The Rise of Reality TV...

The year 2013 is gone by. We have already witnessed the award season of Bollywood and we have witnessed the rise of singers in the gone by year. Ask any random chick about her favorite song from 2013 and she will flit between ‘Tum Hi Ho’ or ‘Sanwar Loon’; if you can decipher the hidden meaning then you have witnessed the rise of reality shows in India.

Arijit Singh the Filmfare recipient for the best male singer 2013 was once a reality TV show contestant. Monali Thakur the cute bubbly girl who is ready to make her debut in Bollywood and the recipient of best female singer Filmfare 2013 was once a contestant of Indian Idol. Sreeram Chandra the man with the soothing voice who sang the song ‘Shubhaanallah’ in the movie ‘Ye jawani Hai Diwani’ happens to be the winner of Indian Idol 5.

In recent past we have heard people bantering about ‘how fake these reality shows are’; we have even seen people cursing the creative team behind such shows, irrespective of the fame and employment they have awarded the contestants from the show with.

If you are a person with optimistic mind setup you are gonna agree with me, when I say that reality shows have changed the artistic world for betterment. We all have heard the quote ‘Every Artist Needs an Audience’ and with the advent of these innocuous reality shows this quote just got real. Every artist with a profound artiste irrespective of the town he comes from and undiluted by the creed he belongs to has received tantamount love and respect for his art.

If you are a person with an abominable mind setup then you will count onto the failures and trauma these reality shows have spread. There have been bad luck and people have faced criticism and depression but the primal reason behind those futile outcomes was the lack of creativity and the sheer absence of art of presentation.

In recent past India has seen an outburst in the field of reality television. Most of them are borrowed concepts and some of them are just the translated versions but till the time people are moving forward it is ok and as the quote goes ‘Rome was not built in a day’ like same change is not gonna come instantly, first people will copy, then experiment and finally one day they will innovate.

Till then Sit back, Relax and enjoy the Not-so original Reality Television.

Green Rock Store-Your Search for cool merchandise ends here!

Indian market is saturated with merchandise brands that sell Tees that are either too common or have become out of fashion! The need and the taste of the consumers are always dynamic and the brands or the brand owners must keep this dynamics in their minds. If you roam around the metro cities in India you will, most probably observe people wearing Tees with the same caption or designs. Apparently, the reason for this is that people are facing a huge lack of options and choices. The number of brands that sell Tees with ‘out of the box’ caption or designs are very few in number. Thus, the consumers are forced to buy the same humdrum sort of stuff again and again.

Green Rock store is one of those brands that have made an effort to eliminate the lack of choices for the end consumers. The young Indian youth has a huge fad about the TV series, animation, movies et al. that’s exactly the theme of the Green Rock store. The store aims at making cool Tees that are inspired by TV series or movies. That said, they don’t restrict themselves to merely tees but they make hoodies, posters and would soon venture into laptop skins, coasters etc… So, if you have an idea in your mind, you can always share the same with Green Rock store. The stuff of the cloth is worth a buy as well! After-all you want to preserve your style statement as well! Also, the brand is more than happy to take bulk orders. So, if you want your companions in college or may be in the company to have cool Tees or any other merchandise of that sort, contact Green Rock store without any delay whatsoever! Also, if you don’t have an idea for design or caption in mind, Green Rock store would always be there to suggest you.

So, the entire big bang theory fan here is your Big chance to buy a Tee that says a huge Bazinga to everyone! Also, the entire Breaking Bad fan, Green Rock has some really cool designs that will surely impress you. The entire How I Met Your Mother fan can also visit the store to buy stuff and can tell everyone How I Met Green Rock!

Green Rock Store already has demonstrated its ground level presence in this Comic Con event in New Delhi, many colleges in the Delhi region have already ordered their bulk stuff and the response so far has been really good. The huge crowd and all gung-ho response at the Comic Con festival has encouraged the brand to take things further from here. The Delhi bases store is all set to rock the market. Visit the Green Rock store today and order your stuff for an amazing and impressive experience.

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Love Vs Relationship...

