Books and Musings

📗BOOK: A Little Before Sunset 📗AUTHOR: Suman Mukherjee 📗GENRE: Contemporary Romance Fiction  📝RATING: ⚡Storyline- 4/5 ⚡Literature- 4/5 📖PLOT:  Bhaskar Bhattacharya curses the day he came into the Earth as he was born in an emotionally toxic family who believed in arguing and vitiating the familial environment rather than create a happy space at home. It did not help Bhaskar's mental disposition when his first love dumped him but this incident changed the course of Bhaskar's trajectory towards a positive spike. The happenstance entry of Kavita Chatterjee in his life ushered in the much needed sunshine which was otherwise clouded with misery. However a deadly blow is waiting to eclipse the happiness that Bhaskar was finally starting to enjoying. ✒VERDICT  🥇Pros: 1) I am simply amazed at the quality of storyline that the author is capable of belting out one after the other. After thoroughly enjoying his works in thrillers like The N.G Code and The Lankan Link, I expect...

📗BOOK: Not Just A Night Watchman 📗AUTHOR: Vinod Rai, Ex-CAG 📗GENRE: Non-Fiction 📗THEME: Clean-Up of one of the richest Cricketing Organisations in the world, BCCI 📝RATING ⚡Content: 4.5/5 ⚡Literature- 4.5/5 🔥CONTENT: When the ex-Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India gets appointed by the Supreme Court of India to revamp and clean the infrastructure and compliance of the world's richest Cricketing organisations, BCCI, it is bound to create ripples and stir the hornet's nest. This book is the first hand account narrated by Vinod Rai himself regarding the travails, obstacles and the insubordination of BCCI top officials towards the Supreme Court directives. ✒VERDICT 🥇Pros: 1) I can only applaud the decisive and  factual manner with which Mr Vinod Rai has enumerated the context and what lead to his appointment as a part of Committee of Administrators to implement the rulings of Supreme in the governance of BCCI. 2) It was endearing to see the personal touch the autho...

📗BOOK: The N.G. Code 📗AUTHOR: Suman Mukherjee 📗GENRE: Suspense Thriller Fiction 📗THEME: Chief Minister's Assassination 📝RATING: ⚡Storyline- 4/5 ⚡Literature- 3.8/5 📖PLOT: Natle Gouse is a prized assassin who gets hired to eliminate high profile public figures. The job of assassinating the Chief Minister of Bihar was like any other task for him however the implementation and the aftermath changed his life forever. No, he didn't get caught! Something far more astonishing. IPS officer, Nirvaan Guha, is the star of his cadre and his series of successful operations has reached the halls of the Prime Minister. After 8 years, Nirvaan gets the task of finding the killer of the Chief Minister of Bihar but the revelation during the investigation turns his world upside down. ✒VERDICT  🥇Pros:  1) The structure of the plot is fantastical and unconventional. Many thriller stories follow a certain pattern in terms of storyline however in this case I can safely say that the plotline is ...