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About Me
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2019-01-09 11:16:16 +0530 IST'>January 9, 2019</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2019-01-09 11:16:16 +0530 IST'>🗓 January 9, 2019</span> 3 min Siddhartha Golu
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<p>A series of blog posts that unfortunately became a book. Not recommended.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>March 29, 2023</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>🗓 March 29, 2023</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</a> · <a href="/tags/career-advice"> career-advice</a> · <a href="/tags/fast-food-books"> fast-food-books</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/so-good-newport/"></a>
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<p>A book about time and our relationship with it. Recommended.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-09-21 07:35:24 +0530 IST'>September 21, 2022</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-09-21 07:35:24 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 21, 2022</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/four-thousand-weeks/"></a>
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-04-21 09:04:49 +0530 IST'>April 21, 2022</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-04-21 09:04:49 +0530 IST'>🗓 April 21, 2022</span> 1 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/architecture"> architecture</a> · <a href="/tags/society"> society</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/life-between-buildings/"></a>
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If I’ve learnt something all these years, it is this universal maxim. Everybody wishes they’d make ethically sound choices in their lives, but more often than not, ethical choices are in contrast with cost and convenience. Nowhere is this more apparent than the way we consume food.
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If I’ve learnt something all these years, it is this universal maxim. Everybody wishes they’d make ethically sound choices in their lives, but more often than not, ethical choices are in contrast with cost and convenience. Nowhere is this more apparent than the way we consume food.
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There are a lot of similarities between food and religion. Both are deeply personal choices which are erroneously thought of as having a clear, set winning answer....</p>
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There are a lot of similarities between food and religion. Both are deeply personal choices which are erroneously thought of as having a clear, set winning answer....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>September 1, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 1, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/review"> review</a> · <a href="/tags/debating-ethics"> debating-ethics</a> · <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/animal-cruelty"> animal-cruelty</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/the-way-we-eat/"></a>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>August 17, 2021</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>🗓 August 17, 2021</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/fiction"> fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a> · <a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Shame by Salman Rushdie" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/shame-rushdie/"></a>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-14 20:09:56 +0530 IST'>August 14, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-14 20:09:56 +0530 IST'>🗓 August 14, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/audiobook"> audiobook</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a> · <a href="/tags/health"> health</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/running-murakami/"></a>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-07-23 22:56:47 +0530 IST'>July 23, 2021</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-07-23 22:56:47 +0530 IST'>🗓 July 23, 2021</span> 3 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a> · <a href="/tags/religion"> religion</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Annihilation of Caste(Annotated Edition) by Arundhati Roy" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/annihilation-of-caste/"></a>
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I have had a very curious relationship with religion, although now that I talk to others, it was a much more normal experience than what I led myself to believe. I followed the typical path of receiving a particular religion from my parents (born a “Hindu child”), which had a supporting role in my life up until my late-teenage/early-adolescent years.
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As is the norm for every child brought up in religion, I used to consider myself special believing that I had a “personal relationship” with God....</p>
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As is the norm for every child brought up in religion, I used to consider myself special believing that I had a “personal relationship” with God....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-18 22:14:21 +0530 IST'>March 18, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-18 22:14:21 +0530 IST'>🗓 March 18, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/religion"> religion</a> · <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/parenting"> parenting</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/parenting/"></a>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-09-30 22:22:13 +0530 IST'>September 30, 2020</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-09-30 22:22:13 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 30, 2020</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I’ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn’t doing anything “productive.” Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven’t found sincere answers to these questions, I’ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don’t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict....</p>
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I’ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn’t doing anything “productive.” Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven’t found sincere answers to these questions, I’ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don’t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-28 19:45:36 +0530 IST'>June 28, 2020</span> · 5 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-28 19:45:36 +0530 IST'>🗓 June 28, 2020</span> 5 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/fiction"> fiction</a></footer>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-05-01 23:39:18 +0530 IST'>May 1, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-05-01 23:39:18 +0530 IST'>🗓 May 1, 2020</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/journalism"> journalism</a> · <a href="/tags/audiobook"> audiobook</a></footer>
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I am an atheist interested in the power of mindfulness and the whole world of so-called spirituality, so naturally, I am the ideal audience that Sam Harris is looking for. But it disappointed in almost every domain that I had expectations in. Using deep-sounding difficult words and wrapping them in an almost mythical aura of “Consciousness”, this one was a huge letdown....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-15 23:31:08 +0530 IST'>April 15, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-15 23:31:08 +0530 IST'>🗓 April 15, 2020</span> 1 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/meditation"> meditation</a></footer>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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If you’ve ever had a panic attack. If you’ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If you’ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-28 22:28:18 +0530 IST'>January 28, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Started with a tightly-knit structure, but faltered at the end. The last few chapters were a slog to get through - mostly because of numerous “business-class” style case studies.
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Main takeaway? Other than the central idea around which the book revolves (and succinctly mentioned as the book subtitle too), the idea of interleaving is what struck me the most. I had already read about this particular method in Michael Nielsen’s brilliant post on Anki (“Augmenting Long-term Memory”) and it was interesting to read about it formally in the book....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-05 00:16:14 +0530 IST'>September 5, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-02-14 20:21:45 +0530 IST'>February 14, 2019</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-01-21 14:39:14 +0530 IST'>January 21, 2019</span> · 7 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt to put us into a box. But what happens if you’re asked to choose something which you’ll cherish for the rest of your life - would you let go of all the times when you were sad, angry, bitter, hypocrite and a bad human being?...</p>
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Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt to put us into a box. But what happens if you’re asked to choose something which you’ll cherish for the rest of your life - would you let go of all the times when you were sad, angry, bitter, hypocrite and a bad human being?...</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-05-01 22:41:55 +0530 IST'>May 1, 2022</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to After Life (1998) by Hirokazu Kore-eda" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/after-life/"></a>
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-11-14 10:46:40 +0530 IST'>November 14, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-15 21:30:40 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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A slow, methodical display of patience and absurdity juxtaposed on the vast landscape, this film has something else going for it. When you read the synopsis or look at the posters, you expect a certain police procedural drama - the kind of which you’ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope....</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-01-03 22:53:01 +0530 IST'>January 3, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There are films which you wish you had watched earlier in life, and there are others which don’t make sense until you have had your fair share of world experiences. Waking Life falls in the former category.
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The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-11-27 22:57:50 +0530 IST'>November 27, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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Over the years, I have increasingly gravitated towards films where supposedly “nothing happens”. Characters talk, no attempt is made to instill a moral point into the minds of the audience, which is usually accompanied with long, patient shots of people existing in their environments. This was an excellent specimen of the same dish.
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I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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A slow, methodical display of patience and absurdity juxtaposed on the vast landscape, this film has something else going for it. When you read the synopsis or look at the posters, you expect a certain police procedural drama - the kind of which you’ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope....</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I’ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn’t doing anything “productive.” Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven’t found sincere answers to these questions, I’ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don’t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict....</p>
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At one point or another, we have all experienced some version of this phenomenon - may be characterized by an oversaturation of love, or caused by a prolonged mediocrity in life, or as in the case of our protagonist here, the complete loss of will and motivation to feel anything....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-25 23:45:30 +0530 IST'>April 25, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-04 23:01:15 +0530 IST'>March 4, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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If you’ve ever had a panic attack. If you’ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If you’ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-28 22:28:18 +0530 IST'>January 28, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-05 00:16:14 +0530 IST'>September 5, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-03-15 22:27:30 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-02-14 20:21:45 +0530 IST'>February 14, 2019</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-01-21 14:39:14 +0530 IST'>January 21, 2019</span> · 7 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2021-03-23 20:18:21 +0530 IST'>March 23, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2021-11-14 10:46:40 +0530 IST'>November 14, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-11-27 22:57:50 +0530 IST'>November 27, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2021-03-15 21:30:40 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2019-03-15 22:27:30 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-06-09 17:26:51 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-06-09 16:51:23 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-06-09 17:20:16 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-06-09 17:09:43 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · siddhartha
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>March 29, 2023</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>🗓 March 29, 2023</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</a> · <a href="/tags/career-advice"> career-advice</a> · <a href="/tags/fast-food-books"> fast-food-books</a></footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-09-21 07:35:24 +0530 IST'>September 21, 2022</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-09-21 07:35:24 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 21, 2022</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</a></footer>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt to put us into a box. But what happens if you’re asked to choose something which you’ll cherish for the rest of your life - would you let go of all the times when you were sad, angry, bitter, hypocrite and a bad human being?...</p>
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Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt to put us into a box. But what happens if you’re asked to choose something which you’ll cherish for the rest of your life - would you let go of all the times when you were sad, angry, bitter, hypocrite and a bad human being?...</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-05-01 22:41:55 +0530 IST'>May 1, 2022</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-05-01 22:41:55 +0530 IST'>🗓 May 1, 2022</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/foreign-cinema"> foreign-cinema</a> · <a href="/tags/asia"> asia</a></footer>
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-04-21 09:04:49 +0530 IST'>April 21, 2022</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-04-21 09:04:49 +0530 IST'>🗓 April 21, 2022</span> 1 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/architecture"> architecture</a> · <a href="/tags/society"> society</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/life-between-buildings/"></a>
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-11-14 10:46:40 +0530 IST'>November 14, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-11-14 10:46:40 +0530 IST'>🗓 November 14, 2021</span> 1 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/foreign-cinema"> foreign-cinema</a> · <a href="/tags/asia"> asia</a> · <a href="/tags/minimalism"> minimalism</a></footer>
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If I’ve learnt something all these years, it is this universal maxim. Everybody wishes they’d make ethically sound choices in their lives, but more often than not, ethical choices are in contrast with cost and convenience. Nowhere is this more apparent than the way we consume food.
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There are a lot of similarities between food and religion. Both are deeply personal choices which are erroneously thought of as having a clear, set winning answer....</p>
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There are a lot of similarities between food and religion. Both are deeply personal choices which are erroneously thought of as having a clear, set winning answer....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>September 1, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 1, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/review"> review</a> · <a href="/tags/debating-ethics"> debating-ethics</a> · <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/animal-cruelty"> animal-cruelty</a></footer>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-15 21:30:40 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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A slow, methodical display of patience and absurdity juxtaposed on the vast landscape, this film has something else going for it. When you read the synopsis or look at the posters, you expect a certain police procedural drama - the kind of which you’ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope....</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I’ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn’t doing anything “productive.” Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven’t found sincere answers to these questions, I’ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don’t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-09 17:26:51 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-09 16:51:23 +0530 IST'>June 9, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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At one point or another, we have all experienced some version of this phenomenon - may be characterized by an oversaturation of love, or caused by a prolonged mediocrity in life, or as in the case of our protagonist here, the complete loss of will and motivation to feel anything....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-04 14:39:00 +0530 IST'>June 4, 2020</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-25 23:45:30 +0530 IST'>April 25, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-15 23:31:08 +0530 IST'>April 15, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-12 23:23:19 +0530 IST'>March 12, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-04 23:01:15 +0530 IST'>March 4, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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If you’ve ever had a panic attack. If you’ve ever counted the number of times the ceiling fan rotates, just so you could avoid dealing with the endless voices in your head. If you’ve ever felt ashamed to admit that you might be suffering from the D-word. If reading about personal stories of how people overcame their mental illnesses soothes you....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-28 22:28:18 +0530 IST'>January 28, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-05 00:16:14 +0530 IST'>September 5, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-03-15 22:27:30 +0530 IST'>March 15, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-02-14 20:21:45 +0530 IST'>February 14, 2019</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-01-21 14:39:14 +0530 IST'>January 21, 2019</span> · 7 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-01-28 22:28:18 +0530 IST'>January 28, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu
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<div class="post-meta"><span title='2020-04-25 23:45:30 +0530 IST'>April 25, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu
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The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-11-27 22:57:50 +0530 IST'>November 27, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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Can there be a more difficult task than being asked to select a single memory from your life that you want to carry forever? As humans, we contain multitudes and we want to resist any attempt to put us into a box. But what happens if you’re asked to choose something which you’ll cherish for the rest of your life - would you let go of all the times when you were sad, angry, bitter, hypocrite and a bad human being?...</p>
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>March 29, 2023</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Started with a tightly-knit structure, but faltered at the end. The last few chapters were a slog to get through - mostly because of numerous “business-class” style case studies.
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Check out this review on Letterboxd
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You can spot Wes Anderson trademark from a mile ago, although this is the only movie by him which left me dissatisfied. The unique and swift camera movements are still there, the colors still pop out like from another universe, the absurd comic timings still bring a smile to your face - but you won’t feel the kind of personal emotional investment into the characters like you would in the rest of his filmography....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-04 23:01:15 +0530 IST'>March 4, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>September 1, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-01-21 14:39:14 +0530 IST'>January 21, 2019</span> · 7 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>March 29, 2023</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/so-good-newport/"></a>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>August 17, 2021</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>🗓 August 17, 2021</span> 2 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/fiction"> fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a> · <a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Shame by Salman Rushdie" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/shame-rushdie/"></a>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-14 20:09:56 +0530 IST'>August 14, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-14 20:09:56 +0530 IST'>🗓 August 14, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/audiobook"> audiobook</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a> · <a href="/tags/health"> health</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/running-murakami/"></a>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-07-23 22:56:47 +0530 IST'>July 23, 2021</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-07-23 22:56:47 +0530 IST'>🗓 July 23, 2021</span> 3 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a> · <a href="/tags/religion"> religion</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Annihilation of Caste(Annotated Edition) by Arundhati Roy" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/annihilation-of-caste/"></a>
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I have had a very curious relationship with religion, although now that I talk to others, it was a much more normal experience than what I led myself to believe. I followed the typical path of receiving a particular religion from my parents (born a “Hindu child”), which had a supporting role in my life up until my late-teenage/early-adolescent years.
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I have had a very curious relationship with religion, although now that I talk to others, it was a much more normal experience than what I led myself to believe. I followed the typical path of receiving a particular religion from my parents (born a “Hindu child”), which had a supporting role in my life up until my late-teenage/early-adolescent years.
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As is the norm for every child brought up in religion, I used to consider myself special believing that I had a “personal relationship” with God....</p>
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As is the norm for every child brought up in religion, I used to consider myself special believing that I had a “personal relationship” with God....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-18 22:14:21 +0530 IST'>March 18, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-18 22:14:21 +0530 IST'>🗓 March 18, 2021</span> 4 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/religion"> religion</a> · <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/parenting"> parenting</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/parenting/"></a>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-01-03 22:53:01 +0530 IST'>January 3, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-01-03 22:53:01 +0530 IST'>🗓 January 3, 2021</span> 1 min 🔖 <a href="/tags/motorcycling"> motorcycling</a> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a> · <a href="/tags/india"> india</a></footer>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-09-30 22:22:13 +0530 IST'>September 30, 2020</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-12 23:23:19 +0530 IST'>March 12, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/glimpses-of-world-history/"></a>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-12 20:12:10 +0530 IST'>September 12, 2019</span> · 6 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>August 17, 2021</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I’ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn’t doing anything “productive.” Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven’t found sincere answers to these questions, I’ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don’t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-28 19:45:36 +0530 IST'>June 28, 2020</span> · 5 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-02-14 20:21:45 +0530 IST'>February 14, 2019</span> · 3 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-11-14 10:46:40 +0530 IST'>November 14, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<a class="entry-link" aria-label="post link to 3 Iron (2004) by Kim Ki-duk" href="https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/3-iron/"></a>
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I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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A slow, methodical display of patience and absurdity juxtaposed on the vast landscape, this film has something else going for it. When you read the synopsis or look at the posters, you expect a certain police procedural drama - the kind of which you’ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope....</p>
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A slow, methodical display of patience and absurdity juxtaposed on the vast landscape, this film has something else going for it. When you read the synopsis or look at the posters, you expect a certain police procedural drama - the kind of which you’ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope....</p>
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I have no affinity for running, even for short jogs, and much less for wanting to run long distances. Although this is not because I hate exercises - one of those rare things that I figured out early in life was my desire to remain healthy as long as possible and that of course means I need to keep myself fit - but probably my distaste for running stems from the monotonous nature of the activity....</p>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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I have been a lover of music since my early childhood - runs in the family - and have imitated and performed songs (mostly inside my own head) on numerous occasions. Despite this lifelong love affair with music of all kinds, there was one particular genre of music that always baffled me. Mostly because of my own ignorance, but partially also because nobody else was talking about it....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-01-16 22:05:06 +0530 IST'>January 16, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-01-03 22:53:01 +0530 IST'>January 3, 2021</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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Now that I’ve moved away from reading fiction, I find that I face a lot of inertia to pick up something purely for pleasure. Maybe this is a nasty by-product of wanting to be as “productive” as possible. But the more I have drifted away from reading for pleasure, more mechanical the whole process has become for me. Partly to avoid this feeling, and partly because of my shame at seeing my bookshelf filled with dusty unread books, I picked up this one to assuage my feelings of guilt....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-08-17 22:55:02 +0530 IST'>August 17, 2021</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-03-12 23:23:19 +0530 IST'>March 12, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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World history in a nutshell More than 1100 pages, this behemoth of a book still fails to capture the whole essence of world history - and rightly so. How can you combine over 2000 years of human history and still do justice to every element? But the unique manner in which this book - or more appropriately, collection of letters - has been written, it shines brightly amongst the plethora of history books you can find on this vast subject of world history....</p>
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I am an atheist interested in the power of mindfulness and the whole world of so-called spirituality, so naturally, I am the ideal audience that Sam Harris is looking for. But it disappointed in almost every domain that I had expectations in. Using deep-sounding difficult words and wrapping them in an almost mythical aura of “Consciousness”, this one was a huge letdown....</p>
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We are all empty houses, waiting for someone to open the lock and set us free.
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There’s something romantic about living on extremes. This applies as much to my film taste as it does to my day-to-day life. Nowhere is this more evident than in a crucial element of cinema - dialogues. On the one hand, you have Celine and Jesse showing us the entire world through their words, while on the other you have Sun and Tae doing the same thing without speaking a word....</p>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
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Motorcycling community is laden with fist-pumping-muscle-bulging-neckbeardy-speed-ninjas-Harley-fans, and it usually gets a bad rap all across the world. Gaurav Jani is none of these things. His passion and humility and curious nature reminded me why I loved biking in the first place. This is a must-watch for anyone fascinated with two wheels and the places they enable you to visit.</p>
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<p>A series of blog posts that unfortunately became a book. Not recommended.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-03-29 15:04:13 +0530 IST'>March 29, 2023</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>A book about time and our relationship with it. Recommended.</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-09-21 07:35:24 +0530 IST'>September 21, 2022</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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One of the principal joys of reading is to discover the magic hidden in the seemingly banal things in life. I would’ve never cared to think twice about the intricacies of designing buildings and urban spaces, had it not been for this book. This serves as a gentle introduction to the fascinating study of how subtle differences in design of public spaces affect interactions on a much more broader scale....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2022-04-21 09:04:49 +0530 IST'>April 21, 2022</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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If I’ve learnt something all these years, it is this universal maxim. Everybody wishes they’d make ethically sound choices in their lives, but more often than not, ethical choices are in contrast with cost and convenience. Nowhere is this more apparent than the way we consume food.
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>September 1, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I’ve lived my whole life here. What the cultural multitudes and colorful festivals hide underneath is an ugly facade which threatens to break everything that has been built over the years. What I find most fascinating is how we’ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold....</p>
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I don’t have a lot of friends who are supporters of the ruling BJP (well at least the ones who have disclosed it publicly), and consequently whenever the conversation shifts towards the ongoings in India, more often than not, we find ourselves agreeing with each other. Although this is perfectly alright for me on most days, on few ocaasions, I find a shadow of a doubt slowly creeping up inside - what if I’m living inside a bubble, an echo-chamber where I only get exposed to the ideas which I already hold to be true, especially relevant now that everything in our lives are getting regulated by algorithms....</p>
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How to fool the world and become a Billionaire I remember hearing about Elizabeth Holmes when I was in my late teens, at that impressionable age when you get hyper-inspired by reading about icons that are going to change the world. There was a profile of her in Wired, with an eye-catching image of her wearing a turtleneck black sweater holding what looked like a test-tube with a tiny amount of blood with a science-y background....</p>
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There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-09-05 00:16:14 +0530 IST'>September 5, 2019</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<p>Preamble Philosophy has always been one of those baffling things that entice you at first by its simplicity, but as you get sucked into it more and more, you find yourself searching for the end of this labyrinthine landscape. I had my first exposure to anything related to philosophy in my second year of college when I stumbled upon The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. At the time, it was one of the fascinating books I had ever read....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2019-01-21 14:39:14 +0530 IST'>January 21, 2019</span> · 7 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-06-04 14:39:00 +0530 IST'>June 4, 2020</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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I have had a very curious relationship with religion, although now that I talk to others, it was a much more normal experience than what I led myself to believe. I followed the typical path of receiving a particular religion from my parents (born a “Hindu child”), which had a supporting role in my life up until my late-teenage/early-adolescent years.
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-03-18 22:14:21 +0530 IST'>March 18, 2021</span> · 4 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The college sophomore me would have been really excited about discussing vague notions of self and freedom and free will and morality and dreams - and don’t get me wrong, mid-twenties me is equally as excited about these things as my former self, if not more so - but the problem lies in the superficiality of it all....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-11-27 22:57:50 +0530 IST'>November 27, 2020</span> · 1 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-04-25 23:45:30 +0530 IST'>April 25, 2020</span> · 2 min · Siddhartha Golu</footer>
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The School of Life - a massively popular YouTube channel - used to be this source of solace in some turbulent times of my college life. It is not something that you’d think would be cheerful and uplifting - a quick glance at some of the most popular videos of the channel would include titles such as “Why we go cold on our partners”, “Why you will marry the wrong person” etc....</p>
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<p>I have a particular affinity towards this sketch as I was very apprehensive about attempting Einstein, his face had much more complexity than what I usually dealt with, but it turned out good enough in the end.</p>
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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