Thursday, 27 June 2013

74th Blog - “The Kite Runner" By Khaled Hosseini


The Kite Runner” is the first novel by Mr. Khaled published in year 2003 by River head books. Since the book was released in year 2003. I can say It was now a long time when I completed this book.

   Since this was the first book of Author, besides the polished work he done in this book is par excellence. I can say In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political disturbance – in this case, Afghanistan – while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional victories vibrate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. This book is mostly revolving around the social causes of Afghanistan and the war that is in this country daily-schedule. For a good reader One of favorite things in literature is learning. If S(he) learn from a book, S(he) consider it valuable. Bite-sized foreign languages lessons will reinforce a book's merit and this author surly taught something about the history, language, and geography of Afghanistan.

It is a haunting and sorrowful story of the friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices and their lives.

A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic.
A novel set mostly in Afghanistan. The introverted and insecure afghan narrator, Amir, grows up in Afghanistan in the closing years of the monarchy and the first years of the short-lived republic. His best and most faithful friend, Hassan, is the son of a servant. Amir feels he betrays Hassan by not coming to his aid when Hassan is set on by bullies and furthermore forces Hassan and his father Ali to leave his father´s service. Amir´s relatively privileged life in Kabul comes to an end when the communist regime comes to power and his extrovert father, Baba emigrates with him to the U.S. There Amir meets his future afghan wife and marries her. Amir's father dies in the U.S. and Amir receives a letter from his father´s most trusted business partner and, for a time, Amir's surrogate father, which makes Amir return, alone, to a Taliban dominated Afghanistan in search of the truth about himself and his family, and finally, a sort of redemption.

A movie with same name is released in year, 2007 and was highly rewarded across world-wide.

 





 
 Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in thirty-eight countries. In 2007, It was followed by “A Thousand Splendid Suns”

 

The Kite Runner is not a romance, but it is a love story. A love story between fathers and sons, and those we call brothers- of the heart, if not blood. Their story touches on the complexities of familial love and accurately shows that, at times, we can love and hate those we feel the closest too.

One of highly recommended book for Literature Lover.


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Dhitendra
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73rd Blog - "Love does not walk away, People Do"


Someone once said, love does not walk away, people do. I wants to add one more thing, and they take love with them. It is like taking it out of an old box, folding it carefully, packing into a bag and taking it away from you. And you are left with nothing but pain, memories and a great feeling of a loss. A loss of something big. Something important. Something meaningful. Once it is gone, nothing else matters. The world is not the same anymore. You are not the same anymore.

And you find yourself thinking more, Retrospecting more and Wondering more.

And months will go before finally you will be able to look back and realize how much time you have wasted just sitting there, sorting out the pieces of your heart according to the various degrees of pain you feel.

And months will go before finally you will be able to let go and you finally give another someone a chance. But it will be months later. And for now, here you are, stuck in the past, wishing it was the present.

Months will go before you realize quite a number of things. You will learn that people always turn out how they promised they wouldn’t. You will learn that forever does not really last forever and that feelings have their expiration date. You will learn that people lie. You will learn that people leave. You will learn that some things are just not meant to be.

But most of all you will learn that memories fade. You will sit there thinking about time spent and promises made. You will remember all the happy smiles and all the cheerful moments. You will let the joys of the past put you into illusion of love and warmth. You will feel the presence of your loved one when you close your eyes, but when you reach for them, you will feel them slipping away. You will feel your memories fade.

And you will keep wondering how come that something so strong made you this weak. It will make you confused and lost. Lost to the world. Lost to yourself. You will take time to get over it. You will take time to adjust to a new reality. And then a moment comes when you start to pretend that everything is alright. Because people expect you to be. And because when the whole world thinks that you are fine, sometimes you forget for a while that you are not.

And you will learn new things again. You will learn that people mistake your strength for ability to hide the pain deep inside. You will learn that no matter how much you wish they could be, things will never be the same. And you will learn that no matter how good you are, it does not guarantee a happily-ever-after.

But it all does not matter. It all will not matter. You will wake up every day and keep on walking. No matter how many pieces your heart consists now of, you will hold them all together, as a whole.

And you will keep on walking. 
And even if it is damn painful to let go, even if it is the toughest thing in the world not to cry when it is the only thing you actually want to do, even then you still keep on walking.

Even when you know the past can’t become the present and surely can’t turn into the future, you still keep on walking.


