“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.” John Grierson Haruki Murakami’s latest and most eagerly anticipated offering “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years Of Piligrimage”, is a hollow disappointment, a meek concoction of reluctant whorls and a flawed attempt at replicating expected … Continue reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)

John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, two high priests of finance poured forth from their respective ideological pulpits more than eighty years ago. Their polemics and preaching had such reverberations that they spawned a new divide of loyal pupils. A divide that carries on the legacy long after their Masters have gone. On one side … Continue reading Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott

  A stupendous collection of nine Science Fiction stories penned by the authority on his preferred genre - Issac Asimov. The stories touch upon aberrant behaviour by robots, evocative telepathy underlying human interactions with extraordinary creations of metal agglomerated with complex circuitry and the perennial conflict between man and machine. This thought provoking assimilation of … Continue reading

Gideon Haigh is universally acclaimed as the greatest living cricket author. However it is not cricket that attracts his thoughts in this small book. Haigh passionately dwells into the woes plaguing the automobile industry in Australia and succinctly traces the imperiled path to doom traversed by this once booming industry. Government subsidies, import tariffs, ever … Continue reading End of the Road? by Gideon Haig

A rousing anthology of some of the most peculiar, phenomenal and pernicious incidents to have burnished and tarnished a cricket field in equal measure. The incidents are more of "Eye witness" accounts as they are narrated by the protagonists in their own words and employing their own emotions. Whether it be Dennis Lillee brandishing an … Continue reading

He wrote the finest ever book on cricket. But he was also a man of remarkably versatile talents and personalities. Dave Renton pries open the life of Cyril Lionel Robert James and what is revealed is a kaleidoscopic variety of accomplishments. A Trotskyite, a Marxist for life, intellectual, magnificent orator, statesman, a fervent advocate of … Continue reading C. L. R. James: cricket’s philosopher king by David Renton

  Plagued by an inept articulation, this much awaited autobiography turns out to be, (whether intentionally or accidentally), an exercise in futility. While Sachin's book fails to make a mark on multiple counts, the most explicit travesty is an overwhelmingly liberal usage of the vowel "I", drowning out muted references to the preferred words "us" … Continue reading Playing It My Way: My Autobiography -Sachin Tendulkar, Boria Majumdar

Author of 36 books on cricket, an inveterate memorabilia accumulator (with letters alone exceeding a whopping 6,000), founder of the Wisden Cricket Monthly and a rapacious knowledge of the game all make David Frith a phenomenon when it comes to the world of cricket. In this wonderful work, Frith recounts his unforgettable as well as … Continue reading Frith’s Encounters by David Frith

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award for 2014, this stupendous work by Atul Gawande is magnificently moving, monumentally relevant and memorably seminal considering the times we are in. While medicine has progressed beyond radical imagination extending the human life span, it has continued to grapple with a quintessential dilemma - Is prolonging a painful life … Continue reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Pete Sampras - A legend with a hangdog expression calmly decimating his foes on the court with utter disdain. What is it that lies behind this poker faced demeanor and the unblinking exterior that put paid hopes to the plotting of an Agassi, the passion of a Becker and the penchant of a Safin? In … Continue reading A Champion’s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis – Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo