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Loneliness

First things first. Loneliness isn't a curse. At par times, people across the globe, have experienced loneliness in one or the other way. Be it willingly or not. Being alone is a part of life. The more you run away from it, the more it scares you. So the remedy you ask - accept it with open hands. With a strong presence of social media everywhere, being lonely scares the hell out of people. To avoid loneliness, people thrive on it. Do everything possible to grab the spotlight and be the talk of the town. There's an unnecessary urge to stay connected. Always. People simply can't digest the food, without liking a 9GAG post, or sharing a selfie.   Being alone gives time to explore yourself. It softly applies the much needed brake and slows you down momentarily. Slowing down is equally necessary as speeding is to win the race. And some time alone, gives just that. It connects you with the physical world. It makes you realize a bunch of stuff which you probably woul...

Inferno

Another Rober Langdon thriller. Not as interesting as A&D and TDVC. Dan Brown tries hard to convience his audience that human race is at the brink of extinction due to overpopulation. For a moment, if you consider it and continue reading, even then it isn't that intriguing. Firstly, it is difficult to grasp that an air borne virus has affected entire human race in just a week. Possible. If you drop, tons of lysate on every country via a B-2. Secondly, why would an organization go to such an extent of faking a gun shot, just to persuade a proffessor to help them aquire a canister which was aquired by Dr. Sinskey, and which was any how to be delivered to the same person eventually after 2 days. (Somehow Indians are bad at long sentences. Pardon me for that. But you gotta appreciate my effort) In my opinion, Digital Fortress & Deception Point were better than this. I'd love to read all his titles again except Inferno. He seemed a bit desperate to engage people in Ro...