Naomi Klein One would think that when a disaster happened, everyone would do their best to help the victims. But it turns out that there are many who seek to profit. And such is the greed that sometimes disasters are created so that profits can be made. Naomi Klein calls it disaster capitalism, and this […]
It’s Saturday. The intercom rings at 5AM. D and I both curse, and a 20 second conversation follows on how this had to be a delivery, and why the security is buzzing us when we have agreed on “9 to 9, no calls”! D manages to reclaim some sleep, I can’t. At 7 ish AM, […]
Giulia Enders When you think of it, it’s quite amazing how emotions we might attribute to the mind find metaphors related to another part of the body – ‘gut feel’, ‘butterflies in the stomach’, ‘sh*t your pants’, ‘pit in your stomach’ and so on. The metaphors are based on actual physical sensations, and so on […]
Our last night out in 2023. We bet on the traffic being low on the night before New Year’s eve, and were thankfully right. I had seen the place from the metro, and thought the ambiance was great. And indeed it was. Yuki is on the second floor of a building that gives you a […]
In many ways, the books I read are my mind’s zeitgeist, and naturally the favourites reflect this. This year, the list is along broad lines of History & Culture, Mind & Philosophy, Systems of the World, and Fiction. And with that little prologue, as per tradition – from 2019, 2020, and 2021, and 2022 – we have this year’s list of ten (plus a few 🙈). From the 65 books I read in 2023…
