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10 Days, 10 Books -  Day 5:  “Pride and Prejudice”  :by Jane Austen This blog is part of my series “10 Days, 10 Books,” where I share the essence and life lessons of world classics in a way that makes you feel you’ve almost read them yourself. Read & Discussed by: Dr Sunil S Rana  Pride and Prejudice  is the second published novel (but third to be written) by English author  Jane Austen , written when she was age 20–21, and later published in 1813. A  novel of manners , it follows the character development of  Elizabeth Bennet , the  protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.  Her father  Mr Bennet , owner of the Longbourn estate in  Hertfordshire , has five daughters, but his property is  entailed  and can only be passed to a male heir. His wife lacks an inheritance, so his family face...

10 Days, 10 Books,  Day 4:  “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle Read & Discussed By Dr Sunil S Rana  236 Pages  This blog is part of my series “10 Days, 10 Books,” where I share the essence and life lessons of world classics in a way that makes you feel you’ve almost read them yourself. Immersive Summary In The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle invites us into a world where time is no longer a tyrant and inner peace is always within reach. Drawing from a profound spiritual awakening, Tolle guides us to see that our true identity isn’t the ceaseless chatter of our mind, but the watching presence behind it; the calm observer. Through a simple Q&A format, he teaches that emotional suffering is rooted in our resistance to the present; wrapped in regrets of the past or anxieties about the future. True alignment comes when we detach from our mind-made identity, the ego, and embrace the Now; this fleeting, infinitely rich moment where life is truly lived. C...

10 Days, 10 Books: Day-3  1984 by George Orwell  (328 Pages) This blog is part of my series “10 Days, 10 Books,” where I share the essence and life lessons of world classics in a way that makes you feel you’ve almost read them yourself. Read & Discussed by: Dr Sunil S Rana  Nineteen Eighty-Four  (also published as  1984 ) is a  dystopian novel  by the English writer  George Orwell . It was published on 8 June 1949 by  Secker & Warburg  as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of  totalitarianism ,  mass surveillance and  repressive regimentation  of people and behaviours within society. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]  Orwell, a  democratic socialist  and an  anti-Stalinist , modelled an  authoritarian socialist Britain on the  Soviet Union  in the era of  Stalinism  and the practices of  state censorship  and  state pr...