Because you will also learn that after every storm will always come the sun. Be it weeks, months or years (God forbid!) the sun will come. Maybe not the way you expected it to be, but most probably the way it is meant to be.
 
And you will keep on walking.




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Dhitendra
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72th Blog Post - Don't come in my life just for a Reason


"Dedicated to All Lovers"
Don't come in my life just for a Reason
Don't come in my life just for a Season

Only I know, why I want your warm embrace
The time when tears fall down on my face
Because, I feel safe when sleeping in your arms
And feeling impregnable from all world harms
Years and years have came and gone
Yet our Immortal Love has its gripped on
Touch me, love me and always be with me
The way we always are supposed to be
Only you can realize ever in my eyes
How much I hate the word goodbyes
One day I'll be back to feel your warm embrace
When no more tears will fall down on my face

Don't come in my life just for a Reason
Don't come in my life just for a Season

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Dhitendra
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Monday, 24 June 2013

71th Blog - "DO" - What you love to Do.



"DO" - What you love to DO – Everyone Knowing this, but how many did it?

"Success comes in a lot of ways, but it doesn't come with money and it doesn't come with fame. It comes from having a meaning in your life, doing what you love and being passionate about you do. That's having a life of success - When you have the ability to do what you love, love what you do and have the ability to impact the people. That's having a life of success. That's what having a life of meaning is". - Tim 





How you look you about your life, What is actually important for an individual and why that is so important to be. 




Is It important what other people think about you.??
Is It important that you have to look good for other people.
??
Is It important that, people think you’re a nice person.
??
Is It important to get other people approval on your ideas.
??

If your answer for all the question is “Yes”, then you are probably wrong and you are
surviving in a RAT-RACE Life, it might be a time to make change in You.
Why....?
Why? It is a very good question?

Because it’s important that you can live with the Freedom of being Yourself, no matter what other people think, no matter how other people judge, no matter what and how other people feel about it. Is it hard? Yes! It’s hard to start changing Yourself and live without the approval or opinion of others, as we are so used to live that way and our environment tells us to live that way.  

Is it good for you to live that way?

No, its not. As it’s much more important for you to be happy with whatever you’re doing or whatever you like to do. Or even whatever you like to wear as clothes or hairstyles. Because if you think about it, when you have an idea and you ask someone or several people about their opinion probably most of the time you get only negative response. Will you still carry on with your idea and develop it? Most of the people will say No, not for now. So, did it really make you happy when you called of your idea or plan? You’ll probably regret later, maybe years later, that you never did it or didn’t carry on with it. And that’s why it’s important that we start to live in of our-self, with our own ideas and plans, what we like and what we do or what we want to do, no matter what other people say or think about it!

Believe me, For many years it was very important what other people, or even your family would say or think about your ideas or your way of living. Years later when you made the change to not listen anymore to other people’s opinions or judgments and just do what you wanted to do and how you wanted to live your life, it made you so much happier!

Is it still always easy for you?

No, it’s not always easy, but when you hold on to your believes, to your ideas and just move on with it, it finally makes you realize that you're happy for moving on with it, otherwise you'd have missed out on a lot.

The funny thing is also, when “they” see and realize that you do your own thing even though they told you to do different. after a while, they just accept. As they can’t “touch” or “hit” you anymore and, most important, not “control” you anymore. Because that’s what it really is. When you let other people decide what you do or how to live your life. They are in control of Your Life, not You! And that’s not the way how it should be. You have the right on your own Life, how to live it, what to do, what to wear, how to look like etc. And if people really Love you, then they will Love you for who you really are .

Don’t change yourself because others like to see you that way, as it’s not you. So, go out and live your Own Life!

Because - It is always better to live your own life imperfectly then to imitate someone else perfectly. -- Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert.

And remember to Live in the Now, Let don't go in the Past and don’t worry about the Future.



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Dhitendra
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70th Blog – "IDENTITY" by Milan Kundera

IDENTITY” by Milan Kundera is one of the most fascinating book I ever read some five to six year ago. Suggested by one of my best friend, He suggested me this book because, at that time he had been just return from France after completing his Masters. In France, one of his colleague suggested him to read this book and also suggested to keep reserve your time while reading. At that very moment he was not conscious why his friend recommended to read this book with a proper concentration and sacred heart. Besides after completion he has all the answers and need not to ask that big question “Why”?


