Harini Calamur's Writings
Currently re reading an old favourite. Tranlated by Sir Richard F Burton(the explorer not the actor), and with an introduction by A.S.Byatt Scheherazade’s attempt to save her life and the lives of all the eligible women in the kingdom by weaving a…
My current read is Karen Armstrong’s History of God . Theogony has always fascinated me. So has how Gods are born, grow unfashionable and then die out. . It is almost a peek back into society and figuring out how society evolved…
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince : finished the first reading last night. Great fun. Will read it again over the weekend! JD and I shared the book.
From Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, a para summarizing Einstein’s three papers – that made the scientific world sit up and say, ” why didn’t i think of that” The first won its author a Nobel Prize and explained the…
This from Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, my current read – a quote from biologist B.S.Haldane: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.†Have just begun the book. I am hooked…
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…
Jose Saramago is probably one of the greatest writers of our times, and the The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is one of the finest books that I have ever read. It is the story of Jesus – who is not the…
I came across a great repository for on-line books. The section that was the most interesting was banned books The who’s who of writers has ended up getting banned at sometime in their life or the other. Ulysses, Cantebury Tales, The Arabian…