There come occasions in your life when you find yourself at loss of words to describe them. Your vocabulary loses you midway and you get rolled over in sense of awe. I had only one such occasion to moon over until this moment of course, it was when Sachin retired. To this day, I don't know why I didn't write anything about it but I am probably wiser now to not fret about it anymore.
Dominique Lapierre's magnum opus 'City of Joy' is what induced my second moment of 'blackout'. I am not entirely sure whether I would ever be able to read a book as good as this one again in my life. It comes from 'non-fiction' genre and is a profoundly religious books that mixes the elements of 'compassion' and 'generosity' from all religions in a mythical proportion. At the core, however, it's a book that tells the story of 'Anand Nagar' or 'City of Joy' as more popularly known from the viewpoints of two persons: Stephan Kovalski, a Polish Christian Priest and Hasari Pal, a well-to-do farmer once now turned into a peasant. Anand Nagar is a slum of 70,000-strong population and this population lives in an area that's barely three times the size of a football field. How they live there is anybody's guess but Dominique will nevertheless expose you to myriad other truths that would be hitherto unknown to you. Meticulously researched over the period of two years, it's a book that is rich both in details and emotions. It demands an 'intimate' reading of weeks if not months from readers but one will definitely be a 'changed' person after having read it. This book is 'epic' and thus without further belittling it with my petty words, I shall borrow the words of glorious recommendation made by my more capable companions. Here they are:
Pope John Paul: "A lesson of hope and faith for the world."
New York Times: "No less than Bible in its messages of human nobility. Dominique Lapierre is now changing thousand of lives the world over."
Mother Teresa : "A magnificent homage to the courage of the poorest of the poor".
Los Angeles Times: "A positive, uplifting experience....lending hope and joy to us all".
Read it, your life and perception shall never be the same again.
Dominique Lapierre's magnum opus 'City of Joy' is what induced my second moment of 'blackout'. I am not entirely sure whether I would ever be able to read a book as good as this one again in my life. It comes from 'non-fiction' genre and is a profoundly religious books that mixes the elements of 'compassion' and 'generosity' from all religions in a mythical proportion. At the core, however, it's a book that tells the story of 'Anand Nagar' or 'City of Joy' as more popularly known from the viewpoints of two persons: Stephan Kovalski, a Polish Christian Priest and Hasari Pal, a well-to-do farmer once now turned into a peasant. Anand Nagar is a slum of 70,000-strong population and this population lives in an area that's barely three times the size of a football field. How they live there is anybody's guess but Dominique will nevertheless expose you to myriad other truths that would be hitherto unknown to you. Meticulously researched over the period of two years, it's a book that is rich both in details and emotions. It demands an 'intimate' reading of weeks if not months from readers but one will definitely be a 'changed' person after having read it. This book is 'epic' and thus without further belittling it with my petty words, I shall borrow the words of glorious recommendation made by my more capable companions. Here they are:
Pope John Paul: "A lesson of hope and faith for the world."
New York Times: "No less than Bible in its messages of human nobility. Dominique Lapierre is now changing thousand of lives the world over."
Mother Teresa : "A magnificent homage to the courage of the poorest of the poor".
Los Angeles Times: "A positive, uplifting experience....lending hope and joy to us all".
Read it, your life and perception shall never be the same again.
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