Gurcharan Das I’d liked Gurcharan Das’ “India Unbound” (that was a long while back, I haven’t read his later works) and I’m generally a sucker for all things epic, so buying this was a given. The blurb created quite the hype for me by stating that the book “shows us how we can come to […]
Pico Iyer One of my favourite authors writing about a human being who has intrigued me from the time I read Siddhartha. It didn’t disappoint at all! What is it like to live, practice, preach a faith while facing oppression from one of the most powerful countries in the world? Even as Tibet becomes more […]
Paul Theroux Whenever I take a vacation, I arrive as a tourist and like to think that I leave at least partly converted into a traveler. I am forever envious of travelers, many of whose journeys serve as a purpose in itself. This book is an excellent little guide to what the author mentions in […]
Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy continues right from where she left off (actually she never has) in The Algebra of Infinite Justice. This time, contexts and facts get repeated in essays, and that might put you off, but that should not take away from the messages. An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, published in 2004, a […]
Thích Nhất Hạnh The story of the Buddha, through a couple of narratives – one that of the cowherd turned monk Svasti, and the other, probably that of Buddha himself, which moves back and forth to also tell us about Siddhartha’s early life, before and during his enlightenment. The book also lays a lot of […]