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Book Review: Died and Back by Vandana Srivastava

This book is a reason to believe that every soul and divine is connected. You don’t need to ask any premeditated questions before picking up this book. As you read, you believe more on your divine connection designed for you in the ethereal cosmos. Short and crisp to read, this memoir by Vandana Srivastava nudges readers to identify that spark of divine intervention in their life which is normally hidden from our sights, the way she got right since her childhood to various phases of life.


Divinity let miracles happen in your life. If you are aware...you fill up with gratitude…if not then a person suffers even when they are blessed in disguise. Vandana has a unique point of view towards her life. She redeems her life being governed and guided by divine powers – she is absolutely right if you read this book, all the stories one by one from her life, of her family tree, of her husband in the Indian Air Force and so on…makes up the justification in an order.

She enigmatically blends her master storytelling prowess in this spiritually rising memoir. As you continue ahead with the book, she introduces her life to you like a kin. Right since her birth, being a twin partner, she was different than the others. In her family it was her Badi Maa that raised her. She is one of the reasons for divine connection that Vandana is bestowed with; however, she identifies that later in her life. From family to husband’s duty in the air force to roaming across jungles and finding help through strangers on the road, she sums up all morale-lifting experiences with dazzling élan.

Often the word divine is reckoned either with spirituality or religion, well this reads like a storybook, different stories however of the same person and her experiences of divine interference will amaze you. “Died and Back” is an apt title, as quite a number of times the author and a few people in her network eluded death narrowly. She weaves tales of her survival in unavoidable circumstances, inevitably the mystical angles keep adding in the overall narrative. If you ever wished to read stories powered by divine faith, and wanted to know someone that has defied death in its face…meet Vandana Srivastava. She narrates her key experiences of life in such a graceful way that you will want to read more her as an individual than an author.

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