Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 10:11 am, Thaths wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 9:47 PM Alok Prasanna Kumar > > wrote: > > > To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular > order) > > ... > > 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe > > > ... > > If any of you

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 9:47 PM Alok Prasanna Kumar wrote: > To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order) > ... > 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe > ... If any of you are interested in the music of the Indian diaspora, this episode of

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

[... snipped ...] - Ursula K. Le Guin "No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters" This is collection of essays on various subjects. I have also read her fiction stories from Earthsea and Hain cycles. So far, all of her books were worth it. - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Prisoners

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My recommendations: Truck de India by Rajat Ubhayakar. This is the account of a young journalist who decided to travel around India hitchhiking on trucks. Written in a nice, deadpan way. Quite poignant in parts. Another book I loved was Incognito by David Eagleman about the subconscious brain.

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1. Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford 3. Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis 4. The secret history of the mongol queens by jack weatherford 5. Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South India by

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 >> On 31 Dec 2019, at 05:26, Thaths wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Ingrid wrote: >> >> My top 10 (no ranks) this year: >> Not Quite Not White : Losing and Finding Race in America - Sharmila Sen > > I read a sample chapter of this book as part of longreads and > really

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Ingrid wrote: > My top 10 (no ranks) this year: > Not Quite Not White : Losing and Finding Race in America - Sharmila Sen > I read a sample chapter of this book as part of longreads and really enjoyed it. I bought the book, but have not gotten to it yet. >

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This looks like it belongs in this thread: https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/rooms-of-their-own-11577444090874.html Udhay

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This year I discovered Keigo Higashino, a Japanese mystery author. Devoured 2 of his books: The Devotion of Suspect X and The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping

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I just finished Antigod's Own Country by A. V. Sakthidaran and it may be the most enlightening book I've read in years. Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda https://hasgeek.com On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 12:23, Ashim D'Silva wrote: > Loving all these recommendations… > My book of the year is a

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Loving all these recommendations… My book of the year is a collection of lectures by Ursula Franklin, The Real World Of Technology, which considers technology to be any I system or methods used to organise humans thought. It has me thinking a lot about my role as a creator of applications in how

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:17 AM Alok Prasanna Kumar wrote: > To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order) > > 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe > This reminded me of another excellent book I read in 2019 that was a good introduction to the

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My top reads by genre this year. In a departure for me, there was hardly anything related to identity, rights or history, still a rich harvest! Literary fiction: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towler (it gave me joy) Crime/Thriller: The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow, the first of his acclaimed

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To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order) 1. Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe 3. Interrogating My Chandal Life by Manoranjan Byapari 4. Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra (older but read this year) 5. The Flaming Feet

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My top 10 (no ranks) this year: A Horse Walked Into A Bar - David Grossman Milkman - Anna Burns Less - Andrew Sean Greer Not Quite Not White : Losing and Finding Race in America - Sharmila Sen Winners Take All : The Elite Charade of Changing The World - Anand Giridharadas The RTI Story : Power To

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The books I liked are: * Bottle of Lies (Katherine Eban) - from having a very scattered awareness of the underbelly of generics, the book was useful to understand what goes on. * Coming Out As Dalit (Yashica Dutt) - aside from the topical nature of the memoir, the writing/prose has strength which

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 7:49 AM Anil Kumar wrote: > Any takers for a book recommendation thread this year? > > Two books I enjoyed reading are: > > 1. This Divided Island - Samanth Subramaniam. 2. A Beginner's Guide to Japan - Pico Iyer. > I also enjoyed 'Autumn Light' by Pico Iyer. Other

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I found "The Dreamers" by Snigdha Poonam to be an enlightening story of India's descent into an amoral, "every man for himself" society. Venky

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 6:58 AM Thaths wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:35 AM Anil Kumar > wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM Thaths wrote: > > > > > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > > > recommendation this holiday season. > > > > > > What have

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On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:35 AM Anil Kumar wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM Thaths wrote: > > > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > > recommendation this holiday season. > > > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What >

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM Thaths wrote: > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What > are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:04 PM Thaths wrote: > The books that I enjoyed reading > the most this > year: > > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > by Siddhartha

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> > That's Constance Garnett, the great populariser of Russian novels in the > West. She's still very widely read. But can I put in a word for Pevear and > Volokhonsky? I finally finished War and Peace this year and I can't praise > their translation enough -- it's clearly meticulous and well >

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thaths wrote: > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation > this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading

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> > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna > wrote: > > > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but > > enjoyed > > > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this under-the-surface mild > > > sarcasm that suddenly leaps out, bites, and

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but enjoyed > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this under-the-surface mild > sarcasm that suddenly leaps out, bites, and then goes back to rest.

