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Views on Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
I took up this book few months ago and have been reading it in intervals. Finally I read Part-3 of the book which captions itself as “Starting Anyway”. In second part of the book “Magical Thinking” Naomi Klein had a … Continue reading
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Pseudo-/Liberal?
Reading diverse literature, with varying points of view but emanating from a moral universe that is basically decent, is one way of challenging your beliefs. And when they do get challenged, it is an uncomfortable but important place to be … Continue reading
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Tales of Caution for the times of Big Data and Machine Learning
“Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future.” Cathy O’Neil A good ( meaning smart) title for a book can be an important factor that drives me to take it up for reading. The last book … Continue reading
Taliban Cricket Club
Does the title seem sensational? Even I thought so. Maybe this seemingly oxymoron of a title made me pick up the book with this title. Also, the author of the book must have known that such a title would stir … Continue reading
The daunting genius of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez died yesterday, at 87. As he would have said, time puts things in their place. This is no eulogy to him- I am too small to be eulogizing him. Small in the literary sense of his intimidating … Continue reading
Reading “Spartacus” – The original gladiator
Spartacus. I strongly recommend it as a book you must read, and at the earliest opportunity. Irrespective of what your reading inclinations have been, this one is an account of human struggle that every one of us ought to … Continue reading
Drag reading “Fishing in Utopia”
Now that I have read it, I must admit I am left disappointed. This is one of those few books that I searched amply, and when I got hold of it was thrilled and began reading. Fishing in Utopia, by … Continue reading
Sophie’s World, a world philosophy tour
The purpose of philosophy, if one call so would in its simplest expression to enable our minds to remain open, encourage us to question everything and motivate us to doubt everything and to be engaged in a constant process of … Continue reading
Reading Carl Sagan’s Contact
Reading Carl Sagan’s science fiction work Contact, put me back into the mode of insatiable awe for the Universe, that seemed to have gotten sedentary under the burden of conventional observations and the so called daily wisdom, for a while … Continue reading
Ideas are Immortal 