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…
Continue readingSuzy Q
Now that the Whitefield Metro is up and running, I cannot whine about traffic, and we can broaden our horizons. And that’s how we landed at a place we’ve been hearing of, for quite a while. Suzy Q, all the way across the world at Vasant Nagar, but only a 5 minute walk from the […]
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion “We never know we go,—when we are goingWe jest and shut the door;Fate following behind us bolts it,And we accost no more.” ~ Emily Dickinson Death and illness is around us, and as we grow older, even more so. Or maybe we become even more conscious of it. And yet, it is as […]
Opinion poles
A few months ago, D and I were talking about something at work making me angry. Since Yoda has said that it is fear that leads to anger, and is the path to the dark side, I needed to figure out the root of that anger, and then understand the fear. I knew it wasn’t […]
Scale
Geoffrey West I am quite a fan of patterns. It is difficult to look around and not believe that there is some grand order in the scheme of things. But it becomes even more difficult when one does not have the luxury of faith. And thus it is a pleasure when science points to a […]