The storyboard artists of movies are the unsung heroes of films although they are the first to give a vision to a screenplay. They, also referred as product artists or concept artists, translate the words of the screenplay on the…
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Incisive Biography of Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi, the incumbent prime minister of India, has emerged as the most popular leader of post-independent India, whose popularity across the country seems to surpass former prime ministers, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, who had served…
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: The Nilgiri Library, 1859
Ooty, the Nilgiris District: The Nilgiri Library, 1859 One of the colourful two-storeyed buildings in Ooty is The Nilgiri Library. The Victorian building in the Nilgiris district is daubed in terracotta-red and white. It has a high-ceilinged central reading room…
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Second Chance by Robert T. Kiyosaki
SECOND CHANCE: For Your Money, Your Life and Our World is written by Robert T. Kiyosaki, the author of the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad. Money is no longer money, then what is money? Knowledge is the new money….
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Ooty, the Nilgiris District: Ooty Preserved by Mary Patricia ‘Mollie’ Panter-Downs
One of the chroniclers of Ooty, the headquarters of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is Mary Patricia ‘Mollie’ Panter-Downes. She is the author of ‘Ooty Preserved: A Victorian Hill Station in India’ first published in…
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A Spy in China: Yamini Pustake Bhalerao’s Thriller
Yamini Pustake Bhalerao’s latest book is A Spy in China. It will be published in series like Charles Dickens’ novels were published in the nineteenth century – in a serial format book. Yamini Pustake Bhalerao is the author of popular…
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Natasha Tynes: They Called Me Wyatt
Natasha Tynes’ debut novel They Called Me Wyatt is a story about murdered Jordanian student Siwar Salaiha in the USA. She is murdered on her birthday in Maryland, but her consciousness survives. The consciousness (or soul?) finds refuge in a…
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Michel Houellebecq: Submission
Submission is the latest novel from the French author Michel Houellebecq. He is the author of Whatever, Atomised, Platform, Lanzarote, The Possibility of an Island, and The Map and the Territory. Submission is a satire and meditation on isolation, faith,…
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The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day The Remains of the Day is a novel about a butler. Stevens the butler is the narrator of the story: first person narrative. ‘IT SEEMS INCREASINGLY likely that I really will undertake the expedition that…
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THE THRIFT BOOK: Live well and spend less by India Knight
“Being thrifty makes you feel good about yourself, and you can’t put a price on that.” –India Knight In the introduction to the book, India Knight confesses that she had her ‘fair share of bailiffs over the years’ and she…
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