Preface: Every 2 months, we buy 7 books. 6 that I choose, and one for D. 3 fiction, 3 non-fiction. From experience, 6 is my balance between Tsundoku (piling up without reading) and abibliophobia (running out of books to read). In keeping with the pattern, the list below has 6 books that I enjoyed this year, from […]
The books I really enjoy are the ones that capture and articulate a fundamental insight. This is one such. Tim Wu studies the history of information and communication empires, and illustrates a predictable path they follow – he calls it The Cycle. The biggest game changer we have seen in modern times is the internet, and the question he seeks to answer through this book is “which is mightier : the radicalism of the Internet or the inevitability of the Cycle?” An absolutely fascinating read.
A really good book if you want to get an understanding of the system of the world. It was published in 1997 and from how its projections have panned out, it is also a prediction machine. But its beauty lies in the explanations behind these predictions, and that makes it equally relevant for the future too.
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.
Amitav Ghosh Where do I begin? Let’s start with stating the simple – I loved this book. I haven’t read such a poignantly moving book in quite a while! With that out of the way, the story actually begins in Mandalay (Burma) in 1885, during the last days of the Konbaung Dynasty. The British forcibly […]