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So, Learning Data Science can be Fun Too!

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  Review by Ronica Wahi   Master the Mystic Arts: The Journey Begins By Harish C. Rijhwani First published: April 15, 2021, Self-published, Kindle. (Paperback pub.: April 30, 2021) Kindle Edition Pages: 199.  ASIN: B08YY7X4FX “The world of Analytics/Data Science is like Magic to many people. In this book, I attempt to demystify this Art,” writes Harish C. Rijhwani in the Preface (p. 9) to his new book , Master the Mystic Arts: The Journey Begins . Like in his book Technology to Business: The Invisible Gap , the review for which can be read here , Rijhwani brings in personal and professional experiences, anecdotes, historical information to make clear the concepts that he wants his reader to grasp. In Master the Mystic Arts: The Journey Begins , he adds examples from a wider range of material; he picks up aspects from well-loved movies, TV shows, stories, and baking trials to get the right texture and taste. Importantly, Rijhwani points to how, to understand a given co

A Horror Story with Surprising Twists

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  Review by Ronica Wahi   Angoothi ka Bhoot By Manish Sharma First published: Chapter-wise, starting March 20, 2019, Pratilipi app. Edition reviewed: April 15, 2021, Ekatra – a joint imprint of Manjul and Pratilipi. Pages: 128.  ISBN: 9789390924417 This one is on a novel written in Hindi. The title – Angoothi ka Bhoot (loosely translated, “The Ghost of the Ring”), and the cover suggest that it’s a horror tale. Which it is. But it doesn’t confine itself to horror. The protagonist here is a young working woman named Neha, who is planning on soon marrying her boyfriend Anil. Her life takes a sudden turn when the ghost Jai enters it through the new ring on her finger. Jai pulls her further and further into a world entirely different from the one she has always known and lived in. As mentioned above, there is much more than horror and the fears that manifest itself into horror in Angoothi ka Bhoot. The pull away from the real world and deep into the dream world, such tha