And finally, when you visit India Habitat Center…
January 4, 2007 – 10:40 pm
I have three Edward de Bono books - Masterthinkers Handbook, Tactics and Lateral Thinking. While the last of these is his most famous work, the first is the only one that I have read a substantial part of. I’ve read bits of the others, but completed none. None of these are self help books - […]
October 9, 2006 – 11:40 am
From the Delhi Book Fair (had gone on three days, once with Jai and Aishwarya)
Umm…not what immediately comes to mind.
I’m not sure if I clicked this one for the title related to chocolate sex or a name like Marsha Mellow
Go figure
The photo isn’t clear: it’s called “The autobiography of an ex-coloured man.” Black or white?
No […]
So you think that habroneme isn’t English? Or obrumpent. Ah, you foppotee, you should be pudified. You need to see this.
Dicaearchies, though, are just a figment of our imagination.
For the uninitiated, Darya Ganj is where the Sunday Bazaar for books is held in Delhi, every Sunday. After a Friday and a Saturday that had been overcast and breezy, with the occasional relief of rain, Sunday lived up to its name: it was painfully hot, and patience and temper had evaporated. For the most […]
Well, now that the exams are over, it’s time to get back to reading and education (as opposed to studying). After college finished in October- after a heavy duty, 14 hrs a day saturating workload during the capstone course - I took a break from management studies. Eight months of abstinence, and I’ve forgotten many […]
I found Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart interesting and highly readable not because the writing style made it readable and interesting, or because the content was gripping: I liked it because it was exotic and quite different from the other books that I’ve been subjecting myself to:
Achebe tells the story of the rise of Onkonko […]
March 28, 2006 – 11:52 pm
From True Satire by Dryden:
A witty Man is tickl’d while he is hurt in this manner, and a Fool feels it not. The occasion of an Offence may possibly be given, but he cannot take it. If it be granted that in effect this way does more Mischief; that a Man is secretly wounded, and […]
Short Story: The Clafouti Syndrome by Adam Benforado at The Cafe Irreal
Play: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Short Movie: More by Mark Osborne (around 14.5mb. Worth it. Requires Quicktime. Link via Ankit’s Blog)
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