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2018 is a year to be remembered, for Test cricket. This year, we have seen highs and lows of the sport, retirement of legends to the bursting of youngsters to the scene and one sided games to nail-biting games. New Year Ashes Test saw Australia win the test by an innings and 123 runs at Sydney. Usman Khawaja and Marsh brothers hit centuries and Patrick Cummins 8-fer totally decimated England. India tour of South Africa This series was the opportunity for the No.1 ranked team India to win a test series in South Africa. Little did the Indian Captain Virat Kohli know that his favourite RCB team-mate AB deVilliers would stand between India and the series, which India eventually lost by 1-2! This was Virat Kohli's first test series loss as full-time test captain. This series will be remembered by Indians for controversial playing XI for the first two games, like Rohit Sharma being picked ahead of Ajinkya Rahane. Bhuvneshwar Kumar being dropped even after a spectacular perfo...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking! It is the textbook of physics! Hawking has explained from Aristotle principle to recent developments like string theory. Stephen Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, known for Hawking radiation, gravitational singularity theorems in collaboration with Roger Penrose. This theorem predicted that black holes emit radiations. This book contains the topics that I started learning from first grade and topics that I am learning now for my bachelors degree. Hawking tickles the reader's funny bone with his scientific humour. Hawking explains the complex concepts in a simple Leman terms with scientifically accurate figures. The knowledge that is bestowed upon the readers will change the perception of space, time i.e, universe. When I was in high school, I had made a list of people I wanted meet and gain knowledge. It comprised of three people. APJ Abdul Kalam Stephen Hawking John Nash Unfortunately, I could not meet a...

Abhedhya is a kannada detective thriller written by P V Pradeepkumar.  The author as well as the book is massively underrated. This is one of the best detective novel in kannada in recent times. This is not like a classic storyline where the killer is revealed in the end. Instead it is how murder was committed. In this novel, the antagonist Suhas challenges the protagonist Vinod (police inspector) to arrest him with proof for murder which he committed two years ago and gives him one year to collect the proofs. The problem is the person who has been murdered is Suhas's own wife and she died in front of everyone due to heart attack. The problems faced by the protagonist amplifies in each and every chapter. The way the story unfolds is unpredictable. The way the protagonist investigates and proves that the death was not due to natural causes forms the crux of the story.  The writer has the unique style of writing which amplifies the reader's enthusiasm by each and e...

Thanks to one of my friend's suggestion, I read this amazing thriller! Those who have the hobby of reading books, Sidney Sheldon does not need an introduction. Sidney Sheldon was an amazing author whose first novel was acclaimed by the New York Times as ' the best first mystery novel of the year'. He is also one of the few novelists to have won a Tony Award and an Academy Award. This book is kind of edge seat thriller. The story follows the life of the protagonist Elizabeth Roffe (a young, beautiful and sole heir to a billion dollar fortune) after the death of her father in a mountain climbing accident. She becomes overnight, the richest girl in the world. The story follows her coming to terms with her father's death, someone sabotaging her company Roffe and Sons, someone trying to murder her. The way she deals with those problems and the mystery killer forms the crux of the story. The part that impressed me the most was the way the protagonist innovativel...