Life Unpacked

Argghh, exams! Due to these exams which are taking forever to finish off, my to-read novels have been replaced by the course books. The book "The Krishna Key" which I was supposed to read and review within a week after receiving it took me around a month (approximately) to be done with. During my train travels I saw a lot of people reading this book and that made me more desperate everytime. I'm glad it somehow got completed because it seemed like an impossible task amidst this exam's humdrum. Enough said, now onto the review. So, the first thing I did after receiving it in the mail was reading the short summary on the back-cover (a thing which I supposedly do with ever book). The summary confused me a bit, confused in a good way. Because, since childhood I have been watching, listening and reading all the mythological stories and the story of Lord Krishna happens to be the one I have watched, listened and read pretty much a lot. The book, thr...

To commence this review with, I was really bursting with excitement at the prospect of getting a chance to reviewing Zomato Restaurant guide 2012. I expected the guide to be a condensed version of Zomato's website which is by far the best one around when it comes to restaurant reviews and their relevant details. I guess my expectations were too high and I ended up being disappointed. Let get started with the pros of the guide book first: At first glance, the book looked promising enough to me with it's impressive number of pages and informative index, hence, I devote an entire hour reading each and every page of it. The guide book has listed almost all top-notch as well as well-known restaurants and cafes in the Mumbai region, arranged in alphabetic way, which makes it easy to navigate. Segregation of restaurants and cafes on the basis of mood wins an another brownie point for this guide book. It has also listed the cuisines available, address, phone numbers, approxima...