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Genzaburo Yoshino’s How Do You Live?
Book Review By Dr. Shruti Shankar Gaur That’s an interesting title, I thought to myself. I have believed no one can teach us ‘how to live life’ better than the ‘life’ itself. Think about it—school focusses on building scholastic attributes, and family, knowingly or unknowingly, instills values and beliefs. But are those values really worth…
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December & Orwell
It’s the last month of the year. A time to reflect, take it slow and prepare ourselves for the newness that life has to offer. But before that can happen, we need to empty ourselves. And that’s easier said than done. Well, I have developed a few coping mechanisms. I have recognized the magic of…
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Gandhi & Inclusion – Part I
Our Shame What is our shame as an individual? What is our shame as an Indian? What is our shame as a global citizen? The shame is that the social evils for which reformers, educationists, and visionaries across generations and continents, laid their lives be it Socrates, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Martin Luther King Jr.…
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No One Right Way – My Ishmael
Indeed, there’s no one right way 😊 ‘No one Right Way – My Ishmael’ is based on my unindented thoughts post reading Daniel Quinn’s My Ishmael.
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The Unfinished Symphony
Unfinished is an unparallel story of courage and discipline by none other than Priyanka Chopra Jonas. In her raw style, she unabashedly evokes the fearlessness of seizing every opportunity and creating a league of her own.
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Write Sideways: Always
Do you want to be a Martian Anthropologist? Have you heard the term ‘Alertness to Nonsense’? You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. If any of the above three sentences aroused any curiosity in you, its time to read Daniel…
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Uncovered: George Orwell’s 1984
Reading a George Orwell book is DANGEROUS 1984 is no different. In his typical critique style, Orwell knitted the story of a society in unprecedented times mixing satire, dark humour, and metaphor to showcase fascism as the world of Big Brother, the totalitarian government order where one even breathes only when told to. ‘BIG BROTHER…
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The First of Four Agreements – Being Impeccable with Words
The First of Four Agreements explores the first agreement discussed in the book The Four Agreement by Miguel Ruiz along with my life’s journey and experiences trying to be ‘impeccable with words’.
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Wintering: An Exploration Of The Cold
A Piece by Dr. Shruti Shankar Gaur based on Katherine May’s Wintering I am a summer baby. I love the sun. And I am not much pally with winter. Still, every year winter is forced upon me. I am clueless and rudderless. It scares the hell out of me. Winter is like: my body stops…
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From Becoming to Belonging
Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Book Review by Dr. Shruti Shankar Gaur I picked ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama out of curiosity. She is a well-known tabloid face as the ex-first lady of the United States of America. I was intrigued to read the story of the woman behind Barack Obama. She couldn’t be ordinary, I thought. Her…