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BOOK NAME:  LADIES' TAILOR NAME OF THE AUTHOR: PRIYA HAJELA GENRE:  LITERARY AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION PUBLISHER:  HARPERCOLLINS INDIA BOOK BUY LINK :  Amazon India This was my next partition based fiction that I read for the month of august. This book was more about the after effects of partition which put people under immense emotional turbulence. The book beautifully paints a picture of a post partition India and Pakistan which led to the start of a communal and ethnic calamity on either sides of the border. Partition might mean various things to various people in politics but what was it like for a common man, a man who wanted to just run his business and make a living or a lady waiting for her husband and children to return home or for the elderly couple who built that beautiful house with all their life savings or for the kids who just wanted to be at school next day?! This book will precisely give you an insight about it. Gurudev is leaving to Delhi from Lahore with his wife

BOOK NAME:  THE MAP AND THE SCISSORS NAME OF THE AUTHOR:  AMIT MAJMUDAR GENRE:  LITERARY AND CONTEMPORARY FICTION PUBLISHER:   HARPERCOLLINS INDIA BOOK BUY LINK :  Amazon India For the love of historical fiction, this is my first ever book on partition!! I have read a lot about it in school but nothing out of syllabus. I am glad that this is my first ever book to the start of this genre. I honestly thought that it would be a sour, prejudiced take on the partition with two groups distinctly labelled as good and bad. But for the first time ever, it felt so good to be wrong. The book is about two resolute leaders, Gandhi and Jinnah who are strikingly similar in personalities but are also polar opposites. The book presents as a banter between Gandhi, the persistent, resilient and self reliant leader and the charismatic, confident and persuasive Jinnah. The former wants a peaceful undivided India free of British’s rule and the latter dreams of a divided nation with autonomous powers in the

Let me start my review with a favourite line from the book: “Stretch out your hand…. You will eventually find something to hold on to”.💜 Yasmin Sait’s Manan is a collection of short stories, rather biographies of 9 women who are in their sixties. They have shared a brief account of the clutches of their past and how they managed to put themselves first as they grew older. They chose to do what they couldn’t do in the past - someone joins a gym, someone decides to start a dancing academy, someone starts an NGO or a foundation and someone opens a public school and so on, all in their sixties! They finally decide to untie the bonds of suppression and obligation and go on to love themselves first. It’s a non fiction that is very light hearted and will not sound preachy or boring. PROS: It’s definitely one of the few non fiction Books that I enjoyed reading. It is a feel good, light hearted book which is not too preachy. It’s truly inspiring and heart warming at the same time. It’s a quic