Category: Books & Reading
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The Radical Grace of Rani Amrit Kaur
I recently finished In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy, and I have been thinking about the Rani of Mandi ever since.
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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…