Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell My rating: 2 of 5 stars In Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell has attempted to answer why some of our encounters with strangers go wrong. It was really telling that the stranger-encounters he’d picked for this book are mostlyContinueContinue reading “Talking to Strangers – A Review”
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My Romance Reads of 2020
I have been in the mood for light romances for the past few months and I’ve been trying to pick the best ones available on Kindle Unlimited. While some of these are full on, steamy romances, some lean a bit towards drama and thriller. Read on to find out which of these need to be on your to-read list.
The Emperor of All Maladies – A Review
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting thatContinueContinue reading “The Emperor of All Maladies – A Review”
The Great Hedge of India – A Review
The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People by Roy Moxham My rating: 5 of 5 stars “When I had first started my search for the Customs Hedge, I had been looking for a folly, a harmless piece of English eccentricity. It had been a shock to findContinueContinue reading “The Great Hedge of India – A Review”
The Argumentative Indian – A Review
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen My rating: 4 of 5 stars Published during the decade of rising communal violence, every essay in this book urges Indians to figure out an identity that is not rooted in their religion. Most Indians have a largely black and white attitudeContinueContinue reading “The Argumentative Indian – A Review”
Fault Lines – A Review
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan My rating: 4 of 5 stars The crisis The global recession that hit in 2008 happened as a result of the “risky” housing loans provided by the US Government to their poor. The house prices rose, the lenders defaulted and theContinueContinue reading “Fault Lines – A Review”
How Much Should a Person Consume – A Review
How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States by Ramachandra Guha My rating: 4 of 5 stars There is a stigma attached to grown-up people who care too much about the environment. Once, when I was 15, my school friends and I were riding our bicycles back to our homes.ContinueContinue reading “How Much Should a Person Consume – A Review”