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<title>Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women by Deepa Narayan</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:05:39 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>A powerful exploration into the psyche of Indian women and how society perpetuates the status quo</description>
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<title>Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/empire-of-pain/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:49:32 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/empire-of-pain/</guid>
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<description>If you want to understand how the opioid crisis began, read this</description>
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<title>So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/so-good-newport/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:04:13 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/so-good-newport/</guid>
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<description>A series of blog posts that unfortunately became a book. Not recommended.</description>
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<title>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/four-thousand-weeks/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:35:24 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/four-thousand-weeks/</guid>
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<description>A book about time and our relationship with it. Recommended.</description>
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<title>After Life (1998) by Hirokazu Kore-eda</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/after-life/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2022 22:41:55 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/after-life/</guid>
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<description>An interesting take on life, seen through the lens of afterlife. Highly recommended!</description>
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<title>Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/life-between-buildings/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:04:49 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/life-between-buildings/</guid>
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<description>A gentle introduction to the study of buildings and the way they enable societal interactions.</description>
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<title>3 Iron (2004) by Kim Ki-duk</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/3-iron/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:46:40 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/3-iron/</guid>
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<description>A film where everything is conveyed through glances.</description>
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<title>The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/the-way-we-eat/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 10:43:25 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/the-way-we-eat/</guid>
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<description>The ethical dilemma of eating. Highly recommended!</description>
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<title>Shame by Salman Rushdie</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/shame-rushdie/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:55:02 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/shame-rushdie/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/running-murakami/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:09:56 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/running-murakami/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>Annihilation of Caste(Annotated Edition) by Arundhati Roy</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/annihilation-of-caste/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 22:56:47 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/annihilation-of-caste/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>Photography</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/photography/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:18:21 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/photography/</guid>
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<description>My fascination with the visual media brought me closer to seeing the world through a different lens. This is an ongoing effort to capture what I see and share it with the world.
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You can browse the images below using left/right keys. All the images are hosted on flickr, I&rsquo;d recommend navigating to my photostream if you want to see them in full size. 1
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You might need to enable Javascript if you&rsquo;re unable to see the images properly.</description>
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<title>Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/parenting/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:14:21 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/parenting/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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As is the norm for every child brought up in religion, I used to consider myself special believing that I had a &ldquo;personal relationship&rdquo; with God.</description>
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<title>Winter Sleep (2014) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/winter-sleep/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:30:40 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/winter-sleep/</guid>
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<description>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
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Over the years, I have increasingly gravitated towards films where supposedly &ldquo;nothing happens&rdquo;. 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&rsquo;s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different.</description>
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<title>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/anatolia/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2021 22:44:49 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/anatolia/</guid>
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<description>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&rsquo;ve been accustomed to till date. What you get is a completely different take on the trope.</description>
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<title>Riding Solo to the Top of the World (2006) by Gaurav Jani</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/riding-solo/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:53:01 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/riding-solo/</guid>
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<description>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.</description>
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<title>I Do What I Do by Raghuram Rajan</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/i-do-what-i-do/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2020 09:24:30 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/i-do-what-i-do/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>Waking Life (2001) by Richard Linklater</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/waking-life/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:57:50 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/waking-life/</guid>
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<description>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd
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There are films which you wish you had watched earlier in life, and there are others which don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.</description>
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<title>Azadi by Arundhati Roy</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/azadi/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:22:13 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/azadi/</guid>
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<description>A series of essays on the bleak reality in India. Highly recommended.</description>
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<title>Stoner by John Williams</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/stoner/</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 19:45:36 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/stoner/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>A Beautiful Woman</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/a-beautiful-woman/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:26:51 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/a-beautiful-woman/</guid>
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<description>I don&rsquo;t know why, but I liked the eyes-only version more. Linked below is the work-in-progress sketch:</description>
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<title>Martin Freeman</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/martin-freeman/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:20:16 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/martin-freeman/</guid>
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<description>I used to be obsessed with Sherlock (the HBO show) during the time it aired, and part of my fascination was with Martin Freeman here, who so brilliantly played the role of Watson.</description>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/einstein/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:14:48 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>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.</description>
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<title>Mother Teresa</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/teresa/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:09:43 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Completely botched this drawing, but it reminds me of the drawing streak I used to have back when I was in my hometown during college vacations.</description>
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<title>Charlie Chaplin (um... not quite)</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/chaplin/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:01:36 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>I was either on acid or I had watched a sad movie before attempting this piece. A strange juxtaposition of Chaplin and Hitler.</description>
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<title>Gandhi</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/drawings/gandhi/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:51:23 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>My first attempt at drawing after dabbling in caricature pieces in my childhood :)</description>
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<title>Oslo, August 31st (2011) by Joachim Trier</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/oslo-august/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:39:00 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/cinema/oslo-august/</guid>
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<description>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Check out this review on Letterboxd
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Anhedonia. The Wikipedia entry for this word says:
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a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.
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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.</description>
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<title>Bad Blood by John Carreyrou</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/bad-blood/</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 23:39:18 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/bad-blood/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>Fear</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/scared-in-lockdown/</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:45:30 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/scared-in-lockdown/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Instagram
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I&rsquo;m scared.
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No, not because there&rsquo;s a pandemic going on,
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even though that itself is enough
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to make one lose their mind.
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There&rsquo;s another deadly virus crawling
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its way into my whole being.
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Slowly eating away at my sanity,
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feasting on my thoughts,
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mutating inside my head as if a colony of ants was given
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an open invitation to a room full of sugary syrup.</description>
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<title>Waking Up by Sam Harris</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/waking-up/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:31:08 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/waking-up/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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A disappointing jumble of thoughts Disappointed.
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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 &ldquo;Consciousness&rdquo;, this one was a huge letdown.</description>
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<title>Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/glimpses-of-world-history/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 23:23:19 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/glimpses-of-world-history/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>The Darjeeling Limited (2007) by Wes Anderson</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:01:15 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Wes Anderson and his colorful quirks</description>
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<title>Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 22:28:18 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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Reasons you should read this book:
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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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<title>How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/great-music/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 22:05:06 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/behave-review/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:12:10 +0530</pubDate>
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<guid>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/behave-review/</guid>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>Range by David Epstein</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/range-a-review/</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:16:14 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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.
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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&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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<title>Deference vs. Indifference</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:27:30 +0530</pubDate>
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Deference vs. Indifference There used to be a time
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when things used to be simple.
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I&rsquo;d wake up, rub my eyes, sit up straight, close my eyes,
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And pray that He will continue to guide me
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as He had done the previous day.
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There used to be a time
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when I used to love the aroma
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of the stick when it burned,
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lighting up my day with the secret enchantments,</description>
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<title>The Course of Love by Alain de Botton</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:21:45 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>Check it out on Goodreads
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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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<title>The Stranger and The Plague by Albert Camus</title>
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<link>https://www.siddharthagolu.com/posts/reading/the-stranger-and-the-plague-a-review/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:39:14 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>On my journey to learn more about philosophy - the first step into the realms of existentialism</description>
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<title>About Me</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:16:16 +0530</pubDate>
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<description>(See this picture on flickr)
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&ldquo;Tell me about yourself.&rdquo;
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I have always dreaded this question. It doesn&rsquo;t matter which setting I&rsquo;m in - a social gathering, an interview, or while traveling - I invariably become visibly flabbergasted when people introduce themselves to me which is followed by the silent expectation that I&rsquo;d return the favor and say something about myself.
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So to solve this little problem of mine, I came up with this unoriginal idea.</description>
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