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I must have been eleven or twelve, I imagine, when a teacher gifted me with a tiny book hardly the size of my hand. It was an enchanting little thing and I carried it around in the pocket stitched into my school uniform. It was a big pocket and I remember how during recess the girls in school walked around the canteen with their wallets bulging ( Read more... )

Yes! I've got Hotel Dusk! Now I'm stuck between wanting to start on it today after finishing the first part of Ace Attorney and starting on it after the exams when I'll need more distractions..

Yes, Preet. What a life-altering decision it will be either way.

If and when there is milk in the fridge, these days I mix myself a cup of coffee with just a dash of Van Houten chocolate powder, and sip at it until I feel the cotton-wool-and-oil heaviness melt off my head. The coffee powder is a cheap 3-in-1 but my taste buds are surprisingly accustomed to its thin, weak taste; I've come to like it, and although ( Read more... )

I need a job so I can buy and read Margaret Atwood and Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger.

After 'The Grand Inquisition', the best chapter I've read so far is Chapter 17 in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, in which Mustafa Mond and the Savage talk about god and religion. It's absolutely brilliant. Honestly, I can see Mond's side of the argument quite well and I sympathize with his vision of the world. Unfortunately, I do not sympathize ( Read more... )

"K. V. Mardia, in his book The Scientific Foundations of Jainism, has interpreted karma in terms of modern physics, suggesting that the particles are made of karmons, dynamic high energy particles which permeate the universe. However, most scientists do not consider karma theory to be within the bounds of science, as many believe it is a non- ( Read more... )

"It has been 33 years since the book was published and plenty has changed, but I still had to put down Naipaul's India: A Wounded Civilization after a while (thirty pages from the end) because it became too much to stomach. While an argument can be made for its "stark honesty" (shouldn't it be stark misunderstanding or stark anti-Hinduism?), I ( Read more... )

That I have been exceptionally lazy is undeniable. I cannot even say that I've been busy with school - I wish I have - but that is exactly what makes Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag the perfect book to talk about in lieu of the recent events which have come to pass. But before I do that, I want to talk about a new secondhand bookshop introduced by ( Read more... )

I just thought of the perfect new year resolution. I should have done something like Read One Book A Week For One Year And Keep A Journal About It.

Oh, it's so perfect. And I know it would be cheating if I started now because then I could make an equally solid case about starting after the exams, during the 3-month break and that would defeat the ( Read more... )