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<h2>Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women by Deepa Narayan
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<p>A powerful exploration into the psyche of Indian women and how society perpetuates the status quo</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-09-03 21:05:39 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 3, 2023</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5 min&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;🔖&nbsp;<a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/indian-authors"> indian-authors</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/feminism"> feminism</a></footer>
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<h2>Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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<p>If you want to understand how the opioid crisis began, read this</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2023-06-21 08:49:32 +0530 IST'>🗓 June 21, 2023</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;🔖&nbsp;<a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/audiobook"> audiobook</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/public-health"> public-health</a></footer>
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<h2>So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
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<h2 class="entry-hint-parent">So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
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<p>A series of blog posts that unfortunately became a book. Not recommended.</p>
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<h2>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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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>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 min&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;🔖&nbsp;<a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</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 · 🔖 <a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a> · <a href="/tags/productivity"> productivity</a></footer>
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<p>A gentle introduction to the study of buildings and the way they enable societal interactions.</p>
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<h2>The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer
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<p>The ethical dilemma of eating. Highly recommended!</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2021-09-01 10:43:25 +0530 IST'>🗓 September 1, 2021</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4 min&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;🔖&nbsp;<a href="/tags/review"> review</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/debating-ethics"> debating-ethics</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/animal-cruelty"> animal-cruelty</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></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> · <a href="/tags/favourites"> favourites</a></footer>
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<h2>Shame by Salman Rushdie
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
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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 · 🔖 <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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<h2>What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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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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<h2>Annihilation of Caste(Annotated Edition) by Arundhati Roy
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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 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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Now that I&rsquo;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 &ldquo;productive&rdquo; 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.</description>
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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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.</description>
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I find India really fascinating sometimes, even though I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ve conditioned ourselves to ignore the blatant reality and move ahead with an oblivious calm, living in shit and aspiring for the gold.</description>
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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 &ldquo;Hindu child&rdquo;), which had a supporting role in my life up until my late-teenage/early-adolescent years.
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|
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I had picked up this one thinking it to be an autobiography, and with an expectation that it&rsquo;ll cover Rajan&rsquo;s tussles with the government in more details. I was pleasantly surprised to find instead a good collection of technical essays covering the workings of RBI, and economics in general. If you&rsquo;re looking for a good explanatory work in the field of Economics (and especially those concerning India and its policies), you&rsquo;ll enjoy this.</description>
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|
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Reading fiction has always been a double-edged sword for me. Some of the most intimate moments I&rsquo;ve spent alone is while reading fictional stories, while at the same time, feeling a pang of disappointment for myself because I wasn&rsquo;t doing anything &ldquo;productive.&rdquo; Is this mere entertainment? Am I just escaping my real-life responsibilities and reading stories of make-believe? While I still haven&rsquo;t found sincere answers to these questions, I&rsquo;ve grown more confident of what I enjoy and what I don&rsquo;t, which has consequently helped me find peace with this conflict.</description>
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|
||||
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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.</description>
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|
||||
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|
||||
A disappointing jumble of thoughts Disappointed.
|
||||
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 &ldquo;Consciousness&rdquo;, this one was a huge letdown.</description>
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|
||||
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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.</description>
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|
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|
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|
||||
Reasons you should read this book:
|
||||
If you&rsquo;ve ever had a panic attack. If you&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</description>
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|
||||
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|
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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.</description>
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<title>Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky</title>
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|
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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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</description>
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|
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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 &ldquo;business-class&rdquo; style case studies.
|
||||
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&rsquo;s brilliant post on Anki (&ldquo;Augmenting Long-term Memory&rdquo;) and it was interesting to read about it formally in the book.</description>
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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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Why we go cold on our partners&rdquo;, &ldquo;Why you will marry the wrong person&rdquo; etc.</description>
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I had picked up this one thinking it to be an autobiography, and with an expectation that it’ll cover Rajan’s tussles with the government in more details. I was pleasantly surprised to find instead a good collection of technical essays covering the workings of RBI, and economics in general. If you’re looking for a good explanatory work in the field of Economics (and especially those concerning India and its policies), you’ll enjoy this....</p>
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<footer class="entry-footer"><span title='2020-12-19 09:24:30 +0530 IST'>🗓 December 19, 2020</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1 min&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;🔖&nbsp;<a href="/tags/non-fiction"> non-fiction</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/economics"> economics</a>&nbsp;·&nbsp;<a href="/tags/india"> india</a></footer>
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<p>A series of essays on the bleak reality in India. Highly recommended.</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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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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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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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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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>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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