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<strong>“Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” —<em>Boston Sunday Globe</em></strong><br />
“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbusting bestseller on the United States in the twenty-first century. How can Americans understand this rapidly changing international climate, and how might the nation continue to thrive in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering. Following on the success of his best-selling </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The Future of Freedom</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, Zakaria describes with equal prescience a world in which the United States will no longer dominate the global economy, orchestrate geopolitics, or overwhelm cultures. He sees the "rise of the rest"—the growth of countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia, and many others—as the great story of our time, and one that will reshape the world. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, largest-selling movies, and most advanced cell phones are all being built outside the United States. This economic growth is producing political confidence, national pride, and potentially international problems. How should the United States understand and thrive in this rapidly changing international climate? What does it mean to live in a truly global era? Zakaria answers these questions with his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination.</span>
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Mr. Zakaria has written a short primer (250+ pages of text) about where the world is today and the role he sees the United States playing in the future. His assessment, for the most part, is fair, balanced and nonpartisan. And though the title of his treatise--The Post-American World--sounds pessimistic, in reality Mr. Zakaria sees the glass half full.<br />
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The principal weakness of the book is a product of its brevity: the author paints in broad strokes, providing a sweeping assessment of the dynamic changes that have unfolded on the world scene over the past twenty-five years. This invariably results in some over-generalizations and assessments that are not sufficiently nuanced. For example, in responding to concerns about China's growing power and influence, he quotes several Chinese officials who repeatedly reassure the listener that, notwithstanding its recent advances, China still lags behind the United States in so many areas; consequently, it poses no real threat to America or its neighbors. Instead of taking these sentiments at face value, Mr. Zakaria should remember, as Margaret Macmillan astutely noted in her recent book, "Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World," that the Chinese are the past masters at using self-effacement to lure their adversaries into a state of complacency.<br />
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The greatest strengths of the book are explaining to the reader how much the world has changed over the past 25 years (did you know that China now exports more goods and services in a single day than it did in all of 1978?), while illuminating the course corrections the United States needs to make so that it can continue to influence the evolution of globalization. I was surprised to discover that the simple truths taught by Adam Smith have lifted more people above the poverty line in the last 25 years (400 million in China alone) than all the government assistance programs of all the countries in the world since the beginning of time. But I was dismayed to learn that the polices of free trade, liberal immigration, technological change and open government that are the source of this global revolution are no longer warmly received in the United States. Mr. Zakaria notes that in 2007 the Pew Global Attitudes Survey polled citizens in 47 countries for purposes of measuring the extent to which they have positive views about free trade and open markets. Guess where the U.S. came in? Dead last. Mr. Zakaria observes that in the five years the survey has been done, no country has seen as great a drop-off as the United States. It's as if, he says, that for the past sixty years we have extolled the virtues of free markets, immigration, technological change, competition, and democracy, and now that the rest of the world has finally decided to take our advice, "we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated." (p. 48).<br />
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If you want to look in the mirror and see the warts and disappointments, along with the beauty and promise, of America, read this book. You and our country will be better for it.</div>

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<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Book title: </strong><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Lunatic in my Head</span><br />
<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author: </strong><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Anjum Hasan</span><br />
<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Publisher: </strong><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Penguin Books</span><br />
<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Pages: </strong><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">290</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">There are no miracles in real life. It is in fact a lesson, or perhaps a gentle reminder that we dream, aspire, dare, even fail, and then simply go back to doing what we do best - carry on with a tad of lunacy in our heads. Anjum Hasan's Lunatic in my Head loosens those complex knots of life, between what we want, what we can, and what really happens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Three characters, strangers to each other, yet conjoined by a common string bring to lifeShillong, the city in which the novel is based. Rain drenched streets, dreamy youth smokingjoints, their enigmatic fascination with rock music, literature, the authoritative Khasis and their antagonism against Dkhars (non-Khasis), snacking on peppered boiled potatoes soaked in tamarind water, and the wanting to break-free attitude, all of it and more is part of a picturesque narration that makes the reader fall in love with Shillong. Having grown up and lived most of her life there, Anjum Hasan does a brilliant job in grasping the laid-back nerve of the city, something that people over the years have associated Shillong with.</span></span><br />
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<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Firdaus, Aman and Sophie</strong><br />