Hey! Thank You for landing on My blog. This piece of suggestion on romance was written for the blog of Delhi Based Publishing House Half Baked Beans.
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The 14^th February is gone and with it the week of romance and love ends. Now you can go back to the older you. Ignore her, do not call her up, make her wait for you, rebuke her, call her a bitch and do whatever you want to do, because the Valentine week is over and nobody is gonna ask u ‘how your relationship is going? And what new surprise you has got planned for her?’

Don’t you think the times of romance are now gone by? Don’t you think now we live in an Era where Love is basically a need? Don’t you agree with me that you are not in Love, you are just in a Relationship?

It was easier for you to enamor her because she too was looking for Someone like you—make it a note you had list of qualities when you were looking for someone; while love always was and will be a serendipity—and hence one day when you guys were enjoying drinks over a football match in a sports bar Love happened.

The first look was basically a test to check whether she qualifies all the eligibility criteria or not, whether she has cute curves or not, whether she has a dimple or not and whether she is hot or not.

We have re-defined things and transformed Love into a Relationship. Yep! You are not in Love, you are just in a Relationship.
If you are considering her before Signing Up for companionship you are subconsciously making an inventory of terms and conditions. You are concentrating more on plus points and less on the negative ones. Once the agreement is signed by both of you. You acquire a right to cash on all the discount coupons your partner is providing you with. You will cover the first base then the second base, you will be taking your hands in all the places and one day you will realize it is all boring and this relationship has got nothing new to offer and baaam you will break up! Now you are single—a time to re-work on the demerits you have as a human—and you are again looking for someone to fall in love(relationship) with.

You will meet another chick at another bar; her cute breast will inspire you to take over, her modern intellect with a sexy demeanor will inspire many things inside you, and her round ass will just sweep the floor making you Fall in Love again. You will approach her with a grin on your face, she will turn around, look at you( a quick check) and congratulations you are in love(relationship) again.

The same old paradigm will be repeated, the first base, the second base, hands in all the weird places and then BREAK UP!!!
You know what went wrong? The inventory you made before signing up for a relationship—it had all the pros and no cons—with the girl you met an hour ago. Relationship is like a coin, it has two faces. Till the time heads is up you can enjoy all the so called features she has. O

nce the coin gets flipped you will realize how moody and irritating the person you are dating is! But then what to do? Leave her and find someone else?
Nope! Not again, don’t follow the same old paradigm of falling in love instead realize what Love is
? Help yourself become a better partner and then wait for the one who inspire you in the same way every other girl did, enamor her again, take her too to bed and your hands in all the cozy places and when every coupon she had is spent, wait look at her smile, if it inspires you equally spend your life with her; because love is not about the things your partner has got to serve you with love is about sticking together even when you have nothing.

Self Policing...

This post was written for the blog of Half Baked Beans--A Delhi based publishing house...
You can read more of my articles at- halfbakedvoices.blogspot.in

How many times a day we comment on the way a person prefers dressing. How much of time we spend every day judging others. How many times does our comment or judgment make things better? Do we even consider how sentimental our slander may be? Do we even try to decipher the genesis of the way in which one behaves?

 Will we ever change? Will we ever understand others?

No! Not until we are on the other side of the road.

Been on the other side of the road, we would have understood, how it feels to be one with no fortune, with no luck and with no happiness. Life has long ceased to be fair and to us life is good because we are lucky or in layman’s word because our parents have got money.

Money these days is an onerous thing with a cryptic meaning. Money brings to us everything-food, friends, relatives, happiness and love. Money without love is a waste and a love without money is embarrassing.

How we have turned into so hard shelled? Since, when we lost the hinterland values? What made us so stiff? Will we live like this all our life? Will this ever end?

The answer lies within you. The answer lies in Self-Policing.

Self-Policing is merely a term in English language which means-‘the process of keeping order or maintaining control within a community without accountability or reference to an external authority’, but in the situation we all are living in, the way we all have got succumbed in our shells, this term is no less than an anecdote.

We all need to get accused of being ignorant and get investigated for the damage we have made to us, others and to our planet. Yep, not just we humans, our thoughts with bad frequency damages the planet too; and with the speed we are judging people and declaring our opinions as gospel no doubt we will not need any nuclear weapon to annihilate our planet.

