Book Review - From Where I See by Ajay Yadav

Blurb-

Ajay meets his childhood friend Shruti on a social networking site. He finds her struggling with intrapersonal, interpersonal, inter – social and inter – religious conflicts. Eventually the conflicts killed her. Police could solve the case but will it prevent hundreds of Shrutis from getting killed? How long will we aim ‘who’ killed, more important is to find out ‘what’ killed. Till we don’t address this issue many Shrutis will keep on getting killed. We need to cure the disease not only the symptoms.

This book is an effort of the author to find a root cause and probable remedies of these conflicts, exploration of hundreds of pertinent questions like ‘why in one religion it becomes so easy to get volunteers to blow themselves up and others for the sake of religion? Does the religion divide or unite? Have the immature or wrong interpretations of females emancipation led to 13 times divorce rates in last 5 years?’

It’s not only a book; it’s the path to a revolution, it’s a journey towards a Utopian world. If you are open minded, have courage to accept truth and have a desire to change the world; then be a part of the change. Let’s take our first step to build road to this Utopian dream.

About the story-

The story has been dictated from Ajay’s side and it revolves around him. From his childhood to his adulthood – the story tells his perception on various topics, like – women emancipation, religion, history, etc. The story has some links with Ajay’s childhood friend Shruti, who is eventually found dead.

Writing and Narration-

The language of the story is easy but the editing is very poor. The book is full of grammatical and punctuation errors. The narration style is also not very different. The language was simple. The dialogues seem to be mere Google facts.

Title and cover-                            

The title of the book justifies the story because it is all about from where the author sees. The story only has his perception on various topics. However, the cover of the book is not much catchy and relevant to the story.

My verdict-

This book could have been more successful had the author would have written it as a non – fiction. The book does not have much relevance to the fiction story present on the blurb. The chapters are unnecessary long. Some of the topics are worth reading but other topics don’t fit in the place. There are some topics that keep readers hooked while at some others it becomes a bit boring.

Ratings – 2.5/5

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