(Image Credit: NetGalley.com) Published by Magination Press, a children’s book imprint of the American Psychological Association, Jamie Roche, an experienced professional in the…
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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(Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash) Biding her time and getting away from battles that aren’t hers Wielding words that cut sharper than a rapier yet…
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Ponniyin Selvan – Thyaga Sigaram (Volume 5) – Kalki Krishnamurthy
by Venky(Image Credit: Vikatan Publications) The unparalleled story telling capabilities of Kalki attain its apogee in the concluding volume, a tome titled “Thyaga Sigaram”.…
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(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) This imaginatively titled book – originally penned in French as ‘Nouvelle Histoire de I’Inde’ – by the former South Asian…
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Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.
by Venky(Image Credit: Netgalley.com) Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the stress reduction program mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR),…
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(Photo by Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash) A behemoth palace sheltering statesmen and spies Thalassic in location and tenuous in affairs Conspiracies, chaos and camaraderie dance a…
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Ponniyin Selvan – Manimukutam (Volume 4) – Kalki Krishnamurthy
by Venky(Image Credit: Vikatan Publications) If Volume 3 progressed at a countrified pace with its patented twists and turns, Volume 4 takes off like…
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Ponniyin Selvan – Kolai Vaal (Volume 3) – Kalki Krishnamurthy
by Venky(Image Credit: Vikatan Publications) The most sedate of the series, Volume 3 methodically and meticulously lays down the platform for its penultimate and…
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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Richa Mishra’s India’s Oil Story is a sneak peek into the trajectory of the measures undertaken by a nation to…
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Darwin’s Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia– Kay Harel
by Venky(Image Credit: netgalley.com) Kay Harel informs us about the elucidation of the great novelist Henry James after the latter visited Charles Darwin at…