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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Book review - 'The Hidden Life of Trees'

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 #trees #woodwideweb 'The Hidden Life of Trees' by Peter Wohlleben That trees in a forest communicate with and nurture each other th...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

A biased question on the Chinese...

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 The late Sardar Khushwant Singh, who passed only a year short of a century thanks to his robust lifestyle and his daily dose of the tipple,...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Coincidences...

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It sometimes happens with probably all of us that we're thinking of something and then, either instantly or after a short time, we see s...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Book review - 'Gene Machine' by Venki Ramakrishnan

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We keep learning regularly of how new frontiers of science have been reached, and of the recognition awarded to this or that scientist, or ...
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Saturday, May 09, 2020

Brazenness across decades....

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I was watching an episode of the Netflix series 'Tokyo Trial', on the trial of Japanese military and civilian officials accused of ...
Friday, May 01, 2020

Intellectual pursuits in times of Covid...

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I started on this post as the rant of a home-bound working male in India fulminating against travails of the lockdown brought on by the wo...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Book 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne

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The Holocaust is one subject which has been written about, talked about and filmed about enough number of times to cover every possible asp...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Book review: 'Netaji - Living Dangerously'

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I don't usually buy books from airport bookstalls - browsing at those stores and ordering online saves quite a packet!  But this slim v...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Movie review - 'Patakha'

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Watched 'Patakha' on Prime recently.  Vishal Bhardwaj has come up with another authentic vignette based in rural India, perhaps som...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Thoughts across eras - in books

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It's surprising how certain ideas and concepts seem to be transmitted across eras and writers. I was reading a chapter of the book/col...
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