<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Firdaus Ansari teaches English literature at the university. Saddled with a thesis on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and a boyfriend with who she has no future, she lives a static existence. Her dream to move out of Shillong shattered with her parents' death many years ago. Despite the regret in her heart, Firdaus feels strangely connected to Shillong, and her longing for the city where she has lived all her life is inexplicable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Aman Moondy's fascination with Pink Floyd is caught in a conflict with a more realistic decision of clearing the Civil Services exam. Not to mention, his infatuation with the lovely Concordella who is preoccupied with the Church and its sermons, than him. Aman's failed attempts to revive the culture of music and art in the city by organising a 'Happening', eventually compels him to accept a plain and lacklustre future.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And eight-year-old Sophie Das prefers to slip into her world of imagination whenever she can. She lies at the drop of a hat, to others and to herself, making up stories in a tick. With the tension brewing at home between her mother who's expecting a second child and her uptight father who has given up his job as a professor, little Sophie likes to recoil from the unexciting reality and enter the mysterious world of Elsa and Jason, the lonely landlady and her son.</span></span><br />
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<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Always an outsider!</strong><br />
A common thread<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> that binds the protagonists is that all three of them, Firdaus, Aman and Sophie, are Dkhars. The word is used to describe anyone who is a non-Khasi and is condescending by all means. Several instances in the </span>book<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> are evocative of this discrimination. Sophie is scoffed at by </span>Khasi<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> girls of her age because the waitress refuses to serve her tea and snacks at the wedding. Aman, consciously aware of his </span>outsider<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> status, remains silent when the bully, Max abuses the boiled-potato seller. And Firdaus feels no less than an alien when Ibomcha, her boyfriend talks about taking her to </span>Manipur<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> to meet his mother. Yet, they are the ones who love Shillong for what it is.</span><br />
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<strong style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Chapters that define moods</strong><br />
<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The titles of the chapters are reflective of the characters' temperaments and are aptly named Wonder, Anger, Love, </span>Sadness<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">, Courage, Fear and so on. Interestingly, the circumstances that Firdaus, Aman and Sophie find themselves to be in are similar. In Disgust, Firdaus gets molested by her supervisor, Thakur. In the same chapter, Aman realises he has absolutely no Pink Floyd connection with the girl of his dreams, Concordella, and she is in fact in awe of Banshan, the boastful preacher. And Sophie gets pulled into a frivolous scene because of Jason who not only forces her to drink </span>beer<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> but also leaves her stranded in the middle of no where.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">For anyone who has lived in Shillong, the book is pleasantly reminiscent of the imagery that Anjum has managed to capture in her description of the city. And for those who haven't, the book makes for a perfect </span>monsoon<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> read along with a hot cup of coffee.</span>
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Lunatic in my Head by Anjum Hasan : Book Review

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There are many books around on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose">Subhas Bose</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Subhas_Chandra_Bose">death mystery</a>, but Anuj Dhar's India's Biggest Cover-up stands out from the rest, due to three reasons. One; it is new. The author weeds out fables from the mystery and delves deep into the subject. Two; his premises are backed by logic, findings by evidences, and writing by reason. He also presents an action plan to resolve the mystery, something which Shivraj Patil 'advisedly' omitted in his ATR (Action Taken Report) on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukherjee_Commission">Mukherjee Commission</a> report. Three; the very title of the book! Dhar takes the lid off the longstanding plane crash myth and in doing so, calls a spade a spade. He uncloaks some of the shoddy national leaders and officials who have been lying to the nation to lead us to believe that Bose was killed long back in a plane crash. Not surprisingly, the list includes India's first Prime Minister and even the would-be President! I suppose, that justifies the book title.<br />
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The book is a chronicle of different events in the mystery organised meaningfully into different chapters. Generally, such a work based on the past can be dreary but this one makes the reading as easy and engaging as it can be. Past and present day events are skilfully ran up together as in a thriller. To start with, Dhar flails the plane crash theory on its head by laying out evidences against it one after another. I don't think there would be too many punters for the plane crash story after reading the book.<br />
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Rather than being an author, Dhar assumes the role of a moderator, considering different views and opinions in great detail. He does not assent to the popular fabrications to drive home his point. All of the Bose mystery stories we have heard in the past were an admixture of facts and myths. But Dhar demonstrates the highest level of self-worth and truthfulness to his work by rebuffing 'manipulated proof' that doesn't appear cooked up on the first look. His sieve separates the believable part from the confusing claims, evident from his explanation - against popular belief - that the monk seen by Nehru's bier was not Bose.<br />
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Justice Mukherjee only recommended the government to probe the Russian connection of the mystery. But here is a man who has taken the trouble to follow Bose's trail and boy, hasn't he got fantastic results! Dhar even springs a surprise by showing the photograph of a high profile meeting of 1960s attended by a 'Bose look-alike', who is yet to be identified! Regarding the Bhagwanji angle, he presents the stories told by the baba disciples and tries to find matches from historical events. He displays great poise in dealing with beliefs about Bhagwanji, without going overboard.<br />
