Most of us have a couple of everyday lives – the work life where we sport a genial smile, own a few versions of a fake laugh perhaps, and wear ironed trousers; the home life where we lose our keys in the depths of our couch, leave the remote control in the fridge, and wear … Continue reading I have lived a thousand lives
The Germ I remember once reading in a book called “The Coming of Bill” by P.G. Wodehouse, the funniest, most naïve description of a “germ” as imagined by a child, William Bannister Winfield. Following is the excerpt: The door opened slowly. A head insinuated itself into the room, furtively, as if uncertain of its welcome. … Continue reading The Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistant Microbes
An object will be in a state of uniform motion until something external affects it, said Newton. If you open the box, you might have killed the cat, said Schrodinger. But then Murphy came along and said “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. If nothing messes with the normal proceedings of your daily … Continue reading The Senseless Seven
I recently watched a Star Wars anthology series, called Rogue One. Thoughts can come from anywhere, and here’s one that sprung up during the movie, when a blind Force-believer dies, and his atheist (for want of a non-existent word for people who don’t believe in the Force) aide now starts believing in the Force … Continue reading Oh My God!
This, being my first ever blog post, is a concept close to my heart. Something I regularly observe. A perspective of how our intellectual standing is left to the society for determination, and about how we have been conditioned to overlook the role played by unawareness. Knowledge, information, understanding, are all almost everyday keywords if … Continue reading The Importance of What We Don’t Know
Wizarding School: Castelobruxo, BrazilPrompt: Read a book that was translated into your languageFormat: Audiobook (Libby - San Mateo Public Library) If there was a book I would need a hundred years to understand, it is this. This book is the epitome of all thing brilliant, bizarre, deeply sad, and exhilarating at the same time. I … Continue reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A Review
Wizarding School: Koldovstoretz, RussiaPrompt: Read a book related to a serpentFormat: Audiobook (Libby – San Mateo Public Library) I have not read a YA (Young Adult) book since I was a teenager and I picked this one up just to keep things diverse this year for the book challenge. While I am certain I will not be reading YA … Continue reading The Serpent King – A Review
Wizarding School: Uagadou, UgandaPrompt: Read a book where a character follows a dreamFormat: Audiobook (Libby - San Mateo Public Library) My tryst with picking up books that I should have read long ago but didn't, got me to pick up Of Mice and Men this year. I suppose many of you already know this heartbreaking story of George … Continue reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – A Review
Wizarding School: Uagadou, UgandaPrompt: Read a book with a symbol on the coverFormat: Hardcover (Book of the Month) Science fiction, while extremely interesting, borders on vague to me. While I can stomach as much fantasy as you may throw at me, science fiction is not so friendly to deal with. Especially because I am a … Continue reading Recursion by Blake Crouch – A Review
Wizarding School: Koldovstoretz, RussiaPrompt: Read a book tied to your rootsFormat: Kindle Set in Chennai, India, this book follows the lives of two bibliowomen - Neelambari Adigal and Kayalveli Anbuchelvan who own an antiquarian bookstore called Biblio in Adyar. The other protagonists of the book are collectors Nallathambi Whitehead and Arcot Templar, frenemies from the … Continue reading The Book Hunters of Katpadi by Praveen Sebastian: A Review
I have always been an avid reader, but mostly by just picking up books recommended by my favorite people, or about subjects and scenarios that interest me. While that is working quite well for me, this year in the beginning of this new decade, I decided to attempt a full-fledged reading challenge. Mainly because my … Continue reading My 2020 Reading Challenge
This is for all of you who care about the food you eat, are worried about where it comes from, and are concerned about the people who grow them. I currently live in Northeast USA, and recently, grocery shopping has me perplexed. A lot of food products in the common grocery stores I buy from … Continue reading The GMO Melee
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