Before going forward to describe and let know what this book about is, let me ask you a question: who are you?


Me?” I hear and say, “Well I’m such and such, I’m this many years old, my likes include a, b, c.” Yes, that’s all well and good. I’m tremendously happy that I now know what I enjoy and how long I has been alive and what collection of syllables my parents decided to award me with my birth. But,


Let me ask you again the same question: who are you?


In reality, very few of us could answer. As demonstrated above, we can reel of list after list of facts about ourselves, we can say what we’re “like” or describe our “personality traits”. but when it comes to saying exactly who we are, many find themselves dumbfounded. It seems simple enough – of course you know yourself, you know your mind, you know where you’re from. You and you alone are the protector of your dreams, desires, hopes and fears.


I used to get rather frustrated when someone asked me who I was and then questioned my response. Listen, I felt like saying, I think I know me a bit better than you do. That was, however, before I read a book by the Franco-Czech novelist, Milan Kundera, called Identity, one of the most powerful book that I ever read, can say infinitely powerful.


There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples – indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else "losing sight" of the loved one.

But, what I want to talk about is this – “IDENTITY” - A love story, an excellently written love story of two lovers, Chantal and Jean-Marc. It follows two lovers and the occurrence of a catastrophic, yet superbly implicit, event. This event, needless to say, sets of a chain of subtle and intricate incidents. Two lovers sharing intimate moments, hopes, dreams until doubt comes in their life. “Sometimes”, writes Kundera – Perhaps only for an instant – we fail to recognize a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own”. I was gripped from page one. But, this is not a book plug. All I will say is this: this is a book of major consequence, powerful and so well-crafted; the reader has to readjust their perspective of reality. If you haven’t read it – do read it. One of the messages of this novel is that, in order to love, you need to be certain that you know who the other person is. Once you start to doubt your lover's identity, love is crumbled. In this novel, when love starts to crumble, the lovers encounter their own secret fears. For Chantal, this means being naked, and for Jean-Marc, it means becoming a beggar. The desperation of their own fears drive them back to the safety of their relationship.


A brilliant, moving look at people and relationships. A book that holds a mirror up to us so that we question the nature of human identity, how we may come to define ourselves through others and through our partners. A short cognitive journey in which the main characters continuously sway between reality and dream. A heart-breaking book yet a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a complex journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside and what the mind creates in its own solitude.


Milan Kundera is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and forgetting, and the Joke. He writes in both Czech and French.


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Dhitendra 
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Saturday, 22 June 2013

69th Blog - “EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert” Pt. 2


 "A Summary"


          Author started her journey of one year after having a failed marriage and initiating a divorce, while she was unhappy in marriage and often spent the night sleeping or crying on her bathroom floor. The author finds it well to start her journey from Italy (Roam) or “Say it like you eat it” or “Thirty-six tales about the pursuit of pleasure”. After a failed relation with the person she loves, she does not want to fall in love again. In Italy she tried very hard to keep all relation just as a friend and most of the time she devoted to eat different cushions of food, almost in every street of Rome. She meets Giovanni and his twin brother and falls in love with Giovanni, but conquered herself to be not to fall in love again, even in the case when she has to leave this country in next four month. She meets a lady, an owner of Pasta restaurant, where she spent most of her time, first by traveling from hotel to restaurant, eat and go back to Hotel. Her some most important learning in Italy was - first “The most beautiful man are in Italy and the most beautiful woman are in France”, second one is “When you are learning something new, keep patience and be polite” and the third and important one is to “search for the word belongs to her life”.

          Author's quest of peace takes her at the devoted land of God, Monk and Temples, where she came in search of her own “Peace of Mind”. “INDIA” or “Congratulations to meet you” or “Thirty-six tales about the pursuit of devotion. Her plain lands in Mumbai (India) around 01:30 AM and later a journey of hours takes her out of the city to Ashram (The name of Ashram, and the name of Guru not mentioned in book). Here in India she gone through the learning process of all Yoga, listening morning chants, but she was not happy to attend more than one hour long mediation classes and hates this part of day the most and always tries to escape this one. In Ashram, she meets with her Guru, Mr. Richard (the entertainer all time to her), an African fat lady, a typical Young Indian teen of Seventeen, and A plumber who was also a writer like her and he's the person who gave a Paper of Instructions to Gilbert for being “Free” from her own soul cage and depression.
 
          Afterward, while writing an article on yoga vacations in Indonesia, Gilbert met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her, one dayshe would come back and study with him. So after spending four months in Italy and Indonesia respectively, she came back to Indonesia as announced by the medicine men in her last meeting with him. “Indonesia” - “Even in my underpants I feel different” or “Thirty-six tales about the pursuit of balance”. Initially the old man was not able to recognize her, who she was and when he meets with her. After a discussion lastly he was able to accept her presence. He gives all the learning to her in a very lucid manner by asking her to keep and continue all her learning she learns in Italy and India. In Indonesia she meets with Hotel boy, who helped her to find the medicine man house and all necessary plan from arranging a Bicycle to extend her Visa for next four months. She meets with a different kind of medicine woman who was also divorced and lives a life from moving one place to another. Gilbert arranged to collect a sufficient amount to purchase a permanent home for medicine woman. She meets with a person, with whom she finally falls in love as declared by the old medicine man.

          Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author, whose book “Eat, Pray, Love” remains in the New York times best selling for more than 200 weeks. At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night sleeping on her bathroom floor. After separating from her husband and initiating a divorce, which he contested, she embarked on a rebound relationship which continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone. This voyage of self-discovery, it turns out, was a competition, at whose heart is a need to win. Gilbert refers once or twice in her book to a childhood in which she was driven to do well and achieve, and her failure to reconcile the forced fruit of female ambition with the realities of woman's destiny merely further embroiders the space during the two.

One of the good book to read, and from the perspective of woman, its Indeed a worth book to keep in shelf.

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68th Blog - “EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert” - Pt 1

68th Blog - “EAT PRAY LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert”
 

Every book that we read, always gives us something new to acquire every-time and we can say all the books in this world are a worth to read. It all depends upon the reader's view how S(he) aspects a book or what quest is searching for. Some, like Love story of all type, some like spiritual ones that enlighten the reader's forever, some of us loves to read every good book either by his or her own desire or when suggested by encircled group but this all depends upon contrary type of reader's group. Besides, books are named as humans best friends and I believe this as true, because books always guide us for a good and in right direction but whenever you pick a book to read, It is very necessary to make sure, the book has all the content you are searching for. Searching for a great book and reading is an artful activity. Next time when picks a book, remember for this. I am also not has too many skills to search for proficient books but somehow I try to manage my weak part by asking here and there. :-)

For any writer it feels every time great to write. The problem with this skill is that, sometime the Idea and story come on a very odd time and it is worse in the case when you do not have a Pen and Diary to write down at that very moment. On the same day I'm writing about another book “Eat, Pray, Love” written by an American Author “Elizabeth Gilbert”

EAT, PRAY, LOVE” - The best part, I like about this book is cover page of its first edition, where the word “EAT” designed with favorite cuisine of Italy “Pasta” and the word itself symbolizes about the voracious feeder nature in Italy and their eating capability of almost all kind of food, the next word “PRAY” is designed with a garland of one hundred eight lit and defines the ancient learning of India, hermitage life of monk, in best word can say it defines the Yogi culture of India. The last word “LOVE” is designed with flowers (Bali is famous for greenery part, across the world) and the word simply represents the passion of Love and physical emotion. The other foremost portion of this book is a line that to write on cover page “One woman's search for everything in Across Italy, India and Indonesia." And frankly I am saying this book is a worth read for anyone, it takes you on a journey of search of woman or can say of supreme search of the single word “LOVE." The three words correspond to the book's three sections. These in turn refer to a highly systematized year of her life, in which she lived consecutively in three countries – Italy, India and Indonesia – to fulfill that title approximately on demand. In Italy she eats, in India she lives in an ashram, in Indonesia she finds physical passion.

When I started to read this book first time, the only first thought brushed in my mind was “Why all the country name in this book starts with word “I”. There are many more names in this world starts with “I”, but why Author chooses to roam at those places and Is she thinks of finding her desires only in the depth of these countries. But the word “I” remains and plays a viral role throughout the book and it is a worth to roam in Italy, India and Indonesia. The traditional Japa Mala is strung with 108 beads so the author better though to divide book in 108 parts, consisting and devoting 36 parts to each country. According to eastern philosophers the word 108 is held to be most auspicious., a perfect three-digit multiple of three, components adding up to nine which is three threes' and three, of course is the number representing a supreme balance.

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