The second of the books my aged father presented me for my birthday this year is The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen. Written and published in 2012 by OUP, the book is an account of life in Central Asia and Western China during ancient times when the Silk Road trade is said… Continue reading The Silk Road: A New History Full of Strange Surprises
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My aged father presented me Ghost-Eye for my birthday last month, and it was after a long time that one was reading a novel by Amitav Ghosh. Actually, it’s not a novel in the real sense of the term, but a strange tale of supernatural proportions. It’s a story that combines reincarnation, superstition, fantasy and… Continue reading A Fishy Tale of Reincarnation Cases in Modern Times
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In my review of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 in April this year, I had written about how the book traced the evolution of Indian thought. I had also written about how the book traces the ways in which Indian philosophical thought was heavily influenced by Buddhism and Jainism, and how the latter were in turn… Continue reading Indian Philosophy Volume 2: A Journey Towards Theism
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Among the many books I presented my aged father for his 93rd birthday last year, was one by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian novelist, Naguib Mahfouz. Titled The Meaning of Civilisation, it is a compilation of his newspaper articles for Al Ahram and is the second volume in what was originally a 3-volume book in Arabic.… Continue reading Civilisation and Egypt as a Modern State
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