(Image credit: Marlowbooksuk.com) Reading Last Summer in the City is akin to driving blindfolded and at a speed that is positively indiscreet. One…
Venky
Venky
Possess a maniacal penchant for books, more books, still more books & lots more books -When not watching cricket that is! Love my Scotch &scribble for fun; Spend a great part of my professional life unraveling (or at least attempting to) the mysteries of International Tax and Transfer Pricing. My eclectic interests include Philosophy; Booze; Military History; Metaphysics; Quantum Theory and such. Mush being a strict taboo though! Led Zeppelin is ambrosia but never ever talk to me about Justin Beiber! I derive inspiration from Henry David Thoreau's immortal lines, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
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(Image Credit: http://www.mykhel.com) At 11.00 P.M on a pleasant Chinese New Year night, the skyline of Kuala Lumpur erupted into a dazzling kaleidoscope…
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Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City –by Ana Kinsella
by Venky(Image Credit: Daunt Books Originals) “Look Here” is a candid, studied and panegyric tribute to a city that pulsates unceasingly and is a…
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Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland – edited by Kathleen Jamie
by Venky(Image Credit: cornerstonebooks.org.uk) With studied contributions from twenty-one writers and two visual artists, Antlers of Water, is an assemblage of specially commissioned writing…
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(Image Credit: Londonreviewbooks.co.uk) A wistful throwback to uncomplicated times, Elif Shafak’ s cross between a tract and a reflective novella, is a plea…
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If the readings in and of 2021 was to a great extent, directed towards preserving the last vestiges of sanity in a world…
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Tom Gates Spectacular School Trip (Really) – Liz Pichon
by Venky(Image: http://www.goodreads.com) While having a 11-year-old niece is a blessed advantage, being in constant touch with an eleven-year-old niece who is an inveterate…
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(Image Credit: Penguin Books) Little Billy keeps forlornly looking out his window at the woods beyond, day after day after day. The vast…
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(Image Credit: Penguin.com) Greg Heffley, a teenaged boy is sandwiched at home between his three-year-old brother Manny, who has an uncanny knack for…
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(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) With exquisitely aesthetic illustrations by Ruby Taylor, “Freddie Mercury” by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, is a breezy introduction to the…