10 episodes
Books and Other Things - Hinglish Book Review Podcast Abhijit Mahida & Kishore Manikar
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2 best friends discuss books and other things! Each week, we take a book, try to give both sides to it and also discuss other happenings in our life. We have reviewed books like 1984, The Great Gatsby, Deep Work, ShoeDog, The Invisible Man, Neti Neti and more in Hindi. Subscribe to follow us along every week and read with us.
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#10 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Abhijit and Kishore go on a rant about their inability to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude
Novel by Gabriel García Márquez.
They cite analogies and make fun of Google while ending the discussion on a note about Niel Postman's Amusing ourselves to Death.
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Musings #1 - Best of 2021
Kishore and Abhijit wrap up the year and discuss the best books they read in 2021 and what they plan on reading in 2022.
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BOT #8 - Neti, Neti by Anjum Hasan
We review Anjum Hasan's Net Neti, digress on the topic of Indian books vs Foreign ones and give our recommendations.
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BOT #7 - The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
We discuss The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells sort-of of because there's not much to say. But that doesn't stop us from saying random things to..well fill out time.
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BOT #6 - Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The last ball of the first over consists of us discussing Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman. A philosophical digression, some tech challenges but an overall pretty solid discussion of a pretty good book.
References:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
A Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Riding the Elephant by Craig Ferguson
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BOT #5 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby".
Recommendations:
Kishore -
1.) The Spirit of Enquiry: Notes of Dissent by T.M. Krishna
Abhijit -
1.) 6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee by Derek Sivers
2.) The Unlazy Way
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