Travelogue

 Helogoland' by Carlo Rovelli In the last chapter of the book, Rovelli very kindly includes a few paragraphs which save the discerning r...

During my work travels across South East Asia about two decades back, I used to be surprised by relics of Hindu icons languishing behind maj...

I've been quite a bit intrigued at times when certain persons are perceived as insensitive or even apathetic, even when they seem to be ...

Had an epiphany of sorts, during my daily morning readings today.  (Nothing groundbreaking, and may look too simplistic to some.) Being a fi...

David Wengrow and the late David Graeber, 'spiritual father' of the Occupy Wall Street movement, co-wrote a wonderful critique of E...

All around, the poor seem to be getting poorer and the rich richer, on the back of their favoured vehicles of enterprises, virtual and real,...

For a good number of years, while being aware of Victor Frankl's book, I've been avoiding taking it up, in the (mistaken, as it turn...

Truth be told, I've been a fan of Carl Sagan since decades, since the time I used to watch his TV series 'Cosmos'.  I've alw...

 'Caffeine' by Michael Pollan (audiobook) It's Pollan's name as author which initially drew me to this, the first audiobook ...

Long back, while in college, I read this blurb at the beginning of a course reading 'Nectar In A Sieve', a novel by Kamala Markandey...