Self-policing can help us attain peace and can help us make this planet a better place to live. Every-time you think of someone of as creepy and weird just because they dress-up differently ask yourself ‘why will anyone deliberately like to be a laughter stock’. I am not suggesting you to develop a self-doubt, but I am requesting you to be generous and intellectual. A mind with intellect thinks over things and acts accordingly. A mind of animal with no intellect attacks; and not to forget we are human beings.

Self-policing is considered to be a part of yoga; where we tend to understand our short comings and overcome them with the help of Meditation and physical exercises. Yoga(ancient word for exercise) is the best way available to understand one self. When you start understanding yourself you start understanding the world.

We all small, big, gay, straight, black or white need to understand ourselves. We need to understand this world moves in a cycle. We need to understand we all are a part of that cycle and we need to understand the disruption in cycle may lead us back to the genesis of life which is assumed to be dark, very dark.

And as the famous poem from Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara goes…

“Dilon mein tum apni betabiyan leke chal rahe ho.
Toh zinda ho tum!
Nazar mein khwaabon ki bijliyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!
Hawa ke jhonkon ke jaise aazad rehna seekho
Tum ek dariya ke jaise, leharon mein behna seekho
Har ek lamhe se tum milo khole apni baahein
Har ek pal ek naya samaa dekhe ye nigaahe
Jo apni aankhon mein hairaniyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!
Dilon mein tum apni betabiyan leke chal rahe ho
Toh zinda ho tum!”

Do everything you want to do but make sure nobody is getting hurt; nobody suffers a loss in your gain and make sure you are making your planet a better place to live.

The One You Cannot Have- Review.

Book- The One You Cannot Have.

Author- Preeti Shenoy.

Publisher- Westland. Westlandbooks.in

Pages- 270.

Story Line- Aman Mathur a young, good looking man is all set to return to India after his professional stint in London. All set to return to India, accidentally he comes across the old memories hidden somewhere in the house as scrap. The memories send him back to the golden days where he met his dream girl Shruti who happens to be his classmate during the sabbatical. He is reminded of the four glorious years he spent with Shruti, enjoying and planning their future life together.

Shruti on the other hand is now merely a memory for him as she broke up and now is happily married to Rishabh for two long years. Shruti is content being married Rishabh, lately she is been making efforts for a successful marriage but the pressure from the in-laws and Rishabh himself for a child gives her chilly vibes. She plans to be working for some year and then involved with kids.

Amidst of these Rishabh comes across the hidden tale of Shruti and Aman. Things go haywire. Shruti tries everything to mend things between them but Rishabh is adamant with his stern behavior. He feels cheated and lied upon.

On the other, Aman lands in India and meets Anjali—who is a sweetheart. Anjali is a writer, working for a Magazine. Introduced to Aman by a common friend Dipika—epitome of hotness. Aman and Anjali gradually gets along and happens to fall in love. Meanwhile Dipika gets to hear the news and tries to disguise Anjali by accusing Aman of molesting her.

What happens next? What Shruti does to make her marriage work out? Will Anjali be able to believe Aman. Read the book to find out who is the One You Cannot Have and for whom.

Review- The fifth book of Preeti Sheenoy is as intense as you expect it to be. It is full Preeti Sheenoy type story.

·       Narration- It flits between the three characters Aman, Shruti and Anjali. The flitting narration helps the reader draw a proper imagination of the emotions and the plot.

·        Title- The One You Cannot Have. The title is fully compatible with the story and plot. When you read it you will realize how difficult it is to love The One You Cannot Have.

·       Pricing- the book is priced Rs.200/-. The sum of Rs.200/- is bit more for a romance fiction. Understanding the price factor most of the e-commerce websites have reduced it to a maximum of rs.150/-.

·       Flow- The story and the language has the requisite flow Preeti Sheenoy is known for. The story forwards at a good pace. The steamy flow keeps you glued with the story.

·       Reader’s Expectation- Going with the title a reader will expect a ride through the contemporary ways of ghastly changing relationship. The book serves the purpose and ends on a good note.

·       Characters- Characters in the book are vivid. The book gains extra points with the detail description of the characters.