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Dhar is not just an author, but a researcher in true sense; and his work is not just a book, but a well compiled piece of history. Dhar also exposes a good mound of documents based on which he deduces his views, all logical and factual. Dhar is no Pied Piper; instead, he assists the readers to use their own common sense to draw conclusions. This is where the book excels. Now the most important question - how would I rate this book? I can say with confidence that in terms of 'completeness', only one thing would contain more details on the Bose mystery - the quarantined information lying in our government archives. In one's avidity for more information on the Bose mystery, India's Biggest Cover-up would remain 'the best vade mecum' on the subject. And I am sure every reader would thirstily long for the day the vaulted truth comes out in public domain.<br />
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Note: Anuj Dhar is a good friend of mine, but this review is not influenced by our friendship. What you just read is my personal opinion after going through the Kindle edition of the book. Afterall, even the plane crash theory supporters would switch sides once they get to see the evidences Anuj presents in the book.<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /><br /><b>Book Summary of India's Biggest Cover Up</b><br />India's biggest cover-up is an investigative insight into the Netaji mystery and its stranger than fiction subplots. Relying heavily on official records bulk of them still security classified in violation of democratic norms the book uncovers a systematic obstruction of justice by the Government of India. First for any book in India, the narrative has been augmented with the excerpts and images of still secret records. Archival material and information obtained under the freedom of information acts of India, the US and the UK has also been made use of. <br /><br /><b>About the Author</b><br />Anuj Dhar who has spent more than a decade in trying to make sense of the waxed issue, takes you through a maze of intrigues involving some of the biggest names before outlining measures to incontestably resolve what has been the longest-running among the controversies of modern India. And the most explosive too, you will now believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b>I’ve been writing book reviews for quite some years now and some of the most common questions I get asked by readers are:</b></i></span></div>
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Now although I’m not a know-it-all on writing the perfect book review, I do know quite a lot about <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">writing book reviews</strong>, having written over 100 of them to date. So I thought of putting together some major points that need to be followed while writing a book review. You might consider it a standard book review format and try to incorporate most of these points, if not all, while writing your own book review.</div>
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Seriously speaking, I could manure my garden with trash like this! I love to start off a book review format by writing about how I came about the book, something that just builds up as a story before I dive into all those details about a dead grandmother and her murderous cook.  Lay the groundwork first by telling people what you are going to review or talk about. Let them get a feel for the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flipkart.com/books?affid=gklinkzone" style="color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">book</a></strong> before they get to your opinions of it.</div>
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The main section in a book review format should ideally consist of two main sections – the description and the summary. The Summary should be a brief summary of the book and mind you, please keep the murderer out of it. All those spoilers that you’ve been dying to blurt out should be for your eyes only and are a strict no-no while writing a book review.</div>
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And then you need a description. What I like to do best is put a synopsis from the back of the book or a small chapter excerpt that of course clearly mentions that it’s from the book.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Step 3: Bring out that Critic in You!</strong></div>
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And then it’s time for the critical analysis. This is one of the main ingredients in a book review format and something that most people just don’t do. I mean what is the point of doing a book review when your analysis of the book is missing from it!</div>
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[pullquote]This is <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> review, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> personal account of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> experience with the book. Just because the book lies on the list of top 100 books of the century doesn’t mean <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</strong> should like it or lie about liking it. Also, because everyone is trashing the book doesn’t mean <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</strong> have to jump into the bandwagon[/pullquote]</div>
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This section should also talk about one’s learning’s from the book and whether it holds an important or interesting message that caught your attention. What I like to do is add in my personal book review format is about two paragraphs on what I liked best about the book and what I didn’t like.</div>
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And remember one very important point while writing a book review. This is <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> review, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> personal account of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">your</strong> experience with the book. Just because the book lies on the list of top 100 books of the century doesn’t mean <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</strong> should like it or lie about liking it. Also, because everyone is trashing the book doesn’t mean <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</strong> have to jump into the bandwagon. Notice how I’ve put <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you</strong> in bold in the above paragraph. That should be enough to convey my thoughts!</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Step 4: Final Verdict</strong></div>
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This is another key section of a good book review format. A lot of people don’t have the time to read your whole review so for all those skimmers out there; this is like a short bullet point summary that says Yes or No!</div>
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Well, there you have it! Some of the best book reviews that I’ve written and all laid out before you to analyze and criticize! Like I said earlier, I’m not the gold standard when it comes to writing book reviews so in case you have some better ideas as to the ideal book review format, don’t hesitate to comment below.</div>
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