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Ashwin Sanghi and James Patterson team up for the first time to create 447 pages of awesome thriller novel, Private India. The book is yet another installment from the best selling Private series by James Patterson. This time around, the destination as the title suggests Private , the World’s largest investigative organization comes to India. Jack Morgan has hired Santosh Wagh as the head of Private India, who is a former RAW Agent. Santosh is assisted here by former CIA officer Nisha Gandhe, Dr. Mubeen a forensic expert and Hari the technology geek. The challenge before the team is a serial killer in Mumbai who is on a killing spree, using a yellow scarf as his special weapon. Who is this person? Why does he specially target women? What's the meaning of all the props he painstakingly displays around his victims? Above all, how are all the murders connected to each other? Most of all the challenges come from within; all team members are battling the war within, with ...

 The First installment of the Ramayana: The Game of Life, Rise of the Sun Prince is an enlightening tale by Shubha Vilas. One of the most revered religious texts, Ramayana is slowly losing its sheen amongst the new generations. It is this young population that this series of Ramayana aims to attract. The author does not go all heavy with the text, instead attempts to explain the text in simple easy to read language. Although Valmiki was a great sage and writer, his version, the original one seems to be little tough for the modern day readers, mostly because of the pathetic education we receive. So to read this book is an excellent way to get close to the ancient texts. And how can one not mention the pearls of wisdom, the informative footnotes which tell us so much about the story.On each page, very patiently the author explains the why and hows of the events which are unfolding in front of us. That is in a sense the beauty of Ramayana. The hidden meanings, the deep nuances, ...

Education is an essential component for a development of a human being. It ensures you knowledge, skills of a trade and makes one eligible for a job or a business. It is also linked with a person’s social status. However, the importance of education for girl child is often ignored. Girls are seen as a burden, fit for housework and daily kitchen chores. They are conditioned to think that there focus should be their husbands, children and family. Education would be useless for them in this scheme of things. They are blinded to opportunities that lay in getting educated. This problem is especially seen in rural parts of India, where illiteracy among women is very high.   The people seem to be oblivious to the importance of education for girl child . Either the girls are never sent to school, or are dropped off at very early stages of their education. Higher education is a huge no for them. Mainly because they are married off at a very young age. The concentration always has b...

It is indeed important to save girl child as today’s girl will be the mother of a child tomorrow. According to the last official census figures, there are only 933 women for 1000 men. In other way, we can say there when India entered new millennium, it has a deficit of 35 million women. We should stand against genocide that is eating society day by day. This article throws light on how girl child is discriminated not only in India but also world widely. We should take necessary steps to curb these practices and to save girl child . ·         Sex determination and sex selection It is true that foetal sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offense in India but its practice is widespread. Number of doctors carrying out private clinics uses ultrasound machines and other latest technologies to figure out the sex of an unborn child. People are ready to pay huge sum of money for this and do not even hesitated to even abort a girl child. ...

  The newborn baby girl must be given unique girl child name to distinguish her from others. It is true that there is great deal of excitement amongst family members, aunts-uncles, friends, grandparents and well-wishers who all sit together and argue and agree upon different girl child name to give best name to their newborn family member. It is true that we stumble upon as many names as there are stars in sky while searching for best girl child name. The girl’s child name depends upon family likings, trends of that present scenario and societal compulsions. Globalization has brought great mixing of cultures and thus orthodox society has now become liberal and accepting names from various corners of globe. Now-a-days, we can see names crossing boundaries of nations and making their home in unusual places. So if you are also looking some unique girl child name? Here is a list. Write them down on slips of paper and jumble it up in jar and finally take your pick. There are n...

Hey friends, I am working on a short story collection. Any ideas you can share for the stories? Kindly comment or mail. No specific theme, the collection is general in nature. Thank You Tushar PS: Thank you all for participating in giveaway for The Reluctant Scribbler :)

Gender discrimination is a major cause of the global order. The economies are galloping at very high speed, new inventions; new techniques are being developed each day. Yet, the society seems to be taking a step backwards, with its attitude towards girl child. This has been happening since centuries and it is high time, some concrete actions be taken to combat this situation. Preference for a male child is a deep rooted psychology in not only the developing countries of Asia and Africa but also developed countries in the America and Europe. This trend is both disturbing and shocking. People feel that if they have a son, the son would inherit the property and family name. He would then carry off their legacy further. A girl child however, will have to be married off to another household and is seen as a burden. A burden which has to be a one day shipped off to someone else’s home with lots of dowry. So, the monetary incentive is always at the side of the boy who would bring in dowry i...

It is sad to reveal that more than 10 million girls have been killed by their parents either before or after they were born in India. Not only this, number of girls that are fully vaccinated is 5% points lower than that of boys. If girl child is neglected in first few years of her survival, she has to come up with less food rights throughout her growing years. In this gloomy scenario surrounding girl child, very less percentage of girls attend schools. Approximately, 70% of girls between the age of 6 and 10 years attend school as compared to 76% among boys. In upper primary classes, the level of girls drops down to 40% and then much more in secondary levels. Since it is considered less important to educate and empower girl child, it is no big surprise that 54% of females remain illiterate as compared to 76% of males. In recent years, the government has developed free education program for single girl child in order to discourage multiple child birth. Government has also developed sch...

There is a famous saying, “educate a man, you educate one person, educate a woman, you educate a complete family” but how many of us really believes in it? It is been confirmed by reports that more than 50 percent of girls in India fail to enroll in school and those who do are likely to drop out by the age of 12. Lack of education and illiteracy in girls denies them to have good knowledge and skills needed for enhancing their status in society. Educating girl child helps in realizing her hidden potential, gives her freedom to think, act, question and judge world smartly and independently. Imparting education to girls makes them wise decision maker, teaches civic sense and help them to lead a respectful life. Educating girl child is never wastage of money or resources instead it is a better investment for parents as once girls get employed, they will think of their parents before boys who will think of their own family first. Educated girls have better knowledge about health and hygi...