I have been infected with, what the blogger who infected Yazad calls, the

….. intellectual version of venereal disease.

And Charu has passed it on to me:)

So here goes.

Total number of books I own: Never really counted. But 6 tall book shelfs are groaning under the weight of the books! Every month i add a few more. My mother threatens to revolt every so often and we sell pulp that all of us have purchased. But, I usually see it as clearing up of shelf space to put new books.

Last book I bought: Ek nahin 4 books! Patrick French – Liberty or Death. I gave my last copy to KD.Bimal Jalan on the Future of India, Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and Adi Deo Arya Devta – a panoramic view of Tribal Hindu cultural interface by Sandhya Jain.

Last Book Read:
Blink – I really didn’t enjoy this offering from Malcolm Gladwell as much as I enoyed Tipping Point. Though i enjoyed the bit about how decision making becomes more imprecise and more likely to fail with more data. In most cases less is more.

Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me

Difficult to say. it keeps changing with time. My current favourites are:

The Complete Calvin & Hobbes. A little boy and his pet tiger and their view of an extremely crazy universe.

Mahabharat – various authors. The ones that i have read most frequently are by Kamala Subramaniam and C.Rajagopalachari. The human drama, the slow spiral down to violence, a war in which less than a dozen warriors survive, the story of Draupadi the nemesis of the Kauravas.

Gospel according to Jesus Christ – the review is here.

The The God Particle – if the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question by Leon Lederman- the first science book that i read – and I was hooked. There is this incredible three way imaginary – imaginary because Democretes has been dead for just over 2000 years:) – conversation between Lederman, Demorcretes and God on the nature of the universe. Lederman is a Noble Prize winner for physics and he explains the search for the ultimate particle.

Knightfall series of Batman Graphic Novels. Dark, moody, pshychotic,violent and on the edge – and this is just Batman. Brilliantly drawn, this set of graphic novels that includes Knightfall, Knightsend and Knightsquest.
My five Heraldblog, Kamesh, pH, akshay, and jayadev.