Books, Reading and Life
Book reviews, recommendations, personal essays, poems, and notes on life.
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Everything
Why does it feel like,That I’ve been places with you; Places that I haven’t visited, or even read about. Places (both inside and out) that I…
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BOOK RECOMMENDATION : KLARA AND THE SUN BY KAZUO ISHIGURO
May contain spoilers* I just read this. It’s a book where, strikingly, an Artificial Friend (Artificial Intelligence based specie named Klara) reminds us what…
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the year 2020, in books. balancing the desire to be lost with the longing to be found.
Books have meant different things to me – at different points of time in my life. At times, I’ve read to understand and interpret…
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A quick review of ‘Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World’ by Fareed Zakaria.
I didn’t imagine 2020 to shape out the way that it did. And my guess is – you didn’t, either. ‘The most well laid…
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“Snuggling to Survive”. A review of ‘Humankind : A Hopeful History’ by Rutger Bregman.
The world is fast losing faith in itself, and these are extremely cynical times. To make things worse, pandemic type situations also bring out…
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Diary of a Dust Bin
An unemployed-post-graduate’s resume- for an underpaying clerical job; A poor widow’s application- for an insignificant pension; A prescription for medicines- that the abandoned senior…
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From Bar to Bench, and back | Story of Life So Far; Well, More or Less.
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within…
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An afternoon of shattered certainties (and glass)
a slice of life….
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Farewell, Dad
This is about my friend and father (“Comrade”). No, not really; this is about me trying to come to terms with my father’s illness…
