Category: Books

  • Dilli ki sardi & Biking

    A random discussion on Delhi winters with some colleagues reminded of the joys of riding on a winter evening in Delhi. The cold, slightly damp, wind across your face. The fog. The warmth of the engine. And the fog that doesn’t let you see too far in the distance, and because you are riding slowly…

  • Being human!

    Starting to read Game of Thrones. Source: 9gag

  • On Story Telling

    Got this gem from Natasha Badhwar, who is a gifted story teller herself, on Twitter (follow her now). The quotes below are from Steve McCurry‘s (of the iconic Afghan Girl photo fame) wonderful blog. The story was the bushman’s most sacred possession. These people knew what we do not; that without a story you have not got…

  • Soccer in Sun and Shadow: Mini Review

    You can’t write enough about a book that begins with, “We lost, we won, Either way we had fun.” In the book, Eduardo Galeano takes you through a brief history of football (soccer to him) through the last century, inter woven with a lot of social commentary. You get goosebumps reading his description of certain…

  • Indiaplaza Sucks!

    This is a copy of the email I sent to Indiaplaza today. Hi Narinder & Shazia & Anthony, Your customer service just blows me away!! Thanks for the brilliant work. You guys haven’t obviously delivered the book till today. That after you guys called me on Monday and assured me that the book would be…