Expect a medium-length slow paced read that traverses the journey of the author’s life. Expect a book that offers some deep insights into the practicalities and realities of everyday life. Expect a book that will inspire you to be a better version of yourself. In the author’s trials and tribulations, success, and joys, you will find a striking resemblance to your own life.
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Are you looking for some good Indian Biographies to read? bookGeeks has one of the largest collection of reviews of Indian Biographies & Memoirs written by many different personalities from various fields like cinema, sports, politics, humanities, scientists and other celebrities. A biography, or simply bio, or a memoir, is a detailed description of a person’s life.
All our reviews are professionally done and the methodology we follow is logical but simple. We divide the reviews of memoirs into 4 categories:
1. Candidness: Has the author written on all aspects of his/her life – good/bad?
2. Content: Is the content relevant to the present generation of readers?
3. The Writing Style: The readability and language flow.
4. The Entertainment Quotient: Overall enjoyability of the book.
Sangita, an Indian-Canadian author and filmmaker, through her investigations, uncovers the story and lives of temple elephants. While talking about Asian elephants in general, Sangita details how elephants are harassed even beyond temples. But the primary focus of the book is temple elephants.
One would be wrong to assume that the book is just about Landour and Bond’s life in Landour. It is not, for it has much more to offer. It is about his day-to-day life, and also about his love for nature, his long walks to the hills, and his interactions with the locals and with others of his own kind (writers). It tells of his rendezvous with people, some charming, some not so welcome.
This is a memoir of Samra’s survival through domestic violence. She was married off at 17 on the promise that she can pursue her higher studies in Canada at renowned universities. Excellent in academics and sports, she agreed to the marriage with the hope of a better education. Pregnant soon after, she realized that her family only wanted a caretaker for the kids.
Retirement or Service Menopause as addressed by the author, the term which means the time when one departs the workforce they were engaged with. It represents the end of something, right? But here the author turned the very symbolism of this word and grabbed it as an inspiration for starting the making of this book.
Bad Boy Bloggers is a book that talks about technology disruptors who have taken the world by storm and have achieved what many others can only dream of. It is an inspiring read because it urges you to move ahead in life.
The book is a collection of various musings, rants, opinions, and articles that the author shares on her personal blog. Though, the author writes voraciously, in Momsie Popsie diary we see a collection of the author’s most popular blog posts.
Princess is the story of Sultana and every other woman in the Saudi royal society whose life is perpetually controlled and managed by the men of her family.
The book itself is written in understandable and beautiful language. The inclusion of text from the real letters make the read more personal and wholesome.
“Calcuttascape: Musings of a Globetrotter” is a book for those who enjoy simple nonfiction writing about everything under the sun – travel, business, society, customer service, award functions, literature, and much more.
“तीन हज़ार टाँके” में सुधा जी के जीवनानुभव और गहन अनुभूति के दर्शन होते हैं। इस पुस्तक में उन्होंने अपने जीवन से जुड़ी ग्यारह ऐसी घटनाओं का वर्णन किया है, जो मनुष्य को निराशा के भँवर से निकालकर आगे बढ़ने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करती हैं।
More often than not books give us life lessons that prove to be way more effective than classroom sessions. This is especially true in the case of memoirs and biographies. Hamari Gyano is one such book that gives us helpful insights into the world of law and order and how it is designed to reap lucrative dividends from the very people that it is meant to protect.
Issa Rae has a take on almost everything under the sun and her takes are not just unusual but also quite comical. While, the book isn’t the laughing-out-loud variety, there is surely some good old (often self-deprecating) humour in those two hundred odd pages.
Anuj Tikku’s Yes Sir I Killed My Dad is the brutally honest story of Anuj’s rise and fall in Bollywood, his struggles and his successes, his achievements and his mistakes and finally his involuntary involvement in a murder mystery that shocked the entire nation.
Myth of the Entrepreneur is a book that gives us some serious points to reflect on while influencing our thought process for the greater good. Written in a crisp and a no-nonsense manner, the book is as interesting as it is informative.
Ritika Madaan’s From Dusk to Dawn is a book in which she narrates to us the story of a child abuse survivor, Daniel Thomas. Expect a book that is a rather short read (less than 100 pages). Also, expect a book that is written in a rather simple way but makes up for it with a story that is both gripping and moving.
A River in Darkness is the memoir of Masaji Ishikawa who is one of the very few lucky people to have escaped the hell hole that is North Korea. I would definitely recommend this book to my readers especially those who love memoirs, who enjoy political reads and are interested in non-fiction.
A staunch believer in the miracles of prayer and God, Krishnamoorthi presents his autobiography from his birth to 2018 in this book – 75 Years: Reflections of my Life and the World around Me. Apart from being a researcher and able administrator, he was also a man of many talents.