“It didn’t matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick [...]
Filed under: Books | 4 Comments »
As per my speculation for future decades of my life, formed by looking at sample data from many-many lives around me (i have huge extended family with 12 uncles n aunts and I am the youngest in my generation at my mother’s side), I believe the best time to invest on books and music is [...]
Filed under: Books, People | 1 Comment »
“When we look at a landscape, we do not see what is there, but largely what we think is there… We read landscapes, in other words, we interpret their forms in the light of our own experience and memory, and that of our share cultural memory.”
Robert Macfarlane, the author of my latest love, “Mountains of [...]
Filed under: Books, History, travel | 2 Comments »
Had I been a guy, a Jew hopefully to undo with unwanted obstructions, in the times of 2nd World War and lived in Amsterdam, I would have definitely tried dating this wonderful girl who existed at the same time!
As usually quoted, The Diary of Anne Frank is the story of an ordinary girl, Anne, in [...]
Filed under: Books | 4 Comments »
John Holt’s How Children Fail is one of the many books which Arvind Gupta’s site share in MSWord format. “Educational Classic” was what site said for the book. So I (mis)used the office resources and got myself a print out of the book. To read at my leisure. It soon became the best thing I have [...]
Filed under: Books | 5 Comments »
”Suppose all that you have always valued in your life was shown to be an illusion. What if your precious beliefs, maxims, platitudes, and traditions were inverted and distorted beyond recognition? You suddenly realize that what is good is bad; what is beauty is foul; what is virtue, vice. What if all your points of [...]
Filed under: Abstraction, Books | 2 Comments »
Don’t ask me why she titled it so. You would need to read the book for that. Every page. Every word. And if your choice is any bit similar to mine, then you are going to love it. No, more than that. You are going to love to live in it.
Generally we like the stuff we can [...]
Filed under: Books | 4 Comments »
 | S.karthick on There’s a heavy cloud in… |
 | sujith on The Nine Unknown Men |
 | Ankur on Surprises… |
 | Rajat on Surprises… |
 | snix on Surprises… |
