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BLACK WARRANT 📌Sunetra Choudhury (currently the political editor at Hindustan Times) along with Sunil Gupta who has spent more than 3 decades in Tihar Jail as an officer of law, gives us a bitter glimpse of the heart wrenching reality behind Asia's largest prison. 📚The first chapter starts with Gupta's family being disappointed in his judgement of choosing a job at Tihar. As the story progresses, he meets Charles Sobhraj, the ''super IG" of the jail. Sitting there he witnessed prisoners being beaten in the chakkar as there were no surveillance cameras. There were no trained staffs. Instead Gupta learnt his job from two inmates. In return these inmates devised a system of disappearing the warrants of small time criminals in exchange of a small fee. Sobhraj was never locked up in a cell, no deadline for a lock-in or out, had complete liberty, dealt with his business of narcotics and liquor within the premises, had C class prisoners to cook, massage, wash his cl...

"𝐋𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝. 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲." 📌 𝐌𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐨- 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞- 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 📌About the book A classic tale of gothic horror. The history of the family in High place is filled with gory, murder, dark atmosphere, mystic settings, untold secrets, sensuality, fantasy, myths and legends captivating the readers instantly. Personally, I felt this book to be extremely engaging.The palace is in ruins which once took pride in it's grandeur, charm and eloquence.The reader gets a feeling right from the beginning that doesn't seem right yet can't decipher it completely. 📌Plot Noemi Tabaoda is a charismatic young lady who engages her mind with leisure and husband hunting. Soon she is given a dauntin...

  📖 TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN ~ John Green 📌 QOTD- Did you sympathise with Aza throughout the story? Do you think Daisy was writing about her? Which is your favourite book written by John Green? 📌This was my second read by John Green. The story is narrated by Aza Holmes who lives in Indianapolis, America and is an OCD sufferer. She intentionally opens up a crack in her finger to see if she is real. Her job is to seal it with bandage every single time, making her wonder whether she is already infected or not. Throughout the story she tries to get rid of her anxiety and feel normal like others. Daisy, her bestfriend on the other hand writes a fan fiction and has a motto in her life ' break hearts, not promises.' She and Daisy decides to investigate the sudden disappearance of a billionaire, Russell Pickett. The reward of this search could be of great help to enroll themselves in college. Aza knew his sons Davis and Noah who disclosed to them about all the property being g...