This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
Some I love, some I dont, but read I must !
I re-read Khaled Hosseini’s book “The Kite runner” last to last week. The first time I read it I fell in love with his style of wrting and the story touched a deep chord. Then I read “A Thousand splendid suns” and couldn’t get over it for days. That a neighbouring nation and one with … Read more
This is a classic so who am I review it … but I will :), especially after struggling to complete it. It took me nearly two months to complete reading it and in between I read several other books. The reason it took that long is because so much of it seems to have been … Read more
Amazon Kindlestore would keep prompting me to buy this book, but I didn’t for the longest time. Finally last week I gave in and bought the book. Since we were taking a train trip, I decided to read “The girl on the train” on a train. I am so glad with my decision to buy … Read more
Just completed this page turner ….. “The short drop” is apparently the first novel by Matthew Fitzsimmons and it’s just brilliant. I have managed to read, not speed read, but read 389 pages of this novel in just under two days. I read a couple of pages, last to last night and then the bulk … Read more
This is a must read and kudos to Nidhi Dugar Kundalia for preserving the dying professions in India in ink. I assume that there will be a sequel to it because there are many more professions that are going out of fashion. I completed reading this book a couple of days back. It’s a … Read more
For the past couple of months I have been re-reading Jeffrey Archer’s books – I have been a fan ever since I read “Prodigal daughter” long long back. I stopped reading his books after “Thereby hangs a tale”. Somewhere between “Honour among thieves” and “Thereby hangs a tale” I feel he has either lost that … Read more
I always read any book suggested by my friend Gopal Ranjan as he always finds really good ones. I saw that he had read this book “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova and had shared that it was a must read on Facebook so I bought it just before we left for Mongolia. I read it … Read more
This book by Ray Bradbury was part of a list of 20 must read books so I bought it and am glad I did. For me somehow this book seems to come to the philosophy of “objectivism” as propounded by one of my all time favourite author Ayn Rand. It’s a dark novel that depicts … Read more
This book’s title is misleading. It’s not about violently establishing Hinduism or taking up arms to defend it. Vamsee Juluri is a professor and brings data through his research rather than just his opinions to argue his case. This is a difficult book to read.. It’s almost like sitting in a lecture with Google on … Read more
I loved “The hungry tide” and “The glass palace” both of which I have read fully. I struggled a little bit with “Sea of poppies” and I haven’t yet read “The river of smoke”. I think Amitav Ghosh is a brilliant writer and just “The glass palace” alone makes him the number one comtemporary author. … Read more