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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Book Review: For One More Day by Mitch Albom

30 Saturday Aug 2014

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Books, Literature, Love, Mitch Albom, Mothers, sentimental

For One More Day

For One More Day Book Cover

August 18th: Today is a momentous day. It’s my mom’s birthday! Through an utter coincidence, I happened to take this book up for reading a day before my mother’s birthday, temporarily oblivious to the occasion. Oh, how I love such coincidences! They are little life affirming miracles, dismissed by reason as coincidences, for what were the chances of my walking into a friend’s room in a different hostel on a hot afternoon on an impulse and ending up finishing this book, unaware of the relevance of the next day to the book? Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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Books, Catcher in the Rye, Literature, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, YA, Young Adult

(Cross posted from Indiabookstore.net)

Book Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the coming-of-age story of a lonely, shy, volatile 15-year old called Charlie who is both happy and sad and is trying to figure out how that could be. This is an epistolary novel where the chapters are a series of letters that a disillusioned and emotionally vulnerable Charlie writes to his diary imagining it to be a person, having heard that it listened and understood and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though it could have. Due to this introspective format, we get an intimate view into Charlie’s mind. Continue reading →

Falling: Love and Marriage in a Conservative Indian Family

15 Friday Aug 2014

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Excellent piece on the curious space an arranged marriage occupies in a world that hoists ‘falling in love’ on a pedestal. Highly recommended!

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The MCX Factor

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

Posted by rajatu in Business, Economics and Finance, Reportage

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business, commodities, company, finance, FTIL, Jignesh Shah, Kotak, NSEL scam, Stock Market, stocks

(Reproduced from original article in Outlook Business)

It’s a perfect David vs Goliath plot. The only difference is that here, David did not even have to fight the giant — Goliath simply surrendered in the battle for supremacy in the estimated Rs 100 lakh crore Indian commodity market. David, or Kotak Mahindra Bank, is now the single-largest shareholder in India’s largest commodity bourse, holding 80% share of the commodity market, while Goliath, MCX, has been summarily vanquished. Continue reading →

Book Review: Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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Duality, German Literature, Hermann Hesse, Human Nature, Literature, Steppenwolf

Steppenwolf

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I read this book on a twenty four hour train journey surrounded by the bourgeois. It was a terrifying experience. The book didn’t change my life and was not meant to, but it gave me hope and hope is always a good thing. Continue reading →

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