Books in queue for the year 2015

I am always interested to read books of various genre. So here goes the list of books I read this year. Sequence here is not sequential.

1. Annihilation of caste - BR Ambedkar
2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
3. 1984- George Orwell
4. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
5. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
6. Lajja -Taslima Nasrin
7. How Sachin Destroyed my life - Vikram Sathaye
8. Zero to One  - Peter Thiel
9. Ramayana:The Game of Life-Book 2(Shattered Dreams)-Shubha Vilas
10. In Defence of Food - Michael Pollan
11. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 
12. The CheckList Menifesto -  Atul Gawande 
13. The BestSeller she wrote- Ravi Subramanian 
14. Ashad ka Ek Din - Mohan Rakesh  
15. Volga se Ganga - Rahul Sankrityayan  
16. Banaras Talkies- Satya Vyas  
17. Mrs FunnyBones - Twinkle Khanna 

Is Laundry a woman job

Woman & Laundry. It seems to be a normal combination. It’s not because both have the perfect relationship, its reason is that we are grown up to see this since our childhood. We have always asked our mom to do laundry favour for us. We never asked dad to clean our green shirt and our favourite jeans to wear it the next day. I agree, there are few men who do their laundry by themselves. But they wash their own clothes only and the family's clothes care should be taken by the woman in the home.

To clarify the fact that “we have not achieved the gender equality in this century for at least the laundry thing(though there are many things)". Search for images "woman washing clothes" . You will be bombard with n number of results. And now search for images of "man washing clothes". If you observe, there were more real life images in case of woman.  But in case of man, there are more pictures clicked for modeling or intentionally clicked to show.  

But when it comes to do the professional laundry men dominate. Similarly in the case of chef professionals. Why women do the laundry or more precisely why they are make to the laundry. From my opinion it is just of division of labour we made throughout our cultural progress. In the progress of society somehow men dominated and made women to do the household chores. When only men were earning money in the family, women became very much dependent on them. This reason made women more vulnerable to various household things. And laundry is one of them. A lot of damage is already done. Damage in the sense, it became more then a tradition and declared laundry as women's task without analyzing the current and past situations. Time is changing, so we have to think what we have to do and what not.Now washing machines are there to made it easier to do the laundry as well as good detergents too. Though washing clothes in washing machine also take effort.We women have to make men realize that it is not something that only we should take care, men also live in the same house so they have to play their part too.  

Some of the facts collected by a survey conducted by Ariel:-

Sometimes men just don't realize these things because they see it as a natural tradition as their mothers haven't asked them to do so. So the same men expects the same things from her wife regardless of her working status. We have to make them realize this thing to our husbands and our children too. If its tough for them to do the household chores after working whole day in office, same applies to a woman. For all the men who help their wives or mothers in household work, please share your experience and pleasure of sharing the work. This is the best way I can think we can break this traditional labeling. 

I am writing for #IsLaundryOnlyAWomansJob activity at BlogAdda.com in association with Ariel.

book review part -2 : God is a Gamer

God is a Gamer no one denies that. No one knows what will be his next move. This is what Ravi Subramanian tried to put and he did pretty well. While reading God is a Gamer you will be never able to guess what is going to happen next. That makes God is a Gamer fun and exciting to read.
If you have read my previous review you may have noticed that I am not a fan of fiction but this fiction has lot of real facts that feel like you are part of the story.

For me this is not a fiction, it is a book that introduces various new and important terms in the fields of computer, internet, banking, social networking, gaming, drugs etc.

While reading the book, I used to often forget that whether I am reading a fiction or it happened or it is happening, there is always thin line differentiating between fiction and reality. This books takes away your breath in the ending sequence. You will be hardly able to guess who did what. This is beauty in the writing.

I would like to recommend this book to everyone whether he is fond of fiction or not. Everybody can get some great findings in it.

