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 had posted this on Jan 23rd and for the past two days Netaji is back in the news … watching Arnab debating about the files and I just wish Sharmistha, President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter is valiantly trying to defend the CONgress. She seems rattled … wonder how rattled the CON leadership team is :(. … Read more
It’s coincidental that I finished reading one of the best books written about Netaji just a day before his 118th birthday. The author, Anuj Dhar has to be complimented for his research into the mystery of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s life. The twists and turns are fascinating. It seems amply clear that Netaji didn’t die … Read more
When Narayanan mentioned about this book by John Steinbeck, I realised that there was so much to read and so many authors that I have missed completely !! The name John Steinbeck seemed familiar but none of his books rang a bell. I immediately bought “Travels with Charley” and completed reading on New year day, … Read more
The book got published in 2012 and Kabir told me about it. I somehow didn’t get the book and finally just before the run up to the general elections I picked it up. Am glad I did because it made me vote the way I did :):). I knew Tavleen Singh, the journalist, but didn’t … Read more
I bought “The Cuckoo’s calling” by Robert Galbraith much before I knew it was J.K. Rowling writing under that pseudonym. I never managed to read it for quite some time but the minute I figured out it was written by J.K. Rowling, I read it :):). I am a fan of her writing and so … Read more
Milton was blind and nearly 300 hundred years ago he wrote these two lines – “The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.” Just brilliant and probably a great truth. Look around us, everyone reading this blog is certainly privileged – you have access … Read more
I just completed reading “A tale for the time being” written by Ruth Ozeki. While the style of writing in first person as she experienced it all, is not very novel, the connection to the Tsunami and other recent events and the constant back and forth between the old and new, is very fascinating. I … Read more
I am a book worm, have been since the time I could read. My special love has been fiction for the longest time, till I met Krishnan and then I started reading self-help, biographies, etc. Then once I moved into senior management, leadership positions, my interest shifted completely to the leadership and management books. I … Read more
I completed reading this amazing book “The difficulty of being good” by Gurcharan Das a couple of weeks back. It’s going to be difficult to summarize the book, but am going to pick ten statements that are worth meditating over. This book has to be read and re-read and re-read for the meaning to really … Read more
I started reading this book just before the New year called “Savor: Mindful eating, Mindful life”. It is written by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lillian Cheung. The central theme of the book is to live our lives mindfully, eating, moving and breathing with mindfulness. So to some it may seem like … Read more