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My Ratings: 4.5/5
It was 1996 when I first got a copy of Manorama Yearbook
from one of my classmate. I became a fan of this book since then. It is a one stop search for major GK questions.
It was the time when there was no Wikipedia, Google or internet. Time has
changed in almost 15years since then, but my loyalty towards this book is still
the same. Though I have many online search engines always ready for me and
Wikipedia with all the detailed information but still I love to flick through
its pages to get information on many hot topics or topics that never came to my
mind. Interestingly, I took help from
Wikipedia while writing this review but that doesn’t make this book any
inferior. I am writing this review considering the latest edition of this
book- Manorama Yearbook 2012.
Simply said, it is an encyclopedia of current affairs published annually in Bengali, English,
Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil languages by Malayala Manorama Group of Kerala,
India. It was first printed in 1959 in Malayalam and seven years later, the
first English edition was published. It mainly covers information related to people, places, events and other major incidents
happened during the past year.
