Tag Archives: books

*Gasp*

By Arun | Published: December 30, 2009
It’s been long since I wrote about anything non-specific. I guess it’s a common symptom amongst bloggers from my generation (age jokes will draw ire). For me, it just stopped being so important to say anything, what with every major insight seeming pretty ciichéd and/or obvious by the time I got down to writing it. [...]
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JK Rowling is teh suck?

By Arun | Published: May 3, 2008
Orson Scott Card slams J.K. Rowling for her latest lawsuit.
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I don’t know

By Arun | Published: March 30, 2008
Today was the last day of Alfaaz, the literary festival at college. The last 2 days have been horribly busy, so I missed a lot of good stuff. I did make it to the book fair, though. I browsed around, found a lot of popular stuff, and some less common stuff, particularly from Yoda Press [...]
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Y’know, stuff, things

By Arun | Published: November 12, 2007
Welcome back to the second episode of Arun Unleashed (though I find myself less inclined to blog these days). Reading TP‘s Wyrd Sisters. I thought I’d finished all of the older Discworld stuff. Pleasantly surprised to have not. :-) For those of you that’ve been living under a very large rock, Radiohead has released their latest album, [...]
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I think I used to have a voice

By Arun | Published: October 24, 2007
Ah, I’m back. In a revolutionary fit of life changing, I have decided to try to be regular about blogging again. And as I type this out, I have completely forgotten everything that I wanted to blog about. Flup. Books. I got my hands on a few and, shockingly, read them. Going through a manic Kurt [...]
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Dear Dr. P. K. Kelkar …

By Arun | Published: July 19, 2007
There is something absurdly wonderful about being lost in a library. Just finished The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood). Fame well-deserved. On to Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (but hopefully not too soon).
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Kama Ruchi Lokat

By Arun | Published: May 20, 2007
Went out to Loka Ruchi today, way down Mysore Road. Amazing North Karnataka food. Brilliant time. Read Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Quite good (albeit somewhat morbid). Theme somewhat similar to Fight Club. This is the book his publishers found too disturbing to publish (Palahniuk, it seems, decided to write something even more disturbing to show [...]
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Things good and bad

By Arun | Published: April 12, 2007
Alas, Kurt Vonnegut is no more. Time I read Slaughterhouse 5. Currently on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Time, it is short, as the semester end nears. And it appears that I will be busy this summer. Not much else that is spectacularly worthy of reporting. Now to read about routing protocols in mobile, wireless, ad-hoc networks and [...]
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… and the day they stopped

By Arun | Published: March 25, 2007
Finished reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Rushdie) yesterday. ‘Tis very good reading, across ages. Should be made mandatory reading for children aged 6-10. I liked the Shadow Warrior Kathakali association particularly. Before that was the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon — keeps reminding me of Haddon Mirk). I’m [...]
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Pick a colour … Any Colour You Like

By Arun | Published: March 8, 2007
[A lot of this is going to sound hackneyed and childish. There is language that some might regret reading. Go away.] Whether working for two years before doing an MTech was a good idea is still somewhat an open question. Well, there are a lot of questions there, but one thing I got was perspective. Mundanely enough, [...]
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