Books

You dont open a book, you open a mind…

Yesterday, i visited Crossword and got gifted book to myself :D As i have been really lukka all this days, spent most of my time on books..

List of books i completed till now with intended expert comments of mine

1) Who is John Galt ? Finally finally i took courage to know the answer and i completed the unfinished task of  Atlas Shrugged. It took me really month’s n month’s to complete it.

2) First Sci fi book for me Enders Game . its amazing  and different. Some1 is also making movie based on it. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/ )

3) 1984 :   Famous for Negative UTOPIA. The imagination of British Author have portrayed such world which bound to make you think…ofcourse in negative way and also brings the importance of sense of Freedom….in real world.

4) Impressed by 1984, i started searching for his other work and read Animal Farm that too Ebook…Its about oppressed revolt back for freedom something similar as in RDB, but the ending message is crust of all politics.

5) Kane & Abel : Kahani Poori Filmi hain …a typical bollywood story….Archer has knack for storytelling.

6) Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy: Dont Panic…title speaks for itself. All iitians will love it….I loved the part. Benzy says ”Now Earth creature, the situation we have in effect is this. we have, as you know, been more or less running your planet(Earth) for the last ten million years in order to find this wretched thing called the Question to Ultimate Answer” 42? Why

Well, enough of expert comments. I got many books lying around me and better i lay my hands on them. Next in line are (Not sequential ofcourse)

- Joseph Heller, Catch 22 : was reading it for a while..then ditched

- Freakonomis – also in middle of it.

- Paulo Coelho, Veronica decides to die

- Stephen Hawking, A brief history of time

- Isaac Asimov, Gold ….again Science fiction..

- Arundhati Roy, the god of small things

- Mark Haddon, The curious incident of dog in night time

- Khaled Hosseini, the kite runner – this book is SPECIAL to me…Thanks for it Anish.

Also want to read (Pass me on if you got any)

- Vikram Seth, Suitable boy

- The Glass palace

- The Goal – Completed it.

- Jack welch, Winning 

- Upamanyu chatterjee,  English, August

so, bye 4 now…i need time to read them all.

 UPDATE:

- Finished “witch of portobello” …maha gyaan !!!

- in Middle of God of small things & Glass Palace…

- Looking forward to read ” Shantaram” & ” RED”

Banyan tree Retreat

When was the last time the only sound you heard was that of your heart beating?? 

Unable to listen to the sound of wholeness amidst the clamor of our lives, we escape to a place where we can focus on the sounds from within.  So, i ended up in Banyan tree retreat, Jagjit Singh Live in Concert….where i caught a fleeting glimpse, a tantalizing flash of what it must be to feel this surging sense of oneness with surrounding.

Ghajal maesto Jagjit singh is name in himself and needs no introduction. The ghajal legend…words are not there to describe his sensational work and needless to say anything about his melliflous voice…Simply One of its kind.

An evening of medleys & jugalbandis:

Aag ka kya hian, pal do pal main lagti hian…

bhoojte bhoojte ek jamana lagata hian..

tera cheara kitna suhana lagata hain

tere aage chaand purana lagata hian

Feeling high after attending the concert…this post is Just like that for the feeling of happiness , for the sense of aura created by music. I know its all unstructured and not linked…but, i am lost.

not to digress further, i will end the post from where i started…Listen to your being, it is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice.  It does not shout at you. And if you are a little silent, you will start feeling your way.

Or just search for places of retreat :P  All this are just reason for attending the concert…as i have already attended the same twice before.