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Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch

'Conversation with God' is a wonderful collection of almost all questions we have all faced as teenagers. Neale Donald Walsch has written about three other books on 'Conversations with God' apart from this one, that is targeted towards teenagers. The first look at the book makes you wonder about the kind of perspective with which the book was written. The book has reference to God... and you are not sure if the author refers to the Good God who has created or is believed to have created everything you can possibly think of.... and you are not sure if you should be reading this yourself well past teenage or should you be gifting it to some teenager you know of.... I got this book as a gift from a good friend of mine.... not because I was a teenager but because some one suggested this book was good.... The book opens with a wonderful way of holding the audience's attention completely. You get glued to the words you read and your picture as a teenager slowly, quietly,

Shivaji Nagaram

Second week in bangalore....It was Friday evening. I was walking my way to the bus stop as usual... The bus stop was unusually crowded and I asked for the auto rickshaw driver there to drop me to where I was headed.He said a flat No and would not even stop for a second. Then came the next stream of autos and everytime I stopped one, I had to either hear a "No" or "Nahi" or "Illai" or "Ledhu" or "Hogathilla"..... Finally as it was getting very late, I started walking to the nearest bus station , Shivaji nagar terminus, where I was sure I would find a bus to reach home. Five minutes of musing about where is the crowd beside me heading to, why is every Muslim more prayerful than me, what is the point in being dressed in white to attend a prayer meeting, and i realised that i was also in white salwar kameez that day.... coincidentally... and that I seemed to be walking at the tail end of a procession.... Now, since school, i have hated proc