·       Sale ability- The book is already listed on the HT bestseller list. Amazon India has already declared Preeti Shenoy as the Author of the month based on the sales of her latest book.

·       Ratings- The average rating of this romance fiction on Goodreads is 4.02.
Half Baked Bean rating of the book is 4 out of 5.

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Rebound Relationships.

You met her at a bar and were instantly enamored by her exquisite features; you made a move and got lucky. World looks magical to you, you find her so caring and understanding. She has an important influence in almost every decision you make. She is the one you have been looking for. You are having a happy life until her period arrives and she cries because of the acute pain in her stomach and her irrational behavior (influenced by mood swings) annoys you more than anything. You bring her chocolates and she feels better; wrapped up in your arm she sleeps tight; you look at her serene face and utter ‘She is the one I have always been looking for’. Life goes on; you celebrate every anniversary (including weekly and monthly ones) with loads of love and joy.

But with time you start realizing things are not falling in place and you need a change. A change- like what? A new sweater for the winters or a new job? No you need a new partner with whom you can discuss about your contemporary girlfriend. You need someone; in short you are looking for a Rebound Relationship.

A rebound relationship is one that occurs shortly after the break-up of a significant love relationship. If you are in a relationship but have distanced yourself emotionally from your relationship partner, you may begin a rebound relationship before you even leave the relationship you are in. If you move quickly from a long lasting relationship into another relationship then you are probably in a “rebound relationship."

Rebound Relationship is not infidelity, it is just one of those Choose the Best from option available to you.

Few Don’ts to be followed in a Rebound Relationship: -

·       You are not supposed to judge your new partner on the basis of the experience you had with your Ex.  It is human nature to hover over past and make present difficult to live. Relationship experts suggest ‘never compare your relationships’; comparing things may make it difficult for you to survive, you will keep flitting between present and past.

·       Focus on the positives of your past relationships; this boosts your confidence about yourself-it says ‘you are worthy’.

·       Treat the new partner just the way you expect yourself to be treated. Do not allow the ghost of past to harm your dream future.

Before going into a rebound relationship consider if it was clear your prospective reboundee was really into you long before you broke up, consider the possibility that s/he is only attracted to people who are emotionally unavailable (and thus will lose interest in you once you fall in love with him/her). S/he probably also has no regard for other people's feelings (namely your ex's) if s/he was hitting on you while you were involved with someone else. Would you really want to invest in a relationship with someone who overtly pursues relationships with men or women involved in committed relationships? If you don't think it would work out in the long-run, don't waste your time just because you feel lonely and someone is obviously interested.

Suicide-Surely Not An End!!!

Suicide a seven letter word which can bring an end to the exotic series of fun, love, respect and responsibility. Life to humans is not something that happened ‘ainvayi’, it’s a gift, gift of God and we as humans have no right to alter with it or to end it for our Loss or Gain.

You must have seen conferences and people speaking on public platform for the cure of AIDS and Cancer, but no one, absolutely no one ever spoke for/on Suicide, given Suicide is anonymous and you are the only one who can help. Before committing suicide just for once, stand, stop, wait and think ‘Is this it’ or ‘I should give life another chance’, because Life is a chance no one ever regains.

People write Suicidal notes, which according to law is the Evidence, but is nothing more than an Explained Excuse.

*Attachment- 29% of Suicides these days are committed because of failure in relationships. People either hang themselves from fan or take poison to bring an end to the series of extreme pleasure with few bitter experiences, just because they were unable to enamor an incompetent lover. Next time you decide to end your life just because someone doesn’t approve of your love, remember you are your best lover, if you can’t Love yourself, then nobody else will love you.

A strong person left by his first love will never sit back and repent, he will stand, challenge the world and will find someone more beautiful, deserving and will live happily ever after—(Paulo Coelho).

*Career- Manager’s Lad committed suicide as he was unable to cope up with his Parents expectation. No parent is so stiff that their child’s cry will not make them rethink or reconsider their expectation. Coming forward and asking your Parents for one more chance is way easier than leaving them to repent and cry on your corpse.

*Monitorial Loss- No loss is bigger than loss of Hope. Even if you have suffered an enormous loss in business doesn’t mean you have lost everything, you still have you and your strength and capabilities.
Remember—‘If you have made it large once, you can make it huge for 100 more times’.

