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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Title is Untitled by Santosh Avvannavar, Kundan Srivastava, Raghunath Babu Are : A Review


BOOK TITLE: Title is Untitled
AUTHORS: Santosh Avvannavar, Kundan Srivastava, Raghunath Babu Are
EDITION: Ebook & Paperback
ISBN: 9789383701094
BOOK SUMMARY:
          Indian actor and director Kabir Sadanand offers advance praise for the work, “We must understand [rape victims] don’t need our sympathy, what they need is our commitment to stand by them. The initiative and courage to do the same as shown by the authors is inspirational.”
About the Book:
          Love.
          Lust.
          Desire.
          Rape.       
          Anger.
          Education.
          Profession. Maladies of life? 'Title is Untitled' helps us into a sneak peek at a unique combination of facts and fiction. Three authors join their heads to weave abook that would hold fact high along with fiction. You knew the statistics, but you didn't know the paths that lead to the situations we are facing these days. Coupled with adequate dose of humour, Title is Untitled will enhance, enrich and enlighten your knowledge. Come, join hands with us in spreading knowledge and awareness about issues that are plaguing our society now.
BOOK REVIEW:
          It is only usual that the first thing you notice about a book is its title. Based on just those few words, a seasoned reader’s mind starts conjuring up various scenarios as to what this book is all about. But no, this book doesn’t give you that chance. Because, after all, its ‘Title is Untitled’.
          The first line of note ominously, is ‘To look at things like we’ve never looked at before – we present a unique book of facts blended with fiction to spread more awareness in our society’. There are various ‘chapters’ that portray shades of human emotions. This is a simple story (book) of faith’ like is mentioned in the story ‘Azad Bharat – 1957’.
          When a story is going to describe in details the social effects of begging, and ‘The economics of begging in a metro’, you know you are in for a wild ride. A line that stands out (even if not grammatically correct, or appropriate, this is like a phrase you use to motivate yourself) amongst all the other dialogs is ‘Being Human is different from Human Being’

Adherence to summary – you know what to expect, and the book delivers.
Language – save a few obvious typos, there are no points of complaint
Story – stories about social causes, nice, carefully chosen titles, humorously written.
VERDICT : Make or Break. Either you like it or you don’t, but you definitely learn from it.
RATING: 4/5
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Santosh Avvannavar:
          Santosh started his career as a consultant and Soft Skills Trainer. After his college education from NITK, Surathkal, he worked as a researcher at University of Eindhoven, University of Twente, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was also the Placement President while working at IISC, Bangalore. He has over twenty-five publications of mostly research documents in national and international journals. He has also authored sixteen conference papers and regularly writes articles for a national and worldwide daily paper. He also works as an advisor for different organizations.
          He also dabbles in fiction writing and is the author of Adhuri Prem Kahaniya; Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a Superhero, Second Heart and Get a Job WITHOUT an Interview; Be A B.A.; Surrogate Author. He likes to devote his personal time in writing for a website, namely the Amrita Foundation for HRD (www.amritafoundation.wordpress.com). He has conducted seminars and training sessions for more than 40,000 people in India and abroad over the last seven years.
Kundan Srivastava:
          Kundan is an engineer by education, Founder of Be In Humanity Foundation, Social Activist, RTI Activist, Columnist, Universal Humanity Awarded (2013), Bihar Pithadhish Purushkaar Awarded (2012). He was born in Raxual, Bihar and is one of Youngest Social Activist from Bihar. Kundan is a Technical Graduate (B-Tech) from Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun and the Top Achievers announced by College Management. He is well known for his role in Social Activist working for humanity cause and crime against Women, RTI Activist and his efforts to bring and awareness the Right to Information (RTI) act. From July 2013, he is a Member of political party, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Raghunath Babu Are: B.E., M.Tech (IISc, Bangalore), Sr. Software Engg, over 5+ year of experience as a Software Engineer at Yahoo! and Microsoft India. An alumnus of IISc, Bangalore.

BOOK LINKS:
Kindle:
Rs. 145 for Kindle
Paperback:
Rs. 219 for Paperback.


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