Simply books

I dont know what but, sparing all possible time on books from last few days. Be it nightout or whatever..i m trying to complete them for the sake of completing like academics/todo work.

Something definitely wrong this days. Still in insomniac state that too on any book i just lay my hands on and just keeping other booked books as it is.

• Nicholas taleb “Black Swan”
• Herman hesse “Siddhartha”
• Paulo Coelho “Brida”
• Paulo Coelho “The devil & miss Prym”
• Sudha Murty “How to teach a grandmother”

Visited Landmark last friday to get some history books….i am desparately looking for Bipin Chandra’s “India after independece”

Independence day reads

I know i have been pretty late in posting it, it was in my outbox and simply forgot to post on The Day, anyways as said in old cliché its better late than never. So far i ve completed only one. Hey, do not forget to lend me one, if you have any of them

A collection of titles to remember the sixty years gone by… (Courtesy: THE HINDU)

The 60th year celebration of Indian independence is an occasion to browse through tomes that takes you back in time. Penguin India celebrates the spirit of freedom through a collection of titles. The list has more than 30 titles that have already been published; some of them will be released as revised editions.

Here are some of the titles:

* Vishnu’s crowded temple: India since the great rebellion by Maria Misra

* The Great Partition: The making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

* India since 1947: The independent years by Gopa Sabharwal

* The Penguin book of modern Indian speeches by Rakesh Batabyal

* The ultimate India quiz book by Derek O’Brien

* The great Indian middle class by Pavan K. Varma

* India 2020: A vision for the new millennium by A.P.J. Abdul kalam

* India unbound by Gurcharan Das

* The argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen

* India: From the midnight to the millennium and beyond by Shashi Tharoor

* The Elephant, the tiger and the cellphone: Reflections on India in the 21st century by Shashi Tharoor

* India after independence by Bipin Chandra

* Being Indian: The truth about why the 21st century will be India’s by Pavan K. Varma

* India in slow motion by mark Tully

* The idea of India by Sunil Khilnani

* Out of God’s oven: Trav a fractured land by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivasta

* Holy warriors: A journey into the heart of Indian fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes

* Everybody loves a good drought by P. Sainath

* No full stops in India by Mark Tully : Through it Its Introduction simply rocks .Ummm

* The other side of silence: Voices from the partition of India by Urvashi Butalia

* The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru

* Mohandas: A true story of a man, his people and his empire by Rajmohan Gandhi

* The Indians, portrait of a people by Sudhir Kakar and Katharina Kakar

* India’s struggle for independence by Bipin Chandra

* Brushing up the years: A cartoonist’s history of India by R.K. Laxman

* The age of Kali by William Dalyrymple

Chords and Strings

Disclaimer: you will be reading stuff which is genuinely arbit & engrossingly gross. This post is entirely for my sadistic tripti ki prapti ke liye…… aage aapki shraddha hian !! PS, there are no chords n strings attached..i dont want to care about logical flow of what and why i write…No filtering.

Past, whole week spent completing laundry list of monthly customs of bill payments and many more.  with extra added onus of finding new cook as we fired our cook cum maid and simply added pain. The cribu inside me is coming out

phew….today, successfully completed all tasks.

-Posted Rakhi and wrote hand written letters after ages…wow, thats good feeling. the funniest part was i was not getting words what to write..and see here, i am having tons n tons of crap stuff to write while blogging or writing diary:D
-Paid all bills that also include some fire fighting with Electricity dept Boss i must confess i am getting proficient month after month in all this stupid chores
-Finally, bought my new laptop…just shipped it to masi’s place. Thanks to masi, kots & vibh for helping me out. A very BIG THANKS to Irshad…dude…i do need it:)
- Hurray, had hair cut etc etc. Also completed long pending list of shopping…all who knows me surely knows my fetish for none other than ******* ? well,  hint is first thing i bought when i got my first salary???…none other than shoes n slipper that also not one or 2, but 3 pairs.
- Oh, forgot to mention, i got my scooty number printed
- Found new cook & maid. Got internet fixed @hom, replied to emails and orkut scraps and made required ISD, STD phone calls. Sorry dost log, Happy friendship day!! Belated one..i missed you all. Can’t help it, few chords n strings still exist

Last Friday, partied @ Dublin and whole weekend leisurely spent only sleeping & reading The GOAL. I simply loved the book. Yesterday, i explored new restaurant ‘Barbeque Nation’. Ok, I got new place to treat …The sad part was I already had dinner and suddenly my team decides to party. Being new to team, they tried to rag me….sad’ can they??? 

Signing off by mentioning last entry of my laundry list, .that’s Blogging. I am DONE

Get Set Go!!

Finally i started…..

lets see how long it continues…!!