Aditi is all head over heels for Ajeet and without any hesitation, irrespective of the time and place boldly conveys her feelings for him. Ajeet was infatuated towards Aditi, however, finds his true love in Sumi whom he meets in his coaching class. Wanting to break away from the conventional norms and the shackles of a traditional familial business and to prove his worth to his dad, Ajeet joins Army. Years later a tragedy connects Ajeet, Sumi, and Aditi once again, however, changing their lives forever.   My views- I Wear The Smile You Gave by Shweta Shah is an romantic fiction. The first and foremost thing which I liked in the book is the beautiful cover and its little unusual title "I wear the smile...

The Perfect Flaw by Sailesh Mishra My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb- WHAT IF THE FORCES DECIDE TO PLAY ALL AGAINST YOU BUT YOUR GREATEST WEAPON STAYS INSIDE YOUR HEAD? Welcome to the world of Jonty. A sensible and matured teenager whose life finally started to make sense after several years of an accident trauma which wiped out his memory and killed his father. His college life was at an all time high with a typical best friend and dramatic crushes. But life is not that predictable, is it? As his life shifted south-ways in the craziest way possible, he transformed into a normal college kid to a swearing, cursing example of violence who will stop at nothing to protect his family. Being escorted and trained by a Castellan Prize Winner Dr Vikram Jaitley and a special task force agent Raghav Goswami starting from the streets of Delhi to the natural alleyways of Odisha, Jaydev Shekhawat(Jonty) would be facing against an enemy who is without a face as it is not some perso...

Army Girl Steals Civilian's Heart by Oswald Pereira My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb- Amrita Datta is petite and pretty, with large light brown eyes. But she calls herself an Army Girl, because of her army background. Her father and his two brothers were army officers, inspired by an uncle who almost became army general when Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister. Marrying army officers is a tradition in both her father and mother’s side of the family.  Oscar Pereira, macho and handsome, is a reporter in the Mumbai edition of Newstimes, India’s largest newspaper. He comes from a family of staunch Christians. Delhi-based Amrita joins Newstimes as a trainee in Mumbai, as part of her one-year training programme. Busy with chasing front page stories, Oscar barely notices Amrita. Then when she has just twenty days left to return to Delhi, she is assigned to accompany Oscar to report on the Ganapati immersion at Chowpatty beach. But, both pay little attention to the event, becaus...

Nice Men Finish Last by Pravesh Vir Siddhu My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb- Bad ones get into the pants, whereas the good ones get friend-zoned.Bad ones have a blast and the good ones suffer.Bad boys take it all, while Nice Men Finish Last.Nandu pays an unfair price for being nice; he is dumped by his girlfriend.Depressed by the brutal break-up, he follows in the footsteps of his womanizer friend Sattu, who firmly believes that nothing good ever happens to a nice man.Duly brainwashed to shed his lovelorn avatar, along with the skin of the nice man, Nandu gets a character reboot. Things change rapidly, as he uses lies and all the unfair means to score girls. It works wonders for him till he realizes how powerful karma is. That makes him come out of this transitional filthy state, choosing to become a nice man again.That's when he falls in love with Tanishq – a beautiful dentistry student.Will he be able to win her heart being a nice man or do nice men really always fi...

The Colours of Passion: Unravelling Dark Secrets behind the Limelight by Sourabh Mukherjee My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - Within days of her fairy-tale wedding with Manav Chauhan, Hiya Sen, the reigning queen of Tollywood, is brutally raped and murdered. As ACP Agni Mitra investigates into the high-profile murder, he meets Neha Awasthi, with whom Manav broke his engagement to marry Hiya, Neha’s father Deepak Awasthi, who was eyeing business benefits through the alliance, Mayank Kapoor, an alcoholic model and Rituja Bose, the diva who had reigned over Tollywood over the past decade. When two more murders connected with the case make headlines, it’s time for Agni to find answers to perplexing questions and unveil shocking truths. The Colours of Passion breezes through Kolkata’s glamorous world of industrialists, movie stars, models and fashion designers laced with drug addiction and illicit liaisons, with a heart-wrenching tragedy at its core.  My views -...