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Protected: Winding-Down-2023 Reading
Category: Review
The Dangers of Supplanting Caste for Race
Finished reading the second book that my aged father gifted me in Goa for my birthday this year. I hadn’t heard of the author or any of her books, even though she is supposed to be a Pulitzer Prize winner. Right from the start, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson struck me… Continue reading The Dangers of Supplanting Caste for Race
Protected: Reading the Omens of October 2023
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Smoke and Ashes, And Parallels Too Many
This August I received two books from my aged father for my 61st birthday and one of them is Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh. He has written this years after writing the Ibis trilogy – a fictional account of India’s opium trade with China – which was well reviewed in the press at the… Continue reading Smoke and Ashes, And Parallels Too Many
Protected: Between China and India, the World
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When Prying into Writers’ Lives Passes Off as Literature
For the past few years that I have been blogging, regular readers of my blog must have noticed my lamenting the lack of anything intelligent or thought-provoking to read. Most of my complaining has been about books – old and new – that unprofessional PR agency idiot bosses and their cronies in RK Swamy/BBDO Chennai… Continue reading When Prying into Writers’ Lives Passes Off as Literature
Protected: Reading Between the Lines of War and Geopolitics
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Protected: Reading Through This Summer’s Flux
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Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
It must certainly be an eternity since I read a novel from the 19th century. My aged father had ordered a copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot from Amazon more than a year ago and I thought I must read it. I have already shared some of my observations about the book on social media,… Continue reading Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
Protected: Reading for An Uneventful Summer
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Peripatetic Perch 