{"id":334,"date":"2005-06-03T23:13:41","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=334"},"modified":"2005-06-03T23:13:41","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T18:13:41","slug":"book-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2005\/06\/03\/book-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been infected with, what the blogger<\/strong> <\/a>who infected Yazad <\/a><\/strong>calls, the<\/p>\n

….. intellectual version of venereal disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Charu <\/a><\/strong>has passed it on to me:)<\/p>\n

So here goes.<\/p>\n

Total number of books I own<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

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

Last Book Read:<\/strong>
\nBlink – I really didn’t enjoy this offering from Malcolm Gladwell as much as I enoyed Tipping Point<\/a><\/strong>. 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.
\n
\nFive Books That Mean a Lot to Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

Difficult to say. it keeps changing with time. My current favourites are:<\/p>\n

The Complete Calvin & Hobbes<\/a><\/strong>. A little boy and his pet tiger and their view of an extremely crazy universe.<\/p>\n

Mahabharat <\/strong>– 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.<\/p>\n

Gospel according to Jesus Christ<\/a><\/strong> – the review is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The The God Particle – if the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question <\/a><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Knightfall<\/a><\/strong> 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.
\nMy five Heraldblog<\/a><\/strong>, Kamesh<\/a><\/strong>, pH<\/strong><\/a>, akshay<\/a><\/strong>, and jayadev<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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