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Twilight In Delhi by Ahmed Ali/A Story of Downfall

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  Twilight in Delhi is the first novel in the history of subcontinent  to address various controversial themes such as identity crisis, fall of Mughal Empire, family values and position of women in the society. The setting of the novel is 1911 and it focuses on the social and political changes take place during that time. This is such a novel which can easily leads you to the roller-coaster of emotions. Twilight in Delhi is a beautiful novel artistically written by Ahmed Ali. This novel discusses explicitly the complex relationship among family members. The story of this novel talks about the disappearance of a purpose, isolation, deterioration and disintegration of a family. Twilight in Delhi is a novel that follows the story of Mir Nihal who is a Muslim of Sub-continent. In this novel, the aspect of colonization and Imperialism is also present. Mir Nihal is first shown as a powerful person and glorified just like Delhi but later his glory diminishes that symbolizes the d...

Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak/A Story of Life

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  Forty Rules of Love is a beautiful novel artistically written by Elif Shafak. This novel has inspired me in the most surprising way as it allowed my imagination to roam into different paths. It’s a journey of Love, a Love that finds you, when you are least expecting. Many people believed that Love is just a superficial thing, well, they have their own point of view but for me Love is a fact. A  Reality that everybody experiences because as human beings we experience love, we all do but in our different ways. Anna is the wife of a cheating husband and mother of two, a housewife, whose life is without love. She experiences love at the most unexpected time. She was working from dawn to dusk to please her family but the gulf is getting broader day by day among her and her family. But love finds her in her distress and claims to change her life. If you believe in love it will reach you someday, you just have to embrace yourself and reach out to that love. Love is an...

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes/ A Reading Experience

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  Me Before You by Jojo Moyes is such a novel that kept my crying for days. Many of you may have seen this in the form of movie. But for me, novels are more inspiring than movies because it leads your imagination to wander in various directions. In movies, our imagination is confined to what’s happening on the big screen, and that’s it. However, I am not here to talk about the differences between movies and novels. So,  as for as this novel is concerned, it kept in on the edge of my seat because I was anticipating something new all the time. The element of mystery was profoundly present about whether the “Will” will commit suicide or not. He is a quadriplegic, he got in an accident and he met the heroine who was hired for taking care of him. Louisa Clark, twenty-six years old, an ordinary girl, the change in her after meeting “Will” was immense.  First, their relationship started with a few fights (as usual), but then everything settled between them. She star...