Books – My choice may not be your choice
We are all as different as readers as we are in life. Not one of us is a clone. Like us, books too differ by way of authors, genres, writing styles, covers, titles, typography, plots, themes, beginnings, endings, middles, characters, incidents, and some of these differences may be there even in books by the same...
Not every virus goes around like a gangster
Books keep a close watch on everything around them. That is how they learn impossible tricks. No, this isn’t a joke. Books, I believe, have an innate AI working for them and they know intuitively where to reach and when. And if you’re open to new fantastical ideas, books even encourage a reader to go...
Idiot in a lockdown
Idiot. This one word tells you how most of us were made to feel during the lockdown. If you think I’m being unreasonable, just look at the sheer number of people who were updating and guiding you with facts that you never knew existed. Before you think I am trying to be cynical only towards...
Reading and three bones
We live in a world where formulas are most sought after. Formulas reign. From film makers to writers, from politicians to the common man on the streets, and from here to there and everywhere, the demand for formulas is high. It isn’t that this demand has appeared only now when the race to succeed and...
On Reading
A whisper-laden stroll Adrenalin push in the dark Conversation with a mole Flying kiss for a lark… Reading is more than this And those who give it a miss Wouldn’t know that infinity Is a word-filled city! . . . . . . Arvind PasseyWritten on 25 April 2019
Reading is an analog fine-tuner
O my luve is like a red, red rose And earthquakes can be read Because technology leads to hand-held devices where it is all Sweetly played in tune… …and this is what life is for non-readers. Robert Burns, seismologists, and tech gurus (and many more) create indecipherable concoctions when reading has not been fine-tuned. It...
