Category: Books & Reading
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1984 in 2020: A Must Read
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” The masterwork, 1984, was published in July 1949, almost 7 decades ago. George Orwell was already a literary star; however, nobody envisaged the lastingness his work is going to have over time. Like a lot of people, I read this book…
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How to Pursue Deep Work?
Nobel Prize winner J. K. Rowling was famously absent from social media while she was writing the Harry Potter novels. In 2009, her staff opened a Twitter account, and for one and a half years her only tweet read- “This is really me, but you won’t be hearing from me often, I am afraid, as…
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Reading is not a Part of a to-do List
I remember a friend of mine telling me how he manages to read 5 books per weekend. That kept me wondering how that was possible. I tried speed reading but failed. I tried book skimming but failed. After self-loathing and quick failing for a couple of weekends, I did a quick Google search. This led…
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The Story of Transformation: The Forty Rules of Love
Every true love and friendship is a story of an unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough. It was a late afternoon rendezvous over coffee of summer of 2019 when I spotted this book at Hiteshree’s place, a dear friend and fellow literature…
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing, in her extraordinary and compelling more-than-memoir, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, explores how hard it is to make an honest and genuine connection with another human being. The author portrays an intimate and personal portrait of loneliness by delving into the New York art culture. However, don’t misjudge…