This is shock­ing! I thought one site was down till I read this story. I hope it gets resolved soon. I can’t access any blogspot blogs as of now… And till then, you can use this URL to access blogspot blogs. From Mutiny.in: “Two sources, one inside the Gov­ern­ment of India and the other kind of […]

Pic­ture this. You’ve got your­self a huge advance on your book. You need to fin­ish it. Quickly. The pub­lish­ers are pound­ing on the door. With the money bags. What do you do? You scurry to your library, pick up some nov­els you really loved read­ing and ran­domly start copy­ing (or get­ting inspired) bits here and there. Besides, you’re only 17! Unfor­tu­nately though for you, sev­eral oth­ers too have read the same book.

It’s been on my read­ing list for a while and I finally man­aged to fin­ish it!

The Kite Run­ner is about two boys Amir and Has­san who grow up in Afghanistan. While Amir is the son of a busi­ness­man, Hassan’s father is a ser­vant to Amir’s father. Yet, they forge a friend­ship when they are really young (they are also nursed by the same woman). Inspite of their close­ness, Amir finds it dif­fi­cult to acknowl­edge Has­san as a friend because of their class dif­fer­ences. Once par­tic­u­lar inci­dent seals their fate and Amir can never rec­on­cile to what con­sti­tutes a rather cow­ardly act.

Just fin­ished this really inter­est­ing travel book called River Dog. I found it most enthralling since it takes a lot to under­take a jour­ney of this nature. Not only is it fraught with dan­gers and risks of all kinds; but the Himalayas, Tibet and Arunachal are not very friendly ter­rains for travel. Mark Shand, the […]

I’m col­lect­ing read­ing mate­r­ial for 2006 and I think I have enough for about half the year. Any sug­ges­tions to add to the list are also welcome!

Despite all my attempts not to buy any­more books, I landed up with five more. This time the book shop came to the office cam­pus. With dis­counts. Now how can any­one resist a good bar­gain? Picked up After­wards (Jaishree Misra), River Dog: A Jour­ney Down the Brahma­pu­tra (Mark Shand), Yadav: A Road­side Love Story (Jill […]

Found a really cool lend­ing library with a pretty good col­lec­tion where you can book online and get deliv­ery at your doorstep (for a small price, but very worth it). I’ve been try­ing to find a library since I got here so I am thrilled to bits! It’s a nice con­cept and this is the first […]