Review: My Jiffies: Narration of Moments, Unadulterated and Unpackaged

My Jiffies: Narration of Moments, Unadulterated and Unpackaged by Priyanka Sharma Kaintura
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

[Note: I won this book in Goodreads giveaway and this is my honest review of the book]

This book is a collection of observations, short stories and poems. Author has used several names for those categories. There are seven categories in which the author has put forward her thoughts. And, towards the end the thoughts become smaller and become aphorisms and some sharp observations.

The book starts with a thought on partition of Indian subcontinent. And, how her grandmother would treat her with her childhood stories and other anecdotes. Then,there is one which explains why Lord Shiva so desirable.And when she talks about love she says - "love is the only sensation in the world,which enables us to live in the moment ".. well, may be true...

The book is full of such sensitive thoughts.
Some of them really made me think why I never observed those though those kept happening around me all the time.

I found the poems in the book ordinary barring couple of them - let me be a nameless face, Spaces.

Overall I liked this book and I rate 3/5.


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Review: The State of Wildlife in NorthEast India - 1995-2011

The State of Wildlife in NorthEast India - 1995-2011 by Pankaj Sekhsaria
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

[Note: I won this book in Goodreads giveaway and this is my honest review of the book]

This book is some sort of academic book , and it means boring :), and it talks about facts, news stories around the wild life in North East India.

The book has two major sections, first has the News paper reports about the protected areas and second section has some essays about some of the wild life areas in this region.

on positive side, The book is has interesting facts to ponder on for a wild life enthusiast. The essays are also informative.

The second part of the book which contains essays was more informative for me. The essays are about following -
-- media's obsession about Kaziranga national part due various reasons.
--Replenshing the Empty forests of Western Assam and it's challenges
-- About Snow leopards and how to protect them
-- The forests of Karbi Anglong.
-- Garo hills
-- How new hydro power project are going to impact this ecologically sensitive area. Around 168 hydro power projects are coming up in this area.
--How local communities are protecting these areas and their limitations.

On negative side, the book doesn't have photographs.

After a point the first section of the book becomes repetitive as they are mere copies from the news papers. Author has left a lot of data or information for the readers to comprehend. and I think that is too much to expect from an ordinary reader.

I didn't expect it to be on par with "National Geographic" but at the end I found it a bit outdated and boring.

If you like wildlife you can read it once and get the pulse of the wild life/forests in North East India.

I rate this book 2/5.


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