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Protected: Winding-Down-2023 Reading
Category: The Whistle Library
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: Seeing through September headwinds
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Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi for a VUCA World
I am reading the second volume of the three-volume selection of Gandhi’s Moral and Political Writings, edited by Raghavan Iyer, that is part of my aged father’s library at home. I had read the first volume decades ago when I was visiting my parents from Delhi and thought it’s high time, I read the remaining… Continue reading Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi for a VUCA World
Protected: Reading Between the Lines of War and Geopolitics
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Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word
I have worked in advertising all my life, as a writer. It is a business that requires creativity, good communication skills, as also an understanding of business. Most of all, it is a service business and a people-based one. If you can’t express yourself clearly and effectively, you’re in trouble. While I have been writing… Continue reading Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word
Peripatetic Perch 