A review of The Irresponsible Self by James Wood. I’ve wanted to buy this book for a very long time, so this Christmas I did, along with a host of other essay collections. This might be the best of the bunch, though, because James Wood has a secret: he’s good at destroying things. So while [...]
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I stumbled across The Blind Assassin. I say so because it is not in my nature of reading habits to pick up a book out of lists published elsewhere, but this was an aberration, and a good one at that. The novel has deepened my faith that what is written can stir up thoughts, emotions [...]
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Harry Potter is not just “the boy who lived”. The books and movies read and watched by millions of people around the world have touched their lives in some way or the other. And not just Potter, each character in the story of the magical world holds a special place in the narrative. And for [...]
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A review of Donna Haraway: Live Theory by Joseph Schneider (New York: Continuum, 2005) The last book of theory that I read was The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek, which I read right after his The Ticklish Subject. I tried reading Living in the End Times next, but there’s a limit now to how much [...]
Continue reading …Sheryl Sandberg to launch her book “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”
February 23, 2013 No Comment
A lady who earned double Harvard degrees, held the VP position in Google and is presently the COO in Facebook, is now ready with her book urging women to lean in their work rather than lean back. Yes, this is Sheryl Sandberg for you! A power icon, someone women may look upto for inspiration. She [...]
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Stories of chaotic love-cum-arranged marriages abound. Perhaps you are yourself privy to first hand tales of your friend’s such tale. The debut novel by Jayanand Ukey “When the signal turns red” revolves around Girish and Prajakta who fell in love in college, had four wonderful years, got cushy jobs and were just waiting for the [...]
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The first story of Dick’s that I read was “Human Is.” I was in high school, and I liked how the woman didn’t report the alien who took over her husband’s body, because the alien was more human than he ever was (the new husband liked children, the old one was emotionally abusive, etc). “Human [...]
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A review of Foundation’s Edge Isaac Asimov (Spectra, 1991) Foundation’s Edge is the sixth book in Asimov’s Foundation series. It is also one of the best. Not so much because of the heroes, though they’re good too, but because of its villains. First up is Delora Delarmi, Speaker of the Second Foundation. She’s power-hungry, and [...]
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Watching The Vampire Diaries and reading modern literature on vampires gets a teenager all starry eyed. And ignoring the few failures where the mystical creatures are shown to sparkle in the sun, a number of TV series as well as fiction books have succeeded in depicting a Vampire as one of the most desirable species. [...]
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Frankly, I thank my lucky stars I got to read ‘Lucky Girls’. Because it really is that good. And then some. It’s been a while since I’ve read what you call a ‘really great book’. The sort of book that comes up every now and then that changes your perspective on things. It wouldn’t be [...]
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