The review of this book on my various social feeds had disappointed me, but fortunately, the book didn’t. Broadly, the book is about the forgotten people who are trampled as the world grinds forward on the path of progress. It is everything that Roy writes about in non-fiction, but framed in fiction for a change. Firmly favourited.
If you have any interest at all in speculative fiction, or science fiction in general, just go ahead and buy this book. Eight fantastic stories that cover domains from language to physics and mathematics to theism and more, this is a work of sheer brilliance.
A travel book after a while. I liked how the book takes travel beyond the literal and conventional meaning of the word. There are all kinds of journeys in here – the simple physical movement from one place to another, to the exploration of the self within, “thought to thought”, seeing things in a different light and so on.
Michael S. Gazzaniga Our notion of the mind is a single “me” that consciously acts and reacts on/to stimuli. But a more accurate description would be several modules that work in tandem to define and dictate what we could call the mind/consciousness. A lot of this mind’s activities is dictated by factors that have been […]
Siddhartha Mukherjee “As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” probably best describes this book for me. My understanding of the subject grew manifold after reading this book, but I also realised how little we know! Perhaps the one question we all seek an answer to is “Why are we […]