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> > > Besides the translations, another problem is that publishers put out > edited/abridged versions of classics with cover material that doesn't > mention this. I had a great time this year chomping through ~1500 > pages of the original anonymous English translation of Count of Monte > Cristo.

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On 14-Dec-2015, at 12:19 PM, Supriya Nair wrote: > > Anonymity for the > 1000-page edition seems puzzling -- if it was the > Penguin black classics edition, it's by Robin Buss. Well worth reading. The > novel form was invented for Dumas to have fun with. Buss is

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Supriya Nair wrote: > Anonymity for the > 1000-page edition seems puzzling -- if it was the > Penguin black classics edition, it's by Robin Buss. Well worth reading. The > novel form was invented for Dumas to have fun with. There are 2

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OUP and some others have excellent translations from the Russian - which is an extremely difficult language to translate. A lot of the humor doesn’t even translate well to English (especially in the case of Gogol, who used deliberately funny names for his characters to add to the humor, for

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Buss is canonical - and a lot of the other translations redact large parts of > the novel, either for convenience to chop out side stories, or due to > victorian prudery I find such "snipping" of content from

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The archive.org site has this text from the same edition gutenberg has - published by GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS LONDON AND NEW-YORK 1888 This adds the additional information .. Copyright, 1887. By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRB. There’s a Joseph L Blamire who is credited with some other works from

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:14 PM Ashwin Nanjappa wrote: > The English translation of Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicle is by Jay > Rubin. To my surprise I discovered later that entire chapters in the > Japanese original do not appear in Rubin's work! I'm guessing this >

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Copyright, 1887. > By JOSEPH L. BLAMIRB. > > There’s a Joseph L Blamire who is credited with some other works from the > 1860s onwards. He may not be the translator. Googling with his name does not throw up

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Ashwin Nanjappa wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: > > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but > enjoyed > > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this

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I read Jared Diamond's Collapse, and I felt its message that the so-called conflict between "development" and the environment is a false one, so relevant to our times. Diamond gives examples of socities that have lived next to each other and shows how the ones that respected nature were the ones

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Some books I enjoyed: - Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Michel Foucault - The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West by Aldous Huxley - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis

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Books I loved this year ... Fiction: The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) https://daariga.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/ On The Beach

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Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar (poetry) The Jaguar's Children and The Tiger by John Vaillant The Illegal by Lawrence Hill Don't Tell me you are afraid by Guiseppe Catozzella (english version soon in 2016) The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shehner

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I've enjoyed reading: Deep Green Resistance by Authors: Aric McBay, Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Seasons of Trouble by Rohini Mohan (winner of the Shakti Bhat first book prize) On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 08:43 Radhika, Y. wrote: > Children of Air India by Reneé Saklikar

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths wrote: [...] > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > * The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > by Siddhartha Mukherjee. An >

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Superforecasting by Phlip Tetlock: http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00Y78X7HY?keywords=superforecasting=1449804795_=sr_1_1=digital-text=1-1 The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley:

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:42 PM Amit Varma wrote: > Superforecasting by Phlip Tetlock: > > > http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B00Y78X7HY?keywords=superforecasting=1449804795_=sr_1_1=digital-text=1-1 Tetlock did a SALT talk about this recently

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This isn't a book, exactly. But it's a web series that's taking shape while touching upon history, mythology, warfare, feminism, and fantasy. It's called the #KProject, and is available in little doses here: http://urbangirldom.com/wp/category/k-project/ But if it interests you very much, read

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Thaths wrote: > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/NewYear's > holidays?

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:13 PM Radhika, Y. wrote: > That Lonely Section of Hell by Lori Shehner (Cop's real life account of the > botched investigation of murdered aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown > Eastside) > Are these same murders that Justin Trudeau ordered an

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM Ashwin Nanjappa wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Thaths wrote: > [...] > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > > I've just started on this one, it is just amazing! > Indeed. BTW, Albina wrote a fiction book

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On 11 December 2015 at 08:35, Thaths wrote: > For the seventh year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation > this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading