Shantaram

25Mar09

Its time to do something on my blog other than changing the themes around ….So here I come on my blog again. I think I’m more of a free-lancer at heart than a committed blogger, I dont want to write when I dont feel like, and I dont want to feel bad about it either. [...]

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The Pillars of the Earth

27Aug08

This post serves a dual purpose. First, It does the post that Manpreet had tagged me with, a long time ago, and second it reviews the book, not in an exhaustive way though.
Tag: Take up the book closest at hand, open page 123 and write the lines six, seven and eight.
Normally I keep the book [...]

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Tags: Books, Cathedral, Ken Follett, Kingsbridge, tag, The Pillars of the Earth

Three Cups of Tea

23Jun08

I thought (and argued) Life could never be as interesting as fiction. But after reading Three Cups of Tea, I’m afraid I’d have to say I was wrong. It describes how a single person can change the world, yes that isn’t an overstatement. How a single person can change the world.
It’s about Greg Mortenson, a [...]

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Tags: Books, CAI, central asia institute, education, greg mortenson, pakistan, Review, three cups of tea

The God of Small Things

28Jul06

I completed the book i always wanted to read. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, a semi biography of a syrian christian family set in the village of Ayemenen in Kerala, India. Winner of the Booker prize.

The story starts with the unison of two separated twins (two-egged twins) and then lurches back and [...]

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