Book review wise or otherwise

1. Book Review on
Wise & Otherwise
- Sudha Murthy
Jyoti Joshi - B12 MFM -10
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2. Agenda
About the author
About the book
Likes about the book
Dislikes about the book
Recommendations
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3. About the author
Who is Sudha Murthy
•Chairperson of Infosys
•Married to Narayana Murthy
•Founder of several orphanages, into rural development efforts,
movement to provide schools with computer and library facilities
•Established the 'The Murthy Classical Library of India' at Harvard
University
•First female engineer hired at India's largest auto manufacturer
TATA
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4. Likes about the book
•Simple language
•Simple words , No exaggeration, glamour or criticism
•Short Length stories
•Independent stories with not more than 5-6 pages length
•Realistic
•Talks about humanity and social issues of India
•Incidences in form of lesson to be learned in life
•Tribute to people
•Lesson of Life can be learned from anyone and anywhere at
any phase of life from beggar, old friend, wicked son, in
train…..
•Tribute to Indian culture and rituals
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5. Dislikes about the book
•Due to short length you get disconnected from actual zest of the
characters
•Book focuses on people of all age, however lands some where in
middle
•After some time it sounds like grandma’s lessons
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6. Recommendations
•Recommend for :
•Specially for Children of age 10-15 years
•People interested in reading human experiences
and understand human behavior
•It can be a good read while travelling
•Not Recommend for :
•Overseas people since Indian rituals and culture are not explained
in brief
•For people who are very practical
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7. THANK - YOU
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