Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Patriots and Partisans

Author - Ramachandra Guha
Genre - Politics, Society, Academic, Research, Media, Magazine, Congress, RSS, Communist Parties, BJP, Nehru, Gandhi, Mahatma, MK Gandhi, Press.
Source - Print
Rating - 4
Read - July 2015

The gift of Ramachandra Guha is to present serious academic discussions to us, reasonably well-read non-academics, in a tone that is neither academic nor over-simplistic. It is to his great credit that the reasonably well-read non-academic can actually read his points-of-view, and digest them well enough to create a coherent opposing view. Reading Ramachandra Guha is a gift - even if one disagrees vehemently. I was about to point out a few chapters that are must-reads, but there are way too many. Buy it. Read it.

Saturday, December 28, 2013

India After Gandhi

Author - Ramachandra Guha

Genre - History, Politics, Society, Non-fiction

Source - Print

Rating - 5

November 2013

Re-read. This should be re-read once every year. Masterful. A page-turner, it reads like a thriller. Even on the second read.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

The City and The City

Author - China Miéville
Genre - Science Fiction, Detective, Society, Cops

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

April 2013
I am lucky in that I have read quite a few extraordinary books this year. This is certainly one of them. A masterpiece of the genre. Miéville is the superstar of the genre, and I was intrigued to find out why. Now I know. His acclaim is well deserved - This is top notch social commentary, a breakneck, hurtling detective story, and the best sci-fi novel I have read in a long, long time. Please read. Highly recommended.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Netherland

Author - Joseph O'Neill
Genre - Cricket, New York, Society

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

March 2013
This is incredible. This book tells me that I am relevant. Best book I read this year.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Pride and Prejudice

Author - Jane Austen
Genre - Romance, Classic, Society

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

March 2013
Beautiful. I read (listened to) this with a lot of apprensions - I don't like classics per se - but really, this is beautiful. It did not move me, it did not embrace me with its language; but all that is trivia. It engaged me. It was 14 and a half hours well spent.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Author - Jared Diamond
Genre - Society; History

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

Oct 2012

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

Author - Niall Ferguson
Genre - Society; History

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4

Sep 2012

The Ascent Of Money

Author - Niall Ferguson
Genre - Society; Ecomonics, History

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

May 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

Author - John Jantsch
Genre - Marketing, Business, Society;

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4

July 2012

Here Comes Everybody

Author - Clay Shirky
Genre - Society; Business; Economics

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4

May 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Why England Lose: and other curious football phenomena explained

Author - Simon Kuper; Stefan Szymanski
Genre - Society; Sports

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 4

Mar 2012

The Drunkard's Walk

Author - Leonard Mlodinow
Genre - Society; Science; Strategy

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 3

Feb 2012

The Next 100 Years

Author - George Friedman
Genre - Society

Source - Audiobook
Rating - 5

Jan 2012