Let me introduce each new terminology you can get from God is a Gamer
Bitcoins: I am also a big fan of the concept of the Bitcoins. In India there are few people who know Bitcoins . I am following Bitcoins since its early days. Why didn't I blog about it I don't know. May be I am also afraid of its volatility. Earlier the value of Bitcoins are 50-60$ per Bitcoin and now it is close to 1000$per Bitcoin. I also remember remember the time when it dropped to around 800$ when some countries starting to ban Bitcoins. But regardless of all the idea is pretty cool and world is still searching for Santoshi NaKaMoto

Tor: I used to about Tor since my college days but never used for anything. Using Tor can be helpful if you know that the site you are going to visit is not trusted. It keeps you safe from revealing your personal data. I would also like to introduce duckduckgo.com for those also wants not to be tracked on Internet.

Dark Internet : if you don't surf Internet a lot you are not likely to know Dark Internet as well. In Dark Internet there is a whole new different world. And I would like to suggest to my reader that stay away from this dark matter. For consequences do the book itself.

Magic mushrooms : Do Google or read the book.

Hemlock : Do Google or better read the book.
This is the which made me a fan of fiction. The twists in the plot can make you say wow. How different stories inside this book binds make the reading fun.
The aspects of day to day life described in the book make it total real and details with aspects make you see like movie when you read this.
I was able to extract following extracts from the book.

•  Introduction to Wikileaks
• US diplomacy
• Virtual currency
• Email phishing
• How to/not to get mugged in Brazil
• Online anonymity
• Online gaming industry
• Love, passion and family values
• Drug addiction
• Malwares and IT security
• Betrayal

These aspects make it worth a try. you will be learn many things.
For me it's a 4 out 5 in terms of rating. 1 point is due to my small range of reading in fiction.

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How the game begun

I use to visit Blogadda very often just to see if there is any contest or event going on. That's how I came across Game of Blogs. I was excited to take part of it but somehow I missed to register. But then I got a reminder call from the Blogadda . thanks Blogadda. I registered immediately and got in the Game of Blogs.

Like all participants I was also eager to know what I have to go, what I have to write what will be the topic, etc etc. After few days a team of 10 people assigned for Game of Blogs in which I was also a part of.

As soon as I got the team n story details I decided to take immediate action on future plans and plot. Meanwhile I was thinking about the story I email to each teammates to collaborate and contribute as soon as possible . Out of 10 I got reply from 6 of them within few hours.

We crossed our first hurdle of mode of communication, for story discussion there was chain conference call in which each person will call another member till all join. And for further discussions we agreed to communicate via Whatsapp.

On the very first day we had a good conference call of 1 hour around 11 to 12 in which we almost decided our plot and we assigned the sequence of bloggers who will write first, second and so on.

In this discussion we decided to give each blogger freedom for the story board. He/she had to pick the story line from previous members and he was free to take the story according to his will.

So our teammates continue to write and post for the game of blogs. I would like to thank Mr Sneh for the team Co ordination as well as communication with Blogadda as well. Sneh was always there for any team member whether it's 7am or 1 am .

For our first round I like to thanks all the team members who took participation in the event. Due to all of the effort we made we successfully crossed the first hurdle and we entered the second round.  But due to personal obligations,certain team members finally decided to leave the contest and not to participate in second round but rest of the teammates didn't lose hope.

We got storyboard for the second round, this time we decided to change our strategy for the event. What we decided was to bind each and every blogger to plot ie starting and end point will be fixed before any post. Thus we decided a common plot and divided into 7 parts and assigned each part to a particular member.

In this way anyone was free to write at any point of time. In second round we got some new faces. Special thanks Blogadda and Sneh for the seamless effort.

After the second round we waited anxiously for the results and yes we got the results. We were 12 th from 30 entries. We just missed 2 positions to get into the third round.

But never mind, we learn a lot from this event. It made me and Sneh very good friends. Besides blogging we now share personal interests. This event taught us Co ordination between persons with different mindsets and interests. For us winning was not crucial, taking part till the end was.