2018 has been a Journey filled with lots of travel Stories. Right From Jaipur to Jodhpur in India to Monoco and Morocco for Work. And not to forget the highlight – Japan for Family Holiday.
Culture
Experiencing the Rajasthan culture in India to experiencing the Japanese culture and living the Moroccan life.
All these places either had Food, lifestyle or architecture. And these Culture became another Journey in itself.
Books worth the Read In 2018.
Journeys through the books.
Starting from Exiting West to Landing at the port of Mokha and Many reads in between from open by Andre Agassi to “Killing Commendatore by Murakami below are the top 5 reads of 2018.
1.Exit West – by Mohsin Hamid stories of immigrants.
2.Homo Deus – by Yuval Harari How the Technology is collecting data and using it.
3.Born a Crime – by Trevor Noah A true story of a comedian born in South Africa with a mother being a black and father a white.
4.Monk of Mokha – by Dave Eggers – Story of how The port of Mocha coffee travelled across the international waters.
5.Killing Commendatore – by Murakami
Noteworthy Movies of 2018
1.Puzzle -How a simple gift of a puzzle changes the perspective of one individual
2.Crazy Rich Asians – The Big fat Indian wedding going global
3.Searching – How technology helps track down a father daughter and her murderer.
4.Ben is Back – A young drug addict and his mother’s story to come in terms with reality.
And the Hindi film industry had many movies to choose to watch this year!
But there a few out there you couldn’t miss at all .
1.Pad Man by R.Balki was one of the great stories the year began with and continued till Raid, The income tax issue can sometime come as a surprise-Ajay Devgn needs to experiment.
2.Hichki -Though a inspiration from the west.Brought Rani Mukherji Back as a actor and the production house for their content.
3.Missing the only missing from this psychology thriller was the audience who missed one of the best thrillers of the year.
4.October – Simple stories are the most difficult to tell.And October by Shoojit Sircar was one such story.
5.Beyond the cloud by Majid Majidi -Had the world take notice of Ishan Khattar as an actor & performer
Raazi,Soorma,Parmanu,Andhadhun,Badhaai Ho ! And Manmarziyaan were a few movies to watch out.
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