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About The Book: The Kite Runner is the first Novel by Afgan-American author Khalid Hosseini Published in 2003. The Books tells the story of Amir, a Sunni Muslim, from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan, struggles to find his place in the world because of the aftereffects and fallout from a series of traumatic childhood events. The Kite Runner is a novel about Relationships - specifically the relationships between Amir and Hassan, Baba, Rahim Khan, Soraya and Sohrab - how the complex relationships in our lives overlap and connect to make us the people we are. Why Title The Kite Runner? Kites and everything associated with them (kite flying and kite fighting) are the most important symbols in the novel. Traditionally, kites symbolize both prophecy and fate, and both of these ideas can be applied to characters and events in The Kite Runner. However, kites symbolize so much in The Kite Runner. The Afghan Kites with the glass strings symbolize the dichot...

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish: Rashmi Bansal with her motley compilation of 25 write-ups on as many Indian entrepreneurs. Rashmi a pparently, drew inspira tion for her book from Steve Job's famous Standford University Speech. However, except the title of the book, there is no other similarity between the two. Review:                                   This book tells the stories of entrepreneurial ambitions of 25 IIM-A alumni and how they realized their dreams even as the hard times threatened to do them in. The author deserves credit for having smartly cherry-picked the 25-profiles. This eclectic mix comprises of those who always knew they had a penchant for entrepreneurship and those whose first choice was not entrepreneurship but as and when opportunities came knocking, they grabbed them with both hands. The book brims with stories of people who laughed in the face of temptations and gave up their plu...