Quick review’s of Books and Documentaries

feeling bored today so thought of  sharing some reviews about  the Books, and documentaries

Books

• Seeds of terror I wrote a review for this check out the Hiperlink
• Indian Caste system A study  by Hayavadana Rao : This is a very small book about the Cast system in india. the book tells about how caste sytem got started and how its been followed from the centuries and book gives analysis about different Theory proposed by different people both Indian and foreigns about the origin of Caste sytem. he also talks about Why the bramins are at the top and how they tried to influence the society. there are some references about Buddha, shankeracharya, and there role in caste system. he compares caste system in north India and south India I got to learn many things from this particular chapter. overall the book is very informative its may not be for a light reading but its for the people who want to do some research into caste system.

Documentaries:

Germs Guns and Steel : A friend of mine Sudeep has suggested me to read this book but i did not get it  and luckily i got the documentary made by National geographic derived from same book narrated by Jared Diamond the author of the book, The title of this thing can also be called as “A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years”. have you ever got a doubt that why only Europeans have concerned the whole world and why not Indians or Africans. Are they gifted human beings ? why there is lot of inequalities in human societies like Africans are poor and less technologically developed and why American are highly developed. this documentary give the answer about one simple question even though we all started from the same Origin but why there are inequalities in the societies. the documentary is divided into 3 episode of each 1 hr i guess. check out wiki for more info

The Story of India : The Story of India is a BBC TV documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, it comes with 6 Episodes. Wow its amazing Show with lot of info abt the history of India present in a very wonderful way. I came to know many new and great things about India If you people don’t know following things then you have to watch the Show.

• There is a fire festival which is being celebrated in india(kerala) (i don’t no the name) where they sings songs with no Words only sounds like the birds and owls make its originated 10,000 years back when there was no language discovered in this world still to this day its followed in kerala in the very same way its done 10.000 years back. this thing you can see only in india
• The harappa is the biggest city in the world at that time.
• there is one village in Tamil Nadu where the entire village is having the genome which roots back to Africa (the African genome is preserved in those people because those people married only people from there village) so they say south Indians came from Africa and North Indians are from central Asia (Aryans)
• Do you know india is the richest country in the world in the medieval period with the Largest GDP in the world.
• Do you know about Soma drink.
• cruelty was ashoka and mugals.
• people died at the time of India and pak division and the things you don’t know abt Indian freedom struggle
• war of the worlds at gaugamela ,greatness of chandragupta maurya, chola kings, Kushan Empire,Raja Kanishka
• and lot more abt India.

I feel this is must watch for all Indians and If you like the idea of watching a really good National Geographic article brought to life, with the lush photography, fascinating facts, sense of discovery and slight superficiality that implies, you’ll love “The Story of India.”

Read the review of Story of India at NYtimes

Emotional life :This Emotional Life is a three-part PBS series that explores ways to improve our social relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive. its very good i learnt lot of things form this show and i rate it 4/5  BTW  you can see the real person who has asperger’s syndrome in this show (shahrukh khan MNK) this show is all about social relationships (friends Family and Love) , Effects of stress and depression, what makes people happy and how can we be happy.