theredheded_bibliomaniac's reviews
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A wonderful collection of short stories as usual.. some are sad and emotional (might make you cry).. some will make you realise the other side of poverty and motherhood .. 

And some will make you happy too..
Some will make you proud to be Indian..
Overall you will enjoy reading the collection, going through various feelings.
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And all stories are real and simple writing style. 
You will year for more of her works..

"Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere - buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid. There was the cold-bath button. There was the button that produced literature. And there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world."
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Do you feel like visiting that room ...?
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Before that also consider next part.
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People live in isolation. They don't meet anyone. They only video call, there is no physical touch. They haven't seen sky, stars or earth. They have to take precautions before leaving the house..
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Now do you want to go there .. ?
Oh wait ...
You have been through it ...
Haven't you..?
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Well this one was written in 1909.
A dystopian world 
Were people are depended on machines for everything.
And is pretty much similar to our world right now the only difference is that we got this through viruses and they got it through machines.
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We all know it can actually happen due to machines too.
We have seen many ppl predict it.
Right now also we are almost depended on machine 
First our phones then laptops.... appointments through phones and meetings through phones..birthdays through phones and marriages through phones..
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I have seen many ppl ask that "do you think this virus will go all completely in a year ?" ...I always say yes coz I am an optimist ..but even if it goes, will we be safe and sound like before..?
Will things go back to normal ..?
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Yea we are seeing that things are getting normal even when the virus is still around us.
There is little bit change, like we are getting adapted.
We will use sanitisers and masks forever now..
We will wash and disinfect anything before eating..and etc.
Somewhere these are good things..
But when the time for machines will come..
Will our adaption still be a good thing ??

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Will it be alright of us to stay isolated for the sake of machines. Will it be ok to stay alone away from our loved ones..?
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Will you feel ok if someone discards some beautiful destination by saying  "this place doesn't give me ideas please close the window"  (which we only dream of visiting) ...?
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These wonderful places which we are taking for granted are totally ignored by the machine ovessed people.
I am hating this women for hating this wonderful creations.
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For them it's good breeding if you don't shake anyone's hand ..coz physical touch is not considered normal there.. people get offended by it..
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For us touch is different kind of expression..
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There is this one guy who doesn't worship machine like others and now he is in trouble..coz 
"On atavism the Machine can have no mercy."
Read this novella to find out more 😀
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Hope i could have said more about this but it is a novella and so it will be spoiler..