Scavenging from a ghost !

On healthline.com, albinism is defined as a rare group of genetic disorders that cause the skin, hair, or eyes to have little or no color. 
In parts of Africa giving birth to a child with little or no skin colour is as good as a death sentence for the little one: for here 'Albinos are called Ghosts'.

People look on them with a mix of abhorance and dread. They are considered bad luck to the community yet ironically body parts of an albino are considered 'magical'. So they are hunted down and hacked up for these magical properties that parts of their body impart to brews and potions cooked up by the 'witch doctor'.

Came across this amazing documentary done by Al Jazeera on the perils the albinos in Tanzania face on a daily basis.
" If this be what the skies see, then let it weep, let it weep."

For the link click on : The Spell Of The Albino

God Is A Gamer by Ravi Subramanium

God is a Gamer 

by 

Ravi Subramanium 

The Blurb

Aditya runs a gaming company that is struggling to break even. A banker slips off a highrise building, plunging to her death. The finance minister has made some promises that he is finding hard to keep. The LTTE has unleashed terror in America that sends the FBI on a wild goose chase, bringing them to Mumbai.


Enter Varun, parttime drug dealer and fulltime genius. He turns around the gaming company before disaster strikes. Meanwhile, the investigators plunge headlong into

the shady world of bitcoins and the Dark Net, websites that only exist for illegal transactions—drugs, sex and money. God Is a Gamer culminates in a stunning climax where money means nothing, assassination is taught by the ancient Greeks, and nothing is as it seems.

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Meet the Author

Described as the ‘John Grisham of banking’, by the Wall Street Journal, Ravi Subramanian, an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, is the author of five bestselling commercial novels—If God was a Banker (2007), Devil in Pinstripes (2009), The Incredible Banker (2011), The Bankster (2012) and Bankerupt (2013)—based on financial crime. His latest book God is a Gamer, releases on September 12th.

Having been a banker himself, he has a unique insight into the industry he writes about and a flair for spinning intricate plots that keep readers on the edge of their seats

His debut novel, If God was a Banker, won the 2008 Golden Quill Readers’ Choice Award and, more recently, The Incredible Banker won the 2011 Economist-Crossword Book Award in the ‘Popular’ category. He won the Crossword book award for The BANKSTER in 2012.

Ravi lives in Mumbai with his Biotechnologist turned banker wife, Dharini and his fourteen year old daughter Anusha.

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10 in the TOP 100...way to go Indireads!

13'th of Dec...A GOOD DAY FOR INDIREADS.
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10 authors from the Indireads stable on Amazon India's Top 100 bestseller list / Indian writing category.

At :-

15. A Scandalous Proposition by MM George.
16. Love will Find a Way by Parul Tyagi
25. Only a Dream by Jazz Singh.
27.Rapid Fall by Adiana Ray
42. Against All Odds by Jazz Singh.
47. The Perfect Groom by Sumeetha Manikandan.
55. Girl from Fatehpur by Sarita Verma.
56. Done With Men by Shuchi Singh Kalra.
62. Double Jeopardy by Sundari Venkatraman.
96. A Newlywed's Adventures in Married Land by Shweta Ganesh Kumar.

Congratulations ladies!

It is an honour to be with you all.

Christmas has come a bit early...SMILE!

It was nice to get sent this by my publisher 'Indireads'.

I am going to have a goooood weekend!!!

Move over Ms Rowling, Zoe Sugg is here

WOW!

Over 78,000 copies of 'Girl Online' sold in its first week.

The highest first week sales of a debut author and the 'neterazzi' have nothing but good to say about her first book.

Way to go Zoe....or is it Zoella?

http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/news/celebrity/2014/11/26/zoella-zoe-sugg-book-girl-online-bestseller

Review of 'Playing with Fire' by Devika Fernando

        Felicia is a study in contrasts; on the face of it she is a quiet, studious, fastidious, bordering on the dowdy librarian who leads a solitary, secluded life, deliberately cutting herself away from social contacts preferring to spend her time taking long walks on her own.  On these walks she lets another self out. She walks alone but she dresses differently. Vibrant and sexy. She is enlivened and impulsive going where her feet take her. For Felicia has something burning inside her that is as desperate to get out, as frantic as she is to try and keep it in and control it.


       Cool, calm collected Joshua…in contrast has it all in place. He comes into her life ostensibly to try and help her and guide her. However will the strong carnal attraction that threatens to engulf them be their downfall? Is he really what he says he is?

       This is the second book that I have read of Ms Fernando and kudos to her for making this so different from ‘When I see your Face’. If I hadn’t known it, I wouldn’t have even said it is the same author. It is rare for an author to move so well between such disparate themes.

  Which brings me to the part that I was under the impression that ‘Playing with Fire’ was a paranormal romance and there is that, but it is also so much more.  In fact I found more of paranormal drama then romance in the book. For me the book was all about…..the angst of a young girl, it was her confusion on being different,  it was her supposed apathy in the face of rejection, it was about an outsider looking in who is scared and yet in awe of her rare ability. It was about the journey of Felicia and what a well etched one it was.

       Joshua on the other hand I found rather superficial. He came and he went and he didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Most of the feeling and emotions all came through the character of Felicia and maybe that is why I didn’t find the romance element so strong. It just seemed very one sided.

      However I am not here to nitpick on genres. It was a good story and I enjoyed it: the best part being…it is the first of a series. Can’t wait for the next one.

Scorched by his Fire.

Review of ‘Scorched by his Fire’ by Reet Singh.

‘Dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn’t’, is the position Detective Tanay Devkumar finds himself in when he sets out to teach Mita Ramphul a lesson for her supposed indiscretions with his brother-in-law, Samrat.  Haughty to the point of being arrogant, he is not ready to listen to any of her remonstrations of innocence. Even as he is working on his own agenda of keeping Samrat and Mita apart, he cannot but acknowledge the intense attraction she holds for him.

Samrat is Mita’s oldest and dearest friend and ‘just that and nothing else’. Beautiful and feisty she is absolutely indignant at Tanay’s attitude towards her and is not ready to go down without a fight.

The attraction between them is palpable, heady and intense and thank God for an author who doesn’t get her characters to get all coy and evasive about it. She aptly portrays Tanay as this decisive, meticulous go-getter and then she brings into relief the havoc Mita is causing in his life by the way his ‘grand plan’ can be thrown into absolute disarray by a single glance from her. Her family is warm friendly inviting and the descriptions of them and the island are marvelously sketched.

What I would have liked is a bit more of Samrat as he was the whole reason they met in the first place. Just one or two scenes to show the undercurrents between the three of them would have been entertaining and added support to the storyline. Besides, that sub-plot that revolved around Mita ended quite lamely in the end.

On the whole the book was a fast, smooth read that I thoroughly enjoyed: mainly due to it being interesting with well defined characters and above all the flow of the plot was very good.