Posted in Books on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Though I could not read as much as I did last year, and left many book half finished, or just untouched on the shelf. These are books I did manage to finish, apart from the compulsory reading required by my job.
Fiction
Alchemy of Desire by Tarun Tejpal
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
Snow [...]
Posted in Books on January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was looking for a good thriller to engage myself and just going by the blurbs picked The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne. “The biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s crown” by the British newspaper The Mirror. And after reading the book, I concur with The Mirror. Really one of the best thrillers I have read [...]
Posted in Books on October 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Frequent visits to Landmark and not much time to read.. result a fast growing anti-library (collection of unread books). I am planning to spend all of this weekend reading and trying to finish some books which I started reading but left midway. Reading is the best activity for this weekend as my plan to [...]
Posted in Books on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last night I finished the much hyped Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. Frankly speaking I could not find any thing new about ‘The Secret’ or Law of Attractions. But, yes, a few thing impressed me. The whole marketing strategy of this book and the layout and design. The book make you touch and feel when [...]
Posted in Books, Concern, Education on September 16, 2007 | No Comments »
After a long time, got an opportunity to read a Hindi novella ‘Bigade Bachche, Sabse Achhe’ (Spoilt Kids, The best Kids) written by V R Jogi and P G Vaidya. A very simple story (it seems that you are reading a book written for 5th graders), yet a thought provoking story.
This story seriously questions [...]
Posted in Books on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I just managed to finish Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher, a leading economist of 60’s and 70’s who raised some very serious questions about economic policies of development and promoted theory of people centric development instead of ‘goods centric development’.
Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Seven on May 6, 2007 | 11 Comments »
1. Chandamama - We were waiting more eagerly to get this magazine from newspaper wala then our results. Beautiful stories of Kings, stories from ancient epics with written with clear motive of promoting values and culture in children made this magazine immensely popular among kids.
Recently, Chandamama’s last 60 years issues have been digitized, so those [...]
Posted in Books on December 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I had read a lot about Sidharth D. Sanghvi’s debut masterpiece but was yet to read the masterpiece. So this weekend, I decided to go for that and the ordinary weekend was catapulted by this book in exhilarating one. Thanks Sidharth.
The Last Song at The Dusk is a brilliant example of magical realism. Sanghvi who [...]
Posted in Books on November 10, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Habit No. 1 – I love books too much to annoy my friend/near and dear ones. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.-Oscar Wilde
The kick I get from laying my hand on good book cannot be compared. I am just [...]
Posted in Blog and Blogging, Books on July 31, 2006 | 1 Comment »
1. One book that changed your life:The Prophet - Khalil Gibran’s masterpiece remains the most influential book for me. Everytime I read I get something new from it.2. One book that you’ve read more than once:Autobiography of a Yogi - By Paramhansa Yoganand. This is book is interesting like any thriller, thoughtprovoking, educating and spirtitual [...]
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