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This book is a series of conversations intermingled by historical facts, between a grandfather, who has lived through the struggles of India’s Independence and a 16-year-old boy, infatuated with the series ‘Game of Thrones.’
They are different in many ways but they both love stories and they love to observe and reflect on what they see within and around themselves. In this book, they observe and narrate the striking similarity between the real-life characters of Britain and India during India's struggle for freedom, and the characters of ‘Game of Thrones’ to create an exciting story.
But they don’t stop there. They wonder if life must be so tough or is there a lighter way to live? Its mesmerizing, as they talk about life, about death and a lot that happens in between these two events. hey try to drop the conventional beliefs and, in this book, meet and question - Anger, Greed, Fear, Courage, Forgiveness, Beliefs and Power Games.
By the end of this book, one realizes that we are not as different as we thought we are. We seem to be wanting the same things and making the same mistakes. We are left wondering, if history ever changes, or it just repeats itself in different forms. If we look at our lives, there seems to be more chaos than order. What is it then, we question, that we should be learning from our past and how? One cannot help but wonder - so much history, so many lessons, yet here we are, unable to understand life.
Viren Kalra
Viren was born on November 30, 2002 in Delhi. He is the only child of his parents and lives with his extended family. His father, Manav is a MBA in Business Studies, and is currently an entrepreneur. His mother, Ritu is a Chartered Accountant and runs the family business.
He is a high school senior at Delhi Public School, RK Puram, where he studies the social and natural sciences. In school, in addition to serving as the Director of the Mathematical Society, Viren is also a senior member of the Health Club in which he trains his juniors in Basic Life Support Techniques, like CPR.
Outside school, Viren has been extensively involved in various research projects throughout high school. He did an independent research study in which he developed a customised democracy index for India, ascertaining the relative importance of political principles that determine a national status and also developed an index for this. He is passionate about quantitative research related to the social sciences and hopes to use mathematics as a tool to transform the political domain.
In his free time, Viren loves to solve riddles, do sports analytics, read anecdotes, and watch travel documentaries.
He describes himself as strong willed, introspective, and witty.
His grandparents migrated from Pakistan to India during partition in 1947 and this subject is very close to his heart. He has grown up hearing about the struggles which his country faced during colonisation and about the heroic acts of freedom fighters. The interactions with his grandparents made him value life and all its ups and downs.
