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Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative...

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Dunces Assemble

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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself  – Michael Singer

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Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism – David Gelles

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Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA – Amaryllis Fox

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Vista

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Bookend - Where reading meets review

Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative – Austin Kleon

June 29, 2022

(Image Credit: http://www.ebookmela.com) A cross between a calendar of famous quotes and a pamphlet of bottled wisdom, Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like An Artist”…

by Venky June 29, 2022

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself  – Michael Singer

June 26, 2022
by Venky June 26, 2022

Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism – David Gelles

June 25, 2022
by Venky June 25, 2022

Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA – Amaryllis Fox

June 22, 2022
by Venky June 22, 2022

ALSO A POET: FRANK O’HARA, MY FATHER, AND ME – Ada Calhoun

June 14, 2022
by Venky June 14, 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

Dunces Assemble

June 27, 2022

(Photo by NII on Unsplash) Bereft of intelligence and shorn of common sense Brevity plagues Mother Earth. (Word Count: 12)

by Venky June 27, 2022

Vista

June 18, 2022
by Venky June 18, 2022

Caesar’s Laugh

June 4, 2022
by Venky June 4, 2022

Holler Away

May 28, 2022
by Venky May 28, 2022

Soul Booze

May 21, 2022
by Venky May 21, 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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    (Image Credit: Tanja Cotoaga at http://www.unsplash.com) A misdirected bullet fired in mirth and zest A misplaced word emblematic of indiscretion Nations against nation,…

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    (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…

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    (Image Credit: Rod Long at http://www.unsplash.com) Windmills chugging away in isolation under conditions windswept and bleak Pummeled by gusts of zephyrs, the propellers…

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    (Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) The American born British Petroleum industrialist, Jean Paul Getty once said: “Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of…

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