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Posted in books, tagged , on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Added up one more to my stack of read books. This was Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Moth Smoke’. A small novel plotted in the city of Lahore. A good read it was, though I wouldnt stay it was the best till date. In fact, I liked his second creation (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) more than this one.
Anyways, I [...]

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The Great Indian Novel

Posted in Reviews, books, tagged on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Just finished the literary work of Shashi Tharoor, namely ‘The Great Indian Novel’. Indeed a masterpiece.
The author has wonderfully correlated the story of Mahabharat with the modern Indian history, taking the analogy between the characters of the epic with the personalities of India. The author has done a good deal in establishing the chemistry of [...]

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A good time with Mr.Feynman!

Posted in Reviews, books, tagged , on August 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday I completed reading the book ‘Surely you’re joking Mr.Feynman’.
Its one of the best books that I have ever read. From the starting of the book, till the end, I have enjoyed every single page of it. You can say it as a kind of informal biography of R.P.Feyman. The book is divided into a number [...]

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Always Being Born – A review

Posted in Reviews, tagged , on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Very recently I completed the autobiography of Mrinal Sen namely ‘Always Being Born‘ which left me in deep dissapointment. It was the first time when I read someone’s biography and I dont know whether I can dare to read any more of such kind.
The first part of the book was pretty good, when the author [...]

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Books and Books!

Posted in Reviews, tagged , on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am a book freak, since my very early days. But those days I never got any chance to study beyond my syllabus books. I mainly started reading various Fiction/Nonfiction stuff after 12th. Since then, I have read many novels and a few Nonfiction works. Well of course, I havent read as much as Nyati [...]

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The UNIX Hater’s Handbook

Posted in Linux, Reviews, tagged , , , on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

When you love something you probably wont notice the flaws/negatives of the same. This can be applied to die-hard UNIX fanatics also. This book that I found a few days ago points out some of such things that someone would like to hate about UNIX. It contains lots of excerpts from the UNIX-Haters mailing list [...]

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