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Sajid

Mohan Vatsal (Dr. Sriram Lagoo) was a successful novelist, when he almost quit his famous life. His ardent fan Yashodhara inspires him to restart writing. He is now receded to a hill station and stays with Yashodhara who is now a Schizophrenic. The story revolved round some characters that Mohan Vatsal creates and his life in real. A very inspiring and descriptive way of character design and the depiction of role played by each character, by a novelist, are evident throughout the series.

Although I liked all the characters, I was disappointed by the role played by Shekhar Kapoor. Looking at his profile and the position he draws from his experience, I believe he would have better portrayed his role. He portrays role of an archeologist who hails from Mauritius and visits India, with his mother, to attend a seminar. He gets involved in an archeological find and during this phase he meets a hermit. He subsequently unearth that the hermit is no other then his father. This ends up in his self waging war with his ideas. The portrayal of these ideas could have been much better.

Developed under the banner of Mural Arts and directed by Vinay Dhumale, Upanyas is a series for people keeping interest in human interaction, human relationships, character design and writing.

It’s a story of fictional character Mary Jane. She was deputed as a manager for a department in a corporate house, First Guarantee, in Seattle. The department stands on third floor and is also termed as Toxic Energy Dump. She transforms this department into a success story after she visits very real Pike Place Fish Market across the street. The joyful, energetic and fun filled fish market helps her understand the basic ingredients of success. Rather then collapsing under the mounting pressure from her manager, she chooses to bring energy passion and commitment in the department by embracing easy to remember and effective to use, simple methods.

The story addresses today’s work issues that stand clear and tall in every organization: employee retention and burnout. Fish offers methods that are easy to grasp, instantly applicable and simple to practice. Since it’s a small book, it’s quite easy to read, taking only about an hour or so to get through the entire book. The story is engaging and moves quickly and thus keeps the reader’s attention. Highly recommended for people facing burnout in their current job.

The corollary to this fact is that we do have similar miscreants in our country. They have grown from small miscreants to big and fat politicians or like of them. They are beyond law and they know all the tricks to defend themselves.

So what happened to this rat I am baffled with? I myself a firm believer of non violence, will not touch the culprit and thus he will grow fat and complacent in days to come. Then the law of nature will prevail. His complacency will bring him within the claws of a big fat cat. That’s it….The End…

Ember from the Sun by Mark Canter covers the story of a Neanderthal girl called Ember. A scientist discovers a Neanderthal woman, frozen for almost twenty five thousand years, with intact tissues and blood filled vessels, in an Arctic cave. The frozen Neanderthal woman carried an embryo, awaiting birth.

The scientist plants this embryo from the frozen Neanderthal woman into a surrogate mother, who on birth names her Ember. Ember proves to be excellent in almost every field when compared to her age children. But her muscular body, her loneliness and a yearning to understand her existence keep pressing her.

Quite curious to understand her existence, she starts on a spellbound journey, where she meet her creator, the scientist, and new facts that give new meanings to her life. She reunites with her people, the golden-skinned people of her dreams, awaiting her to unleash and understand the reason for her existence.

It’s a novel that’s very descriptive and spell bounds the reader. It took me some time to understand the scientific terminology used in the novel, as I am not one with a logical bent of mind, but then the read was worth it. The characters in the novel look quite real and the description of the supernatural powers of Ember flares one’s imagination.

At the very end I remember a quote from Mark Twain: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” So I highly recommend you to read one.