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Author Archives: Dhiren
Richard Layard on happiness
I’ve grown to really like The School of Life. Last year I went to their, “How to read” class and it changed the way I look at books and my own reading habits. Looking at their list of courses, I’m sure I could attend more seminars; however, for now, I’m settling for their Sunday Sermons. [...]
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Faulks on fiction
I caught the penultimate episode of this excellent series, yesterday evening, on BBC2. It’s a treat for book geeks like me that never studied literature past GCSE stages. Label on the tin: Best-selling author Sebastian Faulks presents a major four part series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters. Check it out [...]
Foer on factory farming
I just finished reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. It’s crammed with facts and arguments about why we should eradicate or minimise meat from our diets. Foer’s extensive research and fact-based arguments primarily concern the — unquestionably diabolical — ramifications of factory farming in the US and the UK. Climate change, pollution, global famine [...]
Monthly Music #3
Creds Reading on the train is difficult – even at the best of times. I find it hard to get into books, especially on the way home from work, because of winter-induced lethargy and distractions-a-plenty: Teenage girls wagging, loudly on mobiles, about fat problems, boyfriend problems or both; baritone remarks about football, cars and IT [...]
Those who know
Credit “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein I often hear Einstein’s famous quote — frivolously used as a justification for laziness. Overly self-assured types often believe that their – God-given – creativity excuses them from studying the nuts and bolts of their profession. Personally, I think the most imaginative and creative people [...]
Rock out
OK, I promise this blog isn’t turning into a collection of crap YouTube clips. Really, I do promise; however, the clip above is quite immense. Normal text-based service will resume soon.
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Kafka on animals
Just started reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Meat Is Murder
I’ve been paying more attention to food recently. If truth be told, I’ve been “fussy” about food, in various respects, since I was sixteen. I was raised a Vegetarian, tried eating meat for three years, during my early twenties, and then settled for Pescatarianism. I kept fish in my diet for practicality: lunch with clients, [...]
Dot Kom
I read a good article in the Guardian Review this morning. Laura Miller, a literary journalist, documents how mainstream novelists are finally acknowledging the internet, as a life changing utility, instead of continuously trying to write timeless masterpieces, rooted in historic settings. Miller elaborates on how this behaviour, from old school types, is not new, [...]
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