The ones who are Raped, thinks it’s better to die and bring an end to a life of shame; Least they are aware of the fact—‘Committing suicide never eases the pain, it actually deepens the wounds’.
If they decide to fight, it is obvious hundreds will oppose and obstruct her but once her conscience is proved strong then thousands and may be millions of them will help her in her Endeav

or for Justice and Respect.

When you decide to die, you make yourself a criminal, you make your parent’s life, a life of guilt. They will always find themselves amputated because you were not merely a child but a part of their soul too.

Loss in business and in relationships are inevitable, you can’t convince the economist or someone beautiful either to plan according to you or to love you, but you can surely go through everything silently and come up as Strong and Beautiful, next everyone will praise and love you.

This world is omnibus and infiltrated, people will make promises with enthusiasm and break them silently. Love will come into your life and will mend your ways, beautiful people will enamor and destroy you.

What will take you towards Happiness is You, Strong You. Let you be the only controller of your life. However Exquisite and Desirable one may be don’t let them disrespect your dignity. Do fall in Love, take risk, Enjoy Success and taste failure but be an Optimist and Be Strong, because when you decide to hang yourself even Gravity fails.

Being Sixteen...

One beautiful morning when you wake up in your heavily cushioned bed you will have a sense of freedom and excitement. Now things like politics will start making sense to you. Things like gel and fancy clothes will become your priority because a world out there is waiting to judge and criticize you.

These days being sixteen is more about Tuition, Friendship and Relationships.

I remember-

I was writing my Maths board paper the day I turned Sixteen.  How was I? When I was Sixteen? A Nerd?? Not really but, Yeah! I was working hard to score a century in Maths board paper, however I fell prey to nervous nineties with a score of 92. It’s not that I was very good at studies or very meticulously I read my course, it was the easy CBSE pattern that helped me to score a decent percentage (It was 2009; grade system was yet to destroy the results and the value of CBSE Xth board).

Life was easy and normal when I was sixteen. I was a normal school going guy, whose biggest passion was  a hero bicycle (earned in legacy from elder brother) and a Nokia phone, UPA 2 was yet to produce world’s biggest scams, life as a boy was cool and as a teenager was exciting. At 16, your physical maturity is not something Juvenile, the hormones inside you, makes you trepid ate for more and more physical pleasure, everyone goes through this. What generally comes to our rescue at such age is Friends, friends are the one who will lent you, yours first porn CD and mind it your friends are the one who will decide what your morals will be. Age 16 is dangerous, we are neither mature nor Juvenile, we are actually confused  and to us everyone else seems Dumb and Overprotective.

Being Sixteen is fun; Parents start trusting your capabilities, you are allowed to go out for parties with friends.

Being Sixteen you will fall for the cutie from the first row or for the stern girl who sits beside you, reluctantly you will try to enamor her, if lucky, you will receive positive response and suddenly you will find your world going magical.
If unlucky, you will get a negative response, you will start hating her face, you will try to bring disrespect to her name and things will go wrong.

Parents-

At the Age of Sixteen-

They fervor a fear that you will be misguided by a wrong circle of Friend.
Your late night calls and chats will give them goose bumps, they have been through heart breaks too and they don’t want you to go through the trauma of love.  It’s as simple as that Parents are the one who breach regulations in our life, not for their Fun but for our Safety and Security, but at the age of 16 it is very difficult to Understand.

They obstruct us on every choice we make, they make us skeptical about our friends, they acknowledge our every good move and criticize every wrong move of ours, with this emancipated behavior of them, we start developing an innocuous hatred for our parents.

What we can or should do is- Go through all this, these things are inevitable, one day when you turn twenty or enough mature to understand your DAD, you will realize, Who was Right and Who was Wrong. You will realize, age sixteen was not merely about Love and Friendship but it was about trauma, Jealousy, Addiction, Failure and Lust.

When we are sixteen, we are like the immature egg, any external force can break us but the warmth of our Parents will mould us into chicken.

As a Tip- Take as much warmth/heat(read Facilities) form your parents and turn out to  be a Chicken, don’t let outer force like Love, Lust and Failure break you Before time.

