The Bhagavad Gita- a Poetic Transcreation
I read Mani Rao’s transcreation in poetry of the Bhagavad Gita. By using contemporary language like Famous Five to talk about the Pandavas, she has made the Gita much more accessible. I’d like to...
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Book Review: Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire is a Bit Burnt Out
I expected more from Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire. Spies in Elizabethan England seemed a deadly combination. Since the sequel to Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, was also powerful, I thought...
Things a Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone (Twitter Co-Founder): Book Review
This book by Twitter’s co-founder, Biz Stone for the most part reads like a fast paced novel. It reminded me strongly of Silicon Valley. Especially the part where he talks about magicking a $500...
Book Review- The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
This was a thrilling book. Since it dealt with writers, I found it all the more interesting. It did tend to get a bit melodramatic though. That’s when the author would insert Malcolm’s deranged...
Go set a watchman- Book Review
Reading Harper Lee’s sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird only led me to compare it the one I had first read. Go Set a Watchman came off unfavourably. Yet, it has its moments. The...
Maya, the Screen- Book review
Turning 30! is to be avoided. Wish the same was possible with actually turning thirty. A thought- mental age differs from physical age, like kairos differs from chronos. There is good kairos and bad...
The Road Behind, Now, Ahead- Book Review
Am reading the Road Less Travelled & Beyond by M.Scott Peck. Says a lot of things which make sense, although he focusses too much on The Man Above for my taste. The need to...
To Kill a Mockingbird- Movie Review
To kill a mockingbird- the movie- is much tighter than the book. The book had it’s own charm, a bildungsroman of Scout. Gregory Peck as the restrained Atticus Finch stole the show. He picked...
Books Binge- Review
I finished A star called Henry by Roddy Doyle..a very interesting subject. Ireland during the civil war period. History seems so much more personal when lived through a particular person’s crises. Also read Galileo’s...
Art of Loving by Erich Fromm- Book Review
Just read Art of Loving by Eric Fromm- made a lot of sense. Care, respect, responsibility and knowledge are his relationship cornerstones.