Category: Books
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Book Review—Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
“The well being of a household depends on selective acts of blindness and deafness” Vivek Shanbhag in Ghachar Ghochar This line captures the essence of the book I am talking about. One cannot blurt out every truth and reality in a house if the family is to stay together as the ‘smallest unit of a society’. […]
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Book Review—Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
I accompanied a friend to the huge Anna centenary library in the heart of Chennai on a cloudy Saturday afternoon. I entered the English literature section which has a mind boggling collection. Somehow I noticed the book “Steppenwolf” within a few minutes of wandering. I had read “Siddhartha” about a year ago and now I […]
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Book Review—Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
“The body was certainly not the Self, nor the play of senses, nor thought, nor understanding, nor acquired wisdom or art with which to draw conclusions and from already existing thoughts to spin new thoughts. No, this world of thought was still on this side, and it led to no goal when one destroyed […]