We are so Clichéd...

This article was written for Half Baked Beans' blog and was published in my University's Monthly Newspaper too...

It was the pen-ultimate day of my school life, when I was summoned on the stage to give a Talk on School life. It was my Ted-X talk, but I was not there to speak about the paradigm that changed my life or to impart some techniques about enjoying school life to the juniors who stood there with sheer enthusiasm and primal expectation.

What I actually spoke that day was about the journey I had at the school and when I finished everyone did clap for me.
Today, after 3 long years when I look back to the D-day, I wish I would have been bit more specific about the choice of topic I made and I wish, I would have leveraged them with bit of more ‘gyan’ about life, but the irony is, I learned the things only when I came out of that school.

In school we were always coaxed to follow the clichéd pattern by teachers and by our dear parents, but when you grow up and join college you realize ‘I am so clichéd’, things like ‘out of box thinking’ will box you and your enthusiasm down leaving you alone to curse the way you lived your school life.

Remember there’s no gain in following the rules all your life and get rejected on the day of placements with a remark “We are looking for someone Unique”.

Things I wish I had known during school life: -

·       Do not Rush, Consider the options: - If I am back in school again and someone questions me about my plans; I’d say that my priority is to known what the options are.
All you need to do is discover things you like and once done with the research pursue it with full passion, because the famous quote by Steve Jobs goes like-
‘The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it’.

·       What you think and what you want are two different things: - When you pass out of your school and join college then you will feel ‘hot summer of your hometown is much soothing than the cold impassive whips of college’. Computer science engineering is not about installing windows and defragmenting unorganized files on the disk.

In school your Principal will manage things for you and after school your own Principles will take you everywhere.

Rearview-My Roadies Journey-Review.

Book- Rearview- My Roadies Journey.
Publisher- Rupa Publications.
Pages- 312.
Author- Raghu Ram.
Genre- Autobiography.

From the Jacket-

What is going on in the contestants mind? Does he admire me, respect me and hate me? Fear me? May be all of the above. I don’t understand it. I don’t understand the Roadies form that has F-k you Raghu, written all over it, I don’t understand the poster that was held up this year during the Chandigarh auditions that read, Baap toh baap hota hai. Raghu Rox, I see equal parts respect, equal parts loathing. Equal parts Raghu, equal parts the bully. There is a man tall, bald, muscular, intimidating who manages to induce terror and awe in all those who dare walk into his interrogation room. There was once a boy scrawny, weak, easily intimidated, voice unbroken at fifteen, who was bullied consistently through his childhood. This is the story of how that boy became the man he is today: part-time singer, song-writer and jammer, full-time producer, camera man and editor. Sherlock Holmes and Batman worshipper, staunch atheist with an innate fear of water and heights. This is the autobiography of the rudest man on Indian television. Raghu Ram, the original Roadie, split wide open.


Review-

If you have teens in your house or if you yourself are teen them you must have observed this Bald, spectacled man screaming on TV. Every weekend he used to come up with the most bizarre tasks and twists. He was or perhaps is the most hated mentor ever on Television. What is the reality behind his rude behavior? Is He like this in his real life too? Does he scream at his Crew and family members too?

The most hated face of Indian Television is now up with his autobiographical journey. Raghu Ram’s Rearview- My Roadies Journey. He is a lyricist, been a Cameraman and has acted as the Executive Producer at the Youth Channel of India—MTV. He’s been everything, an artist at MTV can dream off.

Roadies have been the longest Reality Series on Indian Television but as a viewer your Journey of Roadies is incomplete without this book.
Book starts with a scene where the voluptuous crowd is cheering Raghu! Raghu! And this bald, daring man seems to have a euphoric journey back to the timeline when he was just an Intern at TV18 and now the Executive Producer. He remembers how he worked weeks in that editing room. He remembers every night he spent editing those raw reels of an episode of MTV Bakra.

This book takes you on the journey of Roadies which started somewhere in 1998, when Raghu ram was just an intern at Tv18. The journey tells you about the Ups and Downs Raghu go through at Tv18 and how he gets rejected in an Interview at MTV when he returns later for a job.

The book explains Raghu, Roadies Raghu and Funny Raghu. From a thin, unfit child to the most hated personality on TV has taken almost everything from him his friends, family and his own self.

He regrets what he does at Auditions every year but he can’t help, it’s the contestants who are asking for it.

This book tells you about everything you need to do in order to build your dream from scratch; take no Shit from others and how to be the one you always wanted to be.

The tender and the sensitive narration of Raghu excites a reader makes him get goose bumps and leverages with raw experience. The task trial scenes are raw and real like Roadies and Raghu.

At the end, the book leaves you bit exhausted, disappointed because Roadies will never be the same and inspired to do things on your own terms.

Cover-

Cover of the book always helps a reader to choose a better book by providing a glance into the story even without turning the pages. The black cover with Raghu’s intimidating face portraying a scary look is just the way He and His story is. Given the book is an autobiography, the cover presents the exact essence of the story.

 Quality-

 Rupa is one of the leading publishing houses in the country. It’s the same publishing house which publishes the novels of Chetan Bhagat. They have always been keen and dedicated to quality service. Not disappointing this time too, they have maintained the proper quality of paper, editing and the formatting of the book.

Ratings-

You can rate Fictions but not somebody’s life. This book is an autobiography so No ratings.

The Change!

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It was 2004, when Congress came to power once again, sidelining the strong and courageous government of NDA, led by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The country subconsciously knew, Atal Ji ka time ho gya hai and at that moment they hardly saw Advani Ji as the next PM; hence Congress was voted to power. Congress emerged as a strong party in 2004 general elections under the shade of UPA-I. The big names like Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh did added loads of power to the parliament. The first half of the first financial year was good and productive, India did felt Incredible! With Lalu Prasad Yadav making railway achieve the required impediment, the stations were found cleaner and safer.

But, nothing lasts forever and Promises of Politicians are neither even meant to last. Things started turning clumsy, messy, irrational and finally futile. The government tasted failure at almost every front and the economy bared the ill effects of the wrong practices. Sudden increase in the number of Scams and the inflation in the price of LPG and other petroleum products did made the whole country squirm. The prices were rolling like the reel of a camera set to 32X speed.

People started questioning, protesting. The government did experience a setback when news like “Reliance Ke saath Alliance” hit the TV screen. By this time, people of India had decided and were ready to vote Congress out of power.

2009, general elections were held and astonishingly Congress (UPA-II) was voted to power with full majority.

There was a conflict between the different classes of People.

Well, that’s history now and the only logical explanation available for the astonishing result is Law of Attraction, while trying to vote congress out of power, the general public was constantly attracting Congress into their life again and again, as a result UPA-II formed a central government and changed India forever.

World’s biggest democracy experienced denial to speech, Short Messaging Service (SMS) was limited to 5 SMS per day during the August-September 2012. Later in December 2012, the capital city faced Closed Metro Routes, when they tried to reach India Gate to protest silently and draw candle march for the girl whose rape and murder case made its way to the Forbes List.

Not only this, there’s more; GDP went below 5%; India got banned from Olympics, Pakistan kept sending dead bodies of our soldiers and America kept coaxing our government for the amendments in foreign exchange policy(FDI is the price America drew from our Amputated and Spineless Government).

But by this time, the Aam Admi had woken up; actually the alarming situation was making sound and the Junta was feeling the intensity of vibrations. People slowly and gradually realized it was not the government who was wrong; it was their choice which was wrong.

Meanwhile, the bench of Supreme Court was seen super active; taking toll over almost every move of the incompetent government.

On the other hand an IAS was busy cleaning the roads of Delhi with a Jhadu (Broom) in his hand and a Chaiwala was busy motivating the youth of the Country.

With the Chaiwala and IAS getting popular on social network among the youth, it was the Shehjada who won the title of Epitome of Trolls.

#Present…

The tenure of UPA-II is coming to end; the AAP has already won 28 seats and is ready to play the role of responsible opposition. BJP has already beaten Congress by 4-0 in general state elections throughout the country.

Amidst all this, there’s a question which scares equally as much as it relieves.

Is it truly a new morning or just the wearing effect of the party Congress had over these 9 long years?

JAI HIND!!!