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Chasing sunsets

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Gabriel García Márquez!

If you have read him or not, you need to read this article. 7 mins well spent! 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/06/the-challenge-gabriel-garcia-marquez?utm_source=linkedin&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social

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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

BOOK QUOTES

Hello lovely people,

So here I'm starting a post with a book quote from the book I'm currently reading. You too can add yours further. Can't wait to read all the lovely quotes coming in my way. Also, don't forget to mention the name of the book and author!

Book : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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Book : Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

BOOK QUOTES

Hello lovely people,

So here I'm starting a post with a book quote from the book I'm currently reading. You too can add yours further. Can't wait to read all the lovely quotes coming in my way. Also, don't forget to mention the name of the book and author!

Book : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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Capitalism in short

knew a guy in high school who pronounced lowercase omega (ω) “weta” like theta (cause it’s greek) but with a ‘w’ (cause it looks like a ‘w’). we couldn’t stop him cause he was better at math than everyone else

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Book : The Merry Go Round by W S Maughan

BOOK QUOTES

Hello lovely people,

So here I'm starting a post with a book quote from the book I'm currently reading. You too can add yours further. Can't wait to read all the lovely quotes coming in my way. Also, don't forget to mention the name of the book and author!

Book : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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BOOK QUOTES

Hello people,

So here I'm starting a post with a book quote from the book I'm currently reading. You too can add yours further. Can't wait to read all the lovely quotes coming in my way. Also, don't forget to mention the name of the book and author!

Book : The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

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READING LIST

When 2021 started, I gifted myself with books to be read this year. And before I could finish all what I had bought I kept buying more new books (I guess, the biggest crisis readers are yet to come over). Gladly I present you my reading for near future.

P.S. This list is not exhaustive because we are only in March and look at me :P

From left to right

The Battle of Belonging by Shashi Tharoor

The Hindu Way by Shashi Tharoor

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

How I Taught my Grandmother to Read and other stories by Sudha Murthy

Underground by Haruki Murakami

The Shiva Trilogy by Amish

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AZAADI FREEDOM FASCISM FICTION

The recent book, a compilation of essays and articles, written by Arundhati Roy is a good read. The book somehow tries to be the voice of the unheard. It certainly brings out how difficult it could get for a section of society if government becomes biased towards them in a democracy.

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THE WHITE TIGER

I am writing a review after a while and I cannot express how much I missed it.

I finished reading freshly adapted into a film, 'The White Tiger' by Arvinda Adiga. This book got published on 2008 and also won booker's prize award. Not surprised, the film also got nominated for Oscars. Feel free to read the review, there are no spoilers :)

Genre : Crime, Fiction

Author : Aravind Adiga

Meet Balram Halwai, servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer...

Balram halwai, himself, takes you on a journey with him from darkness to light. How, he born and raised up in a village in India, half baked, changed his destiny. The book speaks at level, starting from darkness to the very top. It tells you what it means to be a loyal and honest servant how it could mean nothing at all. As it could be gussed, this book has so much realism in respect to society, politics, humanity and India that it makes almost impossible to keep this book down.

Although the book is a work of fiction but it speaks volumes of truth. It tells you the true nature of India with its poor and helpless. The manipulation of politics by the people in power, how poor suffer each day and how things are still the same provokes angst. But also at the same time, that how we all are in the same rooster coop and it's only a matter of time since one of us breaks the coop and go away.

The metaphors used all along will give you chills to your bone. The way author tries to talk with its reader via each and every metaphor used in the book creates an everlasting impact. It deals with human emotions, the relationship of a servant with his master, how intimate they could get and how it could mean nothing to the latter and everything to the former. It depicts inhumanity when riches try to play with their money and power and humanity when people from darkness tries to make their wrongs right.

Turn of events that took place somehow made me wonder what was right and what wasn't. From Munna to Balram Halwai to Ashok Sharma, the journey of a poor class driver to a successful entrepreneur and the choices he made, were they right? But then, events that led him to make his choices were they right? I believe, everything is in a loop and everytime we try to understand it we reach from where we started.

Well that was my attempt at amateur metaphor, but this is what this book does to you. A must read if you haven't! The movie is streaming on Netflix.

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If you ever wish to know someone or tell someone about you, in depth. then heres life hack for you. 

Buy a book, you like the most (paperback) and give it to someone you wish to know, then ask them to make notes in the book itself while reading it, as in what they think about a particular incident, or character and their views about the book in general. Ask them to write everything down in the book as they progress with it and you could read their notes later and see what ideology and beliefs they have. 

Or do it vice versa, write your thoughts and gift it to someone you like. :)

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an author i love just tweeted about how “big joy and small joy are the same” and how she was just as content the other night eating chocolate and cuddling her dog as she was on her Big Trip to new york and honestly. i think that’s it. this morning i was listening to an audiobook while baking shortbread in my joggers and i realised i really didn’t care what Big Things happened in my future as long as i could keep baking and reading at the weekend and maybe that is the kind of bar we have to set to guard ourselves against disappointment. just appreciate and cherish the mundane stuff and see everything else as a bonus.

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Unpopular opinion, but Wuthering Heights too need a family tree.

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It’s easy to hunger. One day, a night And there you are, Sunlight between fingers, And you looking in Trees. Birds are Striking fruit, An almond open Like a woman’s love, And a single feather Rocks downward in the air. I’m hungry now.

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Desire

Gary Soto  (B.1952)

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Graphic - Salvador Dalí  1904-1989

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No matter how much Haruki Murakami I read, it's never going to be enough.

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Sad Boi hours ft. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

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NORWEGIAN WOOD

When he hears her favorite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

Author : Haruki Murakami

Genre : Fiction, Novel

From the first chapter itself, I bet, you cannot keep the book down. I love how events take place in the book, unpredictable and unknowingly, like life. The way the book kept on going it only made me more curious to know what happens next, as if I am living the life of the narrator with him.

It brings you distinct and real lives of people. Every character has divergent and significant theory of living of their own which makes the whole plot compelling. The idea of love is portrayed through these characters and each one is unquestionably justified. I love how Murakami presents you with different ideologies of men and women.

When I finished reading it, it took me a moment to be content. My immediate response was, how could he finish the book like that, but such is life.

The way Murakami describes a set-up is beyond words. He somehow makes you a part of the whole thing and gives you an everlasting effect. It made me look closely to things which are presently happening. To connect myself with my surroundings, to see myself as a part of the universe and that I am not alone. It has given me much deeper sense of belongingness. 

All the heavy things that took place in the book left me to be more considerate of other’s silent yet violent struggles and battles. The book brilliantly puts forward the idea of accepting not being normal is normal. It is okay to put yourself first for the benefit of yourself and others. It would compel you to be honest and true to others, to cherish and take proud in who you are.