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Book Review: Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury © mulshankar13.  All articles, scripts, poetry, prose, reviews written here are exclusive copyrights of mulshankar13. Any article, poetry, prose, story or reviews may be reused, quoted in full or as an excerpt only with attribution to “Source: mulshankar13”. It’s so ubiquitous. Chocolates. And a book about their evolution and struggle to reach to the common man in its various forms is what this book brings to the fore. At the epicentre is the Cadbury family and its Quaker values pioneered by George Fox. The Cadbury’s, the Rowntree’s, the Fry’s, the Lindt’s, the Hershey’s, the Mars, all get a mention in this book. And a bar of Snickers or one of Dairy Milk or the Hershey’s cocoa powder mean very different now to me when I see them in a retail store. The book offers a vivid view into the Victorian England. Industrialization had just ushered in then and with it a rampant urbanization and unchecked inequality vis-à-vis opportunities. The i

City Of Djinns: A Book Review © mulshankar13 All articles, scripts, poetry, prose, reviews written here are exclusive copyrights of mulshankar13. Any article, poetry, prose, story or reviews may be reused, quoted in full or as an excerpt only with attribution to "Source: mulshankar13". If you were to ever embark upon a tour of the historical city Delhi it must not be without reading the book City Of Djinns by William Dalrymple. The magnificent Red Fort though now only a fragment of its aura of the past, the ruins of Tughlakabad, the sandstone dome of Humayun, the Chandni Chowk market all would have a different significance if viewed through the magnifying glass of this Scottish masterpiece. Having been to Qutub Minar twice before I never knew that the enigmatic un-rusted pillar close to it was installed by the valiant Tomars who also laid the foundation of the now hardly can be imagined Lal Kot fort inside which the Qutub Minar stands. The book offers