For the love of stories: confessions of an accidental feminist by Wendy Doniger
A quick and easy read. Interesting and captures the academic world of an earlier era nicely! Recommended!!
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Claude Markovits’ The un-Gandhian Gandhi
A very interesting book! Of course, Gandhi can never be un-topical I always find him relevant for what we are going through at any moment!! A very good read and strongly recommended!!!
D R Nagaraj’s Allama Prabhu and the shaiva imagination: translated from Kannada by N S Gundur
A wonderful read especially for somebody like me who had only heard the vachanas sung by Mallikarjun Mansur, Basavaraj Rajguru and Venkatesh Kumar but never read any of them or the other medieval Kannada literary works. I also did not realise that there are echoes of and conversations with Abhinavagupta and Bhratrihari in the [ ]
Mathematics today: twelve informal essays
This book is from about 50 years ago and hence, for me, reading it now, it is mathematics fifty years ago. But that does not reduce the value of the book even a bit. If anything, seeing some of the prescient things said in the book, such as the following about computers, in this [ ]
The rings of saturn by W G Sebald
Excellent read. Strongly recommended!
Geoff Dyer’s Out of sheer rage: Wrestling with D H Lawrence
A very funny and very readable book. Strongly recommended!
Heart the lover by Lily King
Since I loved reading King s Euphoria and Writers Lovers, obviously, I did not want to give this one a miss. As usual, I was not disappointed. The writing, especially in part I, is so smooth and wonderful. The book deserves all the praise heaped on it. Strongly recommended!
Peter Heehs’ Sri Aurobindo: a brief biography
A must-read! Who knew, for example, Aurobindo s middle name is Ackroyd! This is also a very different from usual biographies in the sense that the second part explicitly deals with the inner life and yoga practices of Aurobindo as much as any biographer has access to such things through letters and diary entries of [ ]
Stephen McCauley’s You only call when you’re in trouble
A good read. This was a recommendation for January by Maureen Corrigan a couple of years ago (but works well for this January too!)
Katabasis by R F Kuang
I like campus novels. This is a very unique campus novel and is fun!