Hrishikesh Pallod

         To complete your engineering here in Pune University, you need to write three reviews, one every year, for the first three years. So, here's my review on Game Of Thrones - Season 3.          As much as I love Game Of Thrones, I'm glad George R.R. Martin isn't involved in the making of other TV series like Dexter. This man could've killed off Dexter in the fourth season itself. Only Game of Thrones can possibly survive this slaughter of important characters. Despite all the supernatural stuff, warging and dragons, Game Of Thrones is actually more real than other TV series. And that's because GoT does not portray the good as immortal, which adds the element of realism. As children, we're forced to believe that the 'good' always overpowers the 'bad', which is far from truth. One thing we figure out after the end of this season is that, in the "Game of Thrones" everything, from Victory, Defeat to Iro...

     Being in an engineering college, I have regular assignments, vivas & tests apart from fever and headache. My new assignment is to write a ‘Book Review’ on something inspirational. Someone recommended me a book called ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ by Spencer Johnson, and I need to thank him for that. I’ve never been much into reading, so reading a book and writing a review didn’t really excite me. Books like ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ and ‘You can Win’ occupy some part of my book shelf, but I’ve always preferred to read a ‘Five Point Someone’.      But this book was an exception. ‘Cheese’ in this story is like a metaphor for something which we possess, or something which we desire for. It’s a story about Sniff and Scurry, the two mice, and two little men, Hem and Haw. Finding cheese is their only goal in life. But nothing is permanent. Life puts before us a number of twists, and it depends on us, whether to consider these twists to be ...