Indian Summers: John Wright
After a cliche fest consisting of boring biographies on Sachin, Rahul, Ganguly and Sehwag, which were no more than a trivial narration of known events and newspaper articles pieced together, comes a very interesting book on the plumbings and inner-workings of Indian cricket. John Wright is an excellent writer and pens together a wonderful recollection…
Book Review: Man Who Knew Infinity – Robert Kanigel
A lot of people are fascinated about Mathematician Ramanujan. This fascination fascinated me. Why? Why the rush to know more about him? Is the layman qualified enough to know him? What sort of pleasure would I get in reading something, that I know fully well, I may not understand. Is there a human ego to contend here?…
Review: Shane Warne’s Autobiography
Shane Warne is the cricket version of Star Trek’s Jim Kirk. His story is very close to Star Trek’s theme of what it truly means to be human. Full of intuition, personality, gut, bravado, sleight of hand and most importantly guile. It’s a tragedy that he was not made captain and an even greater tragedy…
Imperfect — Sanjay Manjrekar Autobiography
Among the people who have over-thought about things, including the thing about over-thinking about things, I have over-thought the most about things. This is why I loved Manjrekar’s book because he is the quintessential over-thinker and he puts it in perspective with this passage in his book (its not purely relevant to cricket, but life…
Open — Andre Agassi
I don’t know if the Japanese or Germans invented a word to describe the splendid after taste one has after reading such a delightful book. They should’ve. The feeling is so awesome that it should be honored by a dedicated word for it. I kept thinking to myself “I am truly enjoying this. This is…
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand
There are no atheists in the jungle” — writes Vijay Kumar, the police officer who eventually killed the dreaded sandalwood smuggler and forest brigand Veerappan. This is obviously a rip-off on the American phrase “there are no atheists in a foxhole” — used to indicate that extremely stressful situations makes anyone a believer. Autobiographies generally…
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