Nepali books and author recommendation
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
Happy international mother language day everyone. So my mother language is Nepali. While I am not a linguist some facts that I know about the Nepali language is as follows: Nepali owes its origin to the language Khas Kura which was spoken by the war tribes “Khas” who lived in Eastern Uttarakhand and Western Nepal. Like most languages,  Nepali has been influenced by different dialects like Sanskrit, Tibetan etc. Thus, today it has a proximity to many other Indo Aryan languages like Pahari dialect.It gained popularity as the common language among the Nepali diaspora after Bhanubhakta Achary ..read more
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Have we been reading self help books the wrong way?
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
Whenever I interact with my fellow book lovers and friends about non fiction books the thread of self help book and its effectiveness is discussed on. Baring a few who swear by them a majority of us including me, tend to have quite a skeptical opinion regarding them. Often we say that fiction is actually more effective in impacting our life. While I have never been on extreme ends of opinions regarding self-help books and read them, their effectiveness was something I was not very sure about. Recently I met a colleague at work whom I often saw reading books. I was elated to see this and immedi ..read more
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Book Review: Educated by Tara Westover
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
  Genre: Nonfiction (Memoir) Publisher: Penguin Random House Format: E book About the book: The book is a memoir of Tara Westover who grew up in an orthodox Mormon family on Buck Peak, Idaho. Tara Westover has a Ph. D. from Cambridge, while some may wonder that yes this is praiseworthy but what is the novelty in it? The fact is Tara never attended school and while she was home schooled, the education she got at home involved only on Mormon saints and religious beliefs and no actual education. How then did Tara get the Gates scholarship and a Ph. D. from one the most coveted universities o ..read more
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Book Review: Job be Damned
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
Author: Rishi Piparaiya Pages: 252 Format: Paperback Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Non-Fiction (Business and Mangement) About the book: Positioned as a career guide the books deals with the premise of how we all are mediocre employees and how we can be the best average employee. It offers an overview of what corporate life can be right from the time you participate in the group discussion to get that job, to the time when maybe you are being fired from the same job. The author provides you with some unique ideas and methods to deal with all the boring as well as challenging activities aroun ..read more
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Book Review: Who Owns that Song?
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
The past is past (Sendrathini meelaathu moodare by Subramania Bharati translated by M.L.Thangappa) The past is past, you fools! It never comes back. Why cling to its vestiges. And pine for the dead memories Living in endless hankerings And fretting yourself to death? Let bygones be gone. Feel intensely. That you are fresh born This very day. Eat and drink and be merry Have a song at heart All your ills Will Wither away.   Author: A.R.Venkatachalapathy Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover Publisher: Juggernaut Genre: Non-Fiction About the book: Subramania Bharati is considered to be the stalwart ..read more
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Author spotlight: Robert Seethaler
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
“How many farewells can a person bear, he thought. Perhaps more than we think. Perhaps not even one. Nothing but farewells wherever we stay, wherever we go; we ought to be told this.”- Robert Seethaler (The Tobacconist)  I discovered Robert Seethaler through Instagram. One of my friend and amazing bookstagrammer Paulami posted his books on her feed. While I am not a cover buyer something about the books enchanted me. Next, I knew I was searching for this author on Goodreads. It was then that I discovered his novel A whole life and when I saw that this book was compared to the likes ..read more
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Book Review: Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
It’s easy to pass judgments, say things are wrong. Undoing those wrongs requires contemplation and a search for the cause that is manifesting this wrong.    Author: Diane Coffey, Dean Spears Pages: 271 Format: Paperback Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Non-Fiction About the book: India has the highest rate of open defecation in the world. Open defecation often results in life-threatening diseases, infant mortality and these problems are further compounded in India due to the high population density. As people live in close proximity it increases the chance of getting sick f ..read more
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How to Read More Classics?
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say”- Italo Calvino “A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive”- Alfred Kazin Mark Twain once said, “A classic is a book that everybody praises but no one has read”. Many time while having book-related discussions with fellow book lovers I often hear many saying how they want to read classics but they are just unable to do so. Some say its the language due to which they seem to not like it while some say that the plot does not intrigue. I ..read more
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Book Review: The Tutor of History
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
“And then he entered middle age and lost his job, and suffered, somehow a cataclysm of mind”- Manjushree Thapa, The tutor of history “People weren’t all meat and blood. At the core everyone was a spirit, untouched by gross violations-Manjushree Thapa, The tutor of history A kaleidoscope of history and life’s.  Author: Manjushree Thapa Pages: 469 Format: Paperback Publisher: Aleph Genre: Fiction About the book: The book takes place during the late 1990’s in Nepal.  The constitutional democracy is new in Nepal and the elected government has collapsed. Amidst all these fresh elec ..read more
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Non Fiction November 2017 Wrap Up
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by booksteaandmore
3y ago
“The word ‘creative’ refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To put it another way, creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible”- Lee Gutkind So as a part of Non-Fiction November 2017, I read 5 books. The books involved a mix of biography, history, essays, management, society and culture, and science. I really enjoyed reading all these books and November was a great re ..read more
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