Finding your swing: Bhagavad Gita’s wisdom on the Golf course in the book “The Legend of Bagger Vance”
One of the reasons why the Bhagavad Gita has such a universal appeal is the setting and atmosphere in which[…]
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Category: Books
“When we cease to understand the world.” – a beautifully conceived literary tour-de-force by Benjamin Labatut.
A few months ago, The New York Times released a list of the top 100 books published in the first[…]
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Gandhi, G.K. Chesterton, and the Writing of “Hind Swaraj”
(Note: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the most prolific writers in history. His collected works run into 100 volumes,[…]
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Fifty years of William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist”. Remembering the book and the movie.
Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the classic horror film “The Exorcist,” written by William Peter Blatty and directed[…]
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Ruminations on AI, and Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s intimate and brilliant memoir chronicling the story behind the emergence of Generative AI.
A few months ago, during one of our daily conversations, my mom asked me out of the blue: “What is[…]
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s beautiful biography of Murthy and Sudha’s eternal love and the founding of Infosys.
It is time someone wrote the love story of Murthy and Sudha, and I am glad that the acclaimed novelist[…]
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Reading Proust.
I am no stranger to lengthy or multi-volume books. I have always enjoyed and found immense satisfaction in books that[…]
Read moreOh! Jerusalem – An attempt at understanding the genesis of the struggle between Israelites and Hamas
To understand the current war between Israel and Hamas, one has to go back in history, not fifty or hundred[…]
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Thoughts on love, the book ” The Devotion of Suspect X” and its film adaptation “Jaane Jaan”, and Paul Erdos, the mathematician – a brief digression.
Love is a strange phenomenon. It is universally recognized, but almost impossible to define and rationalize. Sometimes love materializes in[…]
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An essay triggered by James L Swanson’s riveting book on Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his assassin John Wilkes Booth, and the “Manhunt” that followed.
The words “assassin” and “assassination” are both interesting nouns and a mouthful to articulate. There is a hiss in their[…]
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