For Bejin Hakumei

Books read in the past year (Jan '10 - Jan '11):

1) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2) Kyaap - Manohar Shyam Joshi
3) Neuromancer - William Gibson (reread)
4) The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
5) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig (reread)
6) The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant
7) The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
8) Logicomix - Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
9) Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
10) Love Creeps - Amanda Fillipachi
11) Girl With Curious Hair - David Foster Wallace
12) The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
13) The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
14) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (reread)
15) Anathem - Neal Stephenson
16) Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
17) Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
18) The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
19) Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
20) White Noise - Don DeLillo
21) Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
22) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reread)
23) Maximum City - Suketu Mehta

Currently on the playlist:

1) Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
2) The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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A wonderful review of Kuru Kuru Swaaha - probably the greatest literary work NF has ever read. Consider it an exhortation to read this unfairly, impossibly, obscenely brilliant book.

Take that redux

Lucknow has become obscenely beautiful. So much so that it hurts the eyes. So much so that it's a blot on the consistently impeccable third world, poorest-nation-in-the-world credentials of India.

Just plain unfair!

Take that you Dilliwallahs! Take that!