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Wonder Boy: TONY HSIEH, ZAPPOS and the MYTH of HAPPINESS in SILICON...

by Venky May 27, 2023 0 comment

Essays in Idleness and Hojoki – Kenko and Chomei (Translated by Meredith...

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F.U.G.A.C.I.O.U.S

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How We Live is How We Die – Pema Chodron

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Mr. Vedantham: Part 2 – R. Mahadevan

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How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food & Drink –...

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Bookend - Where reading meets review

Wonder Boy: TONY HSIEH, ZAPPOS and the MYTH of HAPPINESS in SILICON VALLEY – Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans

May 27, 2023

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) When he was all of 24, Tony Hsieh found himself a millionaire when his first venture, LinkExchange was snapped up…

by Venky May 27, 2023

Essays in Idleness and Hojoki – Kenko and Chomei (Translated by Meredith McKinney)

May 23, 2023
by Venky May 23, 2023

How We Live is How We Die – Pema Chodron

May 7, 2023
by Venky May 7, 2023

Mr. Vedantham: Part 2 – R. Mahadevan

May 6, 2023
by Venky May 6, 2023

How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food & Drink – Paco Underhill

April 30, 2023
by Venky April 30, 2023

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

Year In Books – 2022

January 5, 2023

If the readings in and of 2021 was to a great extent, directed towards preserving the last vestiges of sanity in a world…

by Venky January 5, 2023

READING THROUGH 2021

December 28, 2021
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

Keats Corner

F.U.G.A.C.I.O.U.S

May 20, 2023

(Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash) Infinitesimal man with an ego taller than him Ambitions over riding commonsense Insignificant like a dew drop renting a leaf…

by Venky May 20, 2023

Method to the Madness

April 29, 2023
by Venky April 29, 2023

Logging Off

April 15, 2023
by Venky April 15, 2023

Calm

April 1, 2023
by Venky April 1, 2023

Expression

March 25, 2023
by Venky March 25, 2023

Straight Drive

The Shubman Show

February 2, 2023

(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…

by Venky February 2, 2023

Shane Keith Warne – Cricket’s Last Icon & Iconoclast

March 5, 2022
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

SilverScreen

Ponniyin Selvan 2 – Miscalculated Liberty

April 30, 2023

In the world of the creative arts, liberty in the form of imaginative license is an indispensable attribute for success. However, when such…

by Venky April 30, 2023

PONNIYIN SELVAN 1 – A FITTING PAEAN TO THE GENIUS OF KALKI

October 2, 2022
by Venky October 2, 2022

‘Gehriayan’ – An Unappetising fare for the hungry

February 13, 2022
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

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    (Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Acknowledged by Jayakanthan himself as the favourite amongst all his works, Oru Manidhan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam, literally translating to…

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