Sunday, January 30, 2022

The reading list: January 2021 to January 2022

  1. Black Coffee (Agatha Christie)
  2. The Armchair Economist (Steven Landsburg)
  3. Call for the Dead (John LeCarre)
  4. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien) [reread]
  5. The Constitution of Liberty (Friedrich Hayek)
  6. A Murder of Quality (John LeCarre)
  7. The Possessed (Elif Batuman)
  8. Audition (Ryu Murakami)
  9. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John LeCarre)
  10. Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
  11. Smiley's People (John leCarre)
  12. Seeing Like A State (James Scott) 
  13. Incompleteness (Rebecca Goldstein)
  14. Emma (Jane Austen)
  15. Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
  16. The Essential Austrian Economics (Christopher Coyne and Peter Boettke)
  17. The Essential David Hume (James R. Otteson)
  18. The Essential Adam Smith (James R. Otteson)
  19. Persuasion (Jane Austen)
  20. The Essential John Locke (Eric Mack)
  21. Babel-17 (Samuel R Delaney)
  22. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (Samuel R Delaney)
  23. Rocannon's World (Ursula K LeGuin)
  24. The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle)
  25. The Looking Glass War (John leCarre)
  26. The Grand Pursuit (Sylvia Nasar)
  27. Dictators (Frank Dikotter)
  28. Who Moved My Interest Rates? (D Subbarao)
  29. The Economics of International Development (William Easterly)
  30. Planet of Exile (Ursula K LeGuin) 
  31. A Mathematician's Apology (G H Hardy)
  32. City of Illusions (Ursula K leGuin)
  33. Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
  34. Economical Writing (Deirdre McCloseksky)
  35. तट पर हूँ पर तटस्थ नहीं (कुंवर नारायण)
  36. Spy Stories (Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott)
  37. A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar) [reread]
  38. The Essential John Stuart Mill (Sandra Peart)
  39. The war that made R&AW (Anusha Nandakumar and Sandeep Saket)
  40. Five Little Pigs (Agatha Christie)
  41. Among the Believers (VS Naipaul)
  42. Crashed (Adam Tooze)
  43. Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers)
  44. The Postman Always Rings Twice (James M Cain)
  45. The Accidental Theorist (Paul Krugman)
  46. Individualism and Economic Order (Freidrich Hayek)
  47. New Spring (Robert Jordan) [reread]
  48. The Narrow Corridor (Acemoglu and Robinson)
  49. हमज़ाद (मनोहर श्याम जोशी)
  50.  अल्पाहारी गृहत्यागी (प्रचंड प्रवीर)
  51. The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan) [reread]

Friday, January 21, 2022

Wanted

From the film 'Nafrat ki Aandhi' (tr. 'Gale of Hatred). Composer Bappi Lahiri, lyrics: Indeevar and Anjaan.

...

ही मैन, ही मैन, आए ऐम ही मैन 

चाहिए... ही मैन ही मैन ही मैन 

 चाहिए... ही मैन ही मैन ही मैन 

मज़बूत बाहों वाला, 

प्यार करने वाला, 

मुझपे ही मरने वाला,

अरे प्यार करने वाला 

टुल्ल लुल्ल लू, टुल्ल लुल्ल लू, मामा चूमा वाला 

टुल्ल लुल्ल लू, टुल्ल लुल्ल लू, मामा चूमा वाला 

ही मैन, ही मैन, आए ऐम ही मैन 


इज़्ज़त पे मेरी बन आएगी 

जब छेड़ेगा रूप का चोर मुझे 

दुश्मन से कैसे बचाएगा 

उस वक़्त कोई कमज़ोर मुझे 

चाहिए... ही मैन ही मैन ही मैन 

 चाहिए... ही मैन ही मैन ही मैन 

...

He man, he man, I am he man

Needed... he man he man he man

Needed... he man he man he man

The one with strong arms

The one who loves

The one who'd die only for me

Oh the one who loves

Tull lull luu, tull lull luu, mama chuma wala

Tull lull luu, tull lull luu, mama chuma wala

He man, he man, I am he man


Imperilled will my honor be

When the thief of beauty accosts me

From my foe how will I be saved

That instant by some weak knee

Needed... he man he man he man

Needed... he man he man he man

...