Infinite Fall

Let me make myself clear. I am a fanboy.
Infinite Jest is no mean achievement. It’s not just another great work of fiction. It is something else. It is carefully and laboriously constructed, with every sentence crying to be read again, and again. It’s not easy to pick up this book from the shelf and start [...]

Book Tag

Tagged by Rads.
The rules:
Pick up the nearest book.
Open to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you
Bibbo stood wondering for a few moments. Then, without thinking about the Raja of Marh, she closed the book to take it up to Saeeda Bai. She walked up [...]

Revisiting Busybee

Do you remember the late Behram Contractor? No? Or will you remember if I say, Busybee?
I was not a keen follower of his columns but I read about him and later his columns, from the collection published as Busybee. I remember, Arjun was the one who introduced them to me. He had all the books. [...]

Is there anything called Reader’s Block?

If there is one thing I miss doing, its reading! Its been eight months in this country, new school, Masters and I just have not read a book all these months. And I am not talking about Thomas Cormen, Tanenbaum and the Eastern Economic Editions.
This is not me. I consider reading to be the most [...]

Please read….

“In the process, she has woven her own magical spell over millions. Now that she has laid down her wand, we can only be grateful that we were here to enjoy her very special magic show. Even as we say a bittersweet goodbye to the loveable boy wizard, we can take with us what Harry [...]

gen·ius /ˈdʒinyəs/[jeen-yuhs]- noun

1.
an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart.

2.
a person having such capacity.

3.a person having an extraordinarily high intelligence rating on a psychological test, as an IQ above 140.
4. Joanne Kathleen Rowling – a living example
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

I finally got my hands on the book I wanted to read for a long time now.I had read rave reviews about this one, and it being about and around Bombay, I was only happy to have finally read it.Suketu Mehta did exactly what I did about a month back.He revisited his most favorite place [...]