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“ What size glove, Madam?” Asked my surgical technician assistant.   "A 7.5 and a 7," I replied. He smirked and picked them up for me. He looked very eager to spit out something to me.   An operating theatre is always full of people at any given time. It's a large team that manages an operation theatre. There is the surgical team with the primary surgeon and the assistant surgeons; the nursing team, who assists the surgeons; the anaesthetist team; the technicians and the housekeeping team. And every now and then, medical and nursing students flood the OT and stand curiously to watch the surgery.   It's not like those shown in the daily soaps where you can enter the theatre and demand to treat your husband yourself. It's a highly sterile zone and is prohibited for anyone except the patient and the OT team.   "Mam, your gloves." The technician said, holding out the pair for me. The doubt in his eyes was still evident. We don't have a name for him yet. ...

BOOK NAME: Hyderabad ( Book 2 of the partition trilogy) AUHOR NAME: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar GENRE: Historical fiction  PUBLISHER: Harpercollins BOOK BUY LINK :  https://www.amazon.in/Hyderabad-Book-2-Partition-Trilogy/dp/9356291136/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1669108376&refinements=p_27%3AManreet+Sodhi+Someshwar&s=books&sr=1-1   Let me take the pleasure of introducing you to a book with its unique take on the partition. It is the tale of a once-happy family that became devastated and broken due to the cunning tactics played by its members. Some wanted to be even, but some just wanted to remain odd. Separation was inevitable, as they say. But some responsible adults fought for their unity and woefully failed at it. As destroyed as they were, the children had to decide to go with one of them or stay independent. Many books earlier have spoken about the other offspring who is still in turmoil, but this one is about the fascinating member of all. The cheerful and chirpy daught...

BOOK NAME: The Storyteller AUTHOR NAME: Dr. Hamna Labeeb (formerly published as Sana Rose) PUBLISHER: Bigfoot publications GENRE: Psychological Thriller Can you think of a book written by a female author that depicts domestic violence, childhood trauma and mental health problems to near perfection while maintaining a beautiful romance in the plot? A book that was loved by 100% of its readers? A book where no abuse was justified, mental trauma and suffering were not glorified and did not hero worship the main lead?  Yes, it is THE STORYTELLER by DR. HAMNA LABEEB (previously known as SANA ROSE). If you were thinking about any other book, that's precisely why we need more book lovers and bookstagrammers than PR teams. Like many other young women, Zara has PTSD because of her troubled childhood. But unlike others, we know her story here. Zara thinks she knows her mother, Lara, too well. She has a fluctuating relationship with her mother, who keeps reminding her of those events that cou...

BOOK NAME: Valli AUTHOR NAME: Sheela Tomy ( translated by Jayasree Kalathil) PUBLISHERS: Harperperennial BOOK BUY LINK:  https://www.amazon.in/Valli-Novel-SHORTLISTED-PRIZE-2022/dp/9356290156 GENRE: Ecofiction Travelling is learning, they say. We can all agree on quotes saying travelling leaves us speechless and turns us into storytellers. But imagine visiting a place without knowing its history and secrets. Have you ever wondered why some locals are always dismissive of tourists? Have we tried seeing through their eyes and thinking from their perspective on why there should be any friction at all? That is because some of them might be mourning the loss of their lands and people when we stand mesmerised by the majestic beauty of those enormousness hills covered in green carpets. When we are drowning in the charm of the foreign land, we would have never known the history of enslavement and encroachment hidden under that vastness. The waves that wash our feet and leave us dizzy on ou...

BOOK NAME: LIFE AND POLITICAL REALITY: TWO NOVELLAS AUTHOR NAME: SHAHIDUL ZAHIR (TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY V. RAMASWAMY AND SHAHROZA NAHRIN) GENRE: LITERARY FICTION PUBLISHER: HARPER PERENNIAL NUMBER OF PAGES: 192 BOOK BUY LINK: https://www.amazon.in/LIFE-POLITICAL-REALITY-Two-Novellas/dp/9354892302 TRIGGER WARNING: murder, rape, mutilation, war crimes   This book was my first ever one based on Bangladeshi literature. My love for translated fiction has only grown immensely after I finished this book. Books like these prove that translated works are the best to read diverse books. As the title suggests, the book consists of two novellas where political life is real life and vice versa.   BOOK SUMMARY: The first narrative,' Life and political reality, ' is based on Bangladesh's liberation war of 1971. The story goes back and forth in the timeline from 1971 to 1985 when the protagonist Abdul Mojid's sandal snaps one fine day when walking through the Nawabpur ro...