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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How ? Why? summary of the progress of human evolution ,migration, Cognitive Revolution and Agricultural Revolution(spoiler-the author doesn’t favour it), how currency and coinage developed, the creation and spread of religions, the arrival of imperialism andContinue reading “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari”

I have read a few of Paulo Coelho’s books, and loved them and I’m kind of familiar with the writing style But this book left me disappointed It has a bunch of useful thoughts and quotes but they are all scattered,let me elaborate , The author incoherently jumps from one idea to another with noContinue reading “Aleph”

You all have must heard about the Hela cells at some point in your science class,this is story of the woman behind the hela cells Her name was Henrietta Lacks.She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells taken without her knowledge in 1951,the cells later became one of the most important tools in medicine,Continue reading “The immortal life of Henrietta lacks”

this novel kept me stuck to it like anything,and after a long time I loved a book this much I’m kind of socially awkward like her but she is next level this girl has a strange sense of humour which I love,she keeps on saying everything is fine although everything else suggests that it’s not,sheContinue reading “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman”

Sequel to Kane and Able,novel about a young girl who was the daughter of a Polish immigrant who build his own American Deam in the form of the Baron hotels.Florentyna now runs hers fathers business and wants to be the first American female president. She is very honest and smart not only her buisness lifeContinue reading “The prodigal daughter”

This book I got many years before in some book fair, and my love for biographies has just towered ever since The beauty about biographies of such great people is that you get to know them as just people,their struggle with day to day life and their journey to greatness FYI: The man in theContinue reading “Birbal Sahni”

Continuing with our #bringbacktheclassics series I’ll be telling y’all about this book today,you may have already read it some school assignments or definitely heard about it, let me tell y’all some more interesting things The thing I love the most about this book is the writing style,Which was one of the most popular forms ofContinue reading “Sense and sensibilities”

#bringbacktheclassics series Today we are talking about a childhood friend Tom Sawyer, Tom lived in a town up along the Mississippi River,in the 1840s,in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where our legendary author Mark Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with hisContinue reading “Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”

How does Barkha Dutt deals with so much especially misogyny? I thought this is a memoir but rather, it is a look at India through Authors eyes and experiences, investigating some of the “fault lines”: gender, caste, religion and terrorism. Also rather than following a fixed timeline she jumps between big topics like Kargil war,Continue reading “The unquiet land-Barkha Dutt”

**NON-FICTION FEELS FICTITIOUS ** Call me a creep or blame it on me being a medical student but I love these true crime books and thinking about what must have been on this persons mind or what circumstances made them do this? This book in the picture has 13 stories about the ladies of GanglandContinue reading “Mafia queens of Mumbai”