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Holler Away

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Soul Booze

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Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies...

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Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and...

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Engage

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The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown...

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Bookend - Where reading meets review

Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond – Laura Mersini-Houghton  

May 14, 2022

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.de) Thomas Samuel Kuhn is arguably the most influential scientific philosopher to have lived in the twentieth century. Kuhn upended received…

by Venky May 14, 2022

Oil Leaders: An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC’s Global Energy Policy – Ibrahim AlMuhanna

May 7, 2022
by Venky May 7, 2022

The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown – Nathan Furr & Susannah Harmon Furr

May 2, 2022
by Venky May 2, 2022

Barack Obama: Conservative, Pragmatist, Progressive – Burton i. Kaufman

April 30, 2022
by Venky April 30, 2022

Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse – John Aizlewood  

April 28, 2022
by Venky April 28, 2022

Tales of Imagination

Don Quixote’s Regret

December 26, 2020

(Image Credit: Crispina Kemp) In an alternate universe, Don Quixote, oblivious to the pleadings of Sancho Panza would have made a full tilt…

by Venky December 26, 2020

Call of the Wild

July 24, 2020
by Venky July 24, 2020

Pipelines and Pipe Dreams

March 2, 2020
by Venky March 2, 2020

COVID-19 & a world gone nuts

February 26, 2020
by Venky February 26, 2020

Big Pharma – Thy Name is Profit

February 8, 2020
by Venky February 8, 2020

Freewheeling

READING THROUGH 2021

December 28, 2021

As the world floundered from one crisis to the next, 2021 made 2020 look like a beatific year in Paradise. Events ranging from…

by Venky December 28, 2021

Neeraj Chopra – The Yudhishthira of Tokyo 2020

August 7, 2021
by Venky August 7, 2021

The closing lines of Great Gatsby and the genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald

July 27, 2021
by Venky July 27, 2021

The Magician of Melodies

July 10, 2021
by Venky July 10, 2021

A Hope called Tanya Coleridge by George Michael

April 14, 2021
by Venky April 14, 2021

Keats Corner

Holler Away

May 28, 2022

(Image Credit: Carolina Pimenta at http://www.unsplash.com) Call it rebellion or label it loosely as anarchy Deem it disobedience or conduct brazenly unruly Semantics…

by Venky May 28, 2022

Soul Booze

May 21, 2022
by Venky May 21, 2022

Engage

May 2, 2022
by Venky May 2, 2022

Light at the end of the Tunnel

April 30, 2022
by Venky April 30, 2022

Ashamed We Stand

February 26, 2022
by Venky February 26, 2022

Straight Drive

Shane Keith Warne – Cricket’s Last Icon & Iconoclast

March 5, 2022

It’s not often that a single individual succeeds in donning both the mantle of an icon and the garb of an iconoclast, especially…

by Venky March 5, 2022

Lords – A Plot Gone Awry

August 19, 2021
by Venky August 19, 2021

The Irreverence of Rishabh Pant

March 5, 2021
by Venky March 5, 2021

Death by Aesthetics: The Rohit Sharma Way

February 13, 2021
by Venky February 13, 2021

The Philosophy of Interludes

January 20, 2021
by Venky January 20, 2021

SilverScreen

‘Gehriayan’ – An Unappetising fare for the hungry

February 13, 2022

(Image Credit: http://www.Amazonprime.com) One of the greatest champions the world of tennis has ever seen, Pete Sampras always wore a look that was…

by Venky February 13, 2022

Mimi – Medium is the Message

August 1, 2021
by Venky August 1, 2021

Haseen Dilruba: A Poor Man’s Roald Dahl Gone Awry

July 24, 2021
by Venky July 24, 2021

Pagglait

April 11, 2021
by Venky April 11, 2021

Operation Varsity Blues – Chris Smith

March 23, 2021
by Venky March 23, 2021

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    During the course of a magnificent, marauding and merciless century which took the wind out of the collective sails of the Sri Lankans…

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    The swagger that had etched itself as an integral part of cricketing folklore was unmistakably there. The attitude of nonchalance accompanying every step…

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