A thought provoking book

Narcissus and Goldmund by the nobel laureate Herman Hesse has as its theme, the mother/father, masculine/feminine imagery....a theme, I am told, has been a hall...read more

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Powerful idea gone astray

I should really be indebted to John Gribbin for his book 'In search of Schrodinger's Cat'. If not for that book, I would have chucked Alice and her quantum expl...read more

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Hope and Despair

A fine balance, Rohinton Mistry's most popular work till date, is set in an unnamed Indian city in 1975...with the hugely unpopular 'State of Internal Emergency...read more

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Poignant Characters

Tales from Firozsha Baag, though a lesser known work by Rohinton Mistry, still captures with vividity, the rich and complex patterns of life of lower middle cla...read more

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A mathematical saga

Having read and appreciated a few layman books on physics in general and quantum physics in particular, I was looking for a good book with a little bit of 'comp...read more

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The 5 best books I ever read

1. The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh - A story subtly told.with endearing and authentic characters.a young boy growing up in Calcutta and then in London. Violence(...read more
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A beautifully worded book

Midnight's Children is a work of fiction...but subtly undetached from the Indian Reality. Itz about a thousand and one children who share their hour of birth wi...read more

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