Book Review: Unleash That River by Dhaval Rathod

This book is recommended for people who wants to start off with reading, but with easy one.
Collection of 7 assorted  stories, unleash that river talks about modern day love.
Love at first sight, arrange marriage, giving love a second chance and henceforth.
Every story is different but ends with happily ever after theme.

The language , as i said before is very easy to understand.

In few stories ,the plot was not cleared. The charecters details were sketchy and created confusion at times.

There was a story  about  2 people sharing their journal .
While reading ,i felt the lines should have been in Italics or different font for readers to distinguish between  the two writing.

The stories were short and fast paced, light  and perfect to come out from reading slump.

BOOK REVIEW: IKIGAI By Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

IKIGAI — The Japanese Secret to a Long Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

My 2020 starts with reading a peaceful book in the midst of the chaos,happening in our country. A very good healthy living manual which should be given especially to people who are elderly, retired, who feel depressed, lonely, an prone to living unhealthy life after retirement.

It is often seen that after retirement people starts to age rapidly. It increases the risk of cardiovascular disease .It also effect the person mentally. It is often seen ,especially in India where retirement age is 60, that people  tends to have decision paralysis,loss of self trust, death anxiety, empty nest syndrome and henceforth.

The book contains 9 short chapters with valuable information regarding this concept. It shares a research on Japanese island Okinawa where there 24.5 inhabitants of age more than 100yrs  for every 1,00,000 people. The island practice the art of staying young even with the growing age.The book has  short chapters with valuable information on long healthy life.


What surprised me is the mention of Yoga  as a part of healthy living mantra, which we Indians ( many of us)  do not do , while the Japanese do.
Keeping oneself active in work, is the main point in this book after retirement for long healthy life.

It is seen Indians are more prone to health issue after retirement than any one in the world. How this can be overcome is by having ones own Ikigai. Keeping  oneself engage ,happy social life, stay away from too much stress, Eat healthy , no meat consumption , no alcohol,  , no smoking ,  green tea, exercise  and you are perfectly on the road to score 100.
The book has many more detail about the life of Japanese people and also flow of positivity in life in a very simplified form

An extreme delightful read

Rating: 4/5