No significant update. Just removing dead links. -Aside-Ages ago, the Intellectual Whores website (now a 404) had given me some solace; but not much hope though. The masterfully written Ladder Theory explains why things are so screwed up; but, yeah, but, so we (whores?) don’t lose hope, there are the ever so entertaining whore avoidance tips. […]
Category: books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
It’s somewhat sad that the Autobiography of Malcolm X is also meant to be a specific political and social message, as well as serve as a brilliant account of the life of a thoughtful and brave leader. X thought he would be dead by the time the book came out, and was also probably a […]
Hardy Boys
From Tic-Tac-Terror (by a Franklin W. Dixon) to Lolita (Nabokov), I’ve collected more books than I have read. But I have read some. It started off with Hardy Boys; and I remember Fenton Hardy’s case always being connected in some way to the Boys’ case. So, during each book, I used to watch out for […]
O Discipline, Where Art Thou?
I read Lapierre and Collins’s “Freedom at Midnight” and am incredibly moved, even sobbing many times during the book, and make a promise to myself that I’ll learn more about India, and esp. the Partition. So, I pick up Sucheta Mahajan’s “India and Partition: the Erosion of Colonial Power in India,” and start it with […]
Shantaram, A romantic take on everything
I love this book because: Its set almost entirely in Bombay. Salaam Bombay. It gives a very heart-felt view of India, Indians, and everything Indian. It reminds me a lot of Godfather (the book). It also reminded me of my first read of Godfather, which, sadly, happened only once. It also reminded me of Harold […]