Many Lives, Many Masters - By Dr. Brian Weiss - A Review

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The classic bestseller based on a true case of past-life trauma and past-life therapy from author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks.  Dr. Weiss’s skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from “the space between lives”. 

Many Lives, Many Masters is a brilliant modern parable of humanism—it clearly wants to guide people down a path that will help society gain understanding, peace and harmony.

Dr. Weiss’s experience coupled with Catherine’s transcendental knowledge might be awe inspiring to the Occidental, but to a Hindu, who is ingrained in the cycle of life and death, with a firm belief in the concept of rebirth, this knowledge is natural. 

For the Hindu's the Bhagavad Gita along with the ancient Vedic scriptures impart this wisdom; and these teachings form the primary tenets of Hinduism. Therefore, Dr. Weiss’s mention of Hindus in the last chapter of the book comes as a wonderful acknowledgement to a religion that since time immemorial, already established all of his new-found experience.

You may feel cynical or critical of what you read, but one needs to keep an open mind. You can't just completely accept or reject what he has to say. But then, every wonder why, many a time, you meet some one you hardly know and yet you feel connected? It is as if you have known the person for years. Weird?

His and Catherine's experiences about past lives are truly fascinating, and no matter how you feel about reincarnation, the lessons from the Masters about how to live are quite universal. In the end, it all comes down to love, patience, and forgiveness, and again, an open and a critical mind.

Without doubt, very interesting and one that maintained a tempo of a fast read keeping me up late two nights in a row. Highly recommend for a good read, if you have nothing on hand currently. Feel free to share your thoughts.

Review by Mala Mahesh Bhatia.

Note: A part of the introductory review portion is from the Web.

Dahanu Road...By Anosh Irani - A Review

A fascinating insight into Dahanu's Irani and Warli communities, written with warmth, honesty, and a great deal of humour by a skilled storyteller,Anosh Irani.

He moves back and forth through the generations skillfully. His writing is visual and intense, and he creates his flawed characters with humour and compassion as they struggle with changing times and culture, while trying to survive the ghosts of the past.A beautiful novel, Dahanu Road is big with love and infused with passion

The author gently explores the story of three generations of Persians, a family who are now landowners in Dahanu, a farm and market town just outside Bombay. Grandfather Shapur, oppressed as a Zoroastrian in Persia, moved with his father to India.

After his father's death, he prospered as a merchant who branched into liquor sales, which in turn led to seizing land from his debtor customers. The oppressed Irani family in its turn became an oppressor — in the present time of the novel, Shapur is on his last legs, his son Aspi is haunted by images of past repression of the Warlis who now work the family estate in slave-like conditions, and his grandson Zairos is the young adult who will soon inherit the land (and all its tainted history and the conflict that has left as its product).

The novel is told from the point of view of those with power  and explore the tension part of the story. That comes in the form of a Warli family that parallels the three generations of Iranis. The first present day incident in the book is the sudden suicide of Ganpat, a tribal worker on the estate, whose body is discovered by Zairos.

It is claimed by Ganpat’s daughter, Kusum; as the story proceeds, we discover that the three generations of both families have interacted with each other, usually in classic oppressor-oppressed form. It is hardly a surprise that the new generation will be experiencing it in a way that is much different from their grandfather or father.

"Dahanu  Road" an  unputdownable book.

Review by Sheetal Bhatia Shirley Gajria

For the Love of books

Was invited to contribute for this blog, started wondering where to start. Yes I love reading...but read what??

Decided to write about which according to me is the most funniest book I have ever read. Some P G Wodehouse fans might take offence if I say I rate this book more funny than Wodehouse books.

Here I am talking of Jeffery Archers 'Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less'. The book starts with typical Jeffery style, indepth details about the stock makers and stuff...but once it gets on to the conning part it is hilarious!

The cons are not over the top...believeable and have their downs as the the characters are not professional cons.

Would highly recommend it for the love of books:)