A Strange and Sublime

umm .. yeah .. yeah .. AWESUM ..

when i started reading it seemed like another run to the mill novel .. some family descriptions some non descript ramshackled values and ethical melodrama : but as the narrative progressed the words melted into each other as if there was no LOC in Kashmir , the adjectives are blissfully appropriate and some lines are as good as dickens ( for him it is said you cannot replace any one of his words : so nicely has they been used) ..

book quote : "Monday came like fever"
man what a description .. i truly am a fan right now .. the book has swept me off my feet and i usually am slowing down in reading each and every line just as one slowly devours the perfect taste of a roasted cashew or almond .. hopefully the trend will continue ..

will keep updating ..

lead me into knowledge .. ahem

my list .. here it goes .. i recommend this to every indian who reads .. hey guys we should give some time to our very own authors .. attached to Kolkata or Bihar each one of these is a gem of a writer .. the style may vary from meticulous to rustic .. slick to sober .. but each one is damn good ..

Just like u cant live without each member of a family .. though how much different among themselves they may be .. each genre has a "dna" of its own .. the old raj system .. forlorn forts .. 55% agrarian community .. middle class values and wat not .. the soup has everything .. so very indian .. so very intense .. so very close to heart .. thats how i find these writing ..
here goes the grammy of our very own --

1.Vikram Seth - A suitable Boy
2.Arundhati Roy - God Of Small Things(97)
3.Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children(Booker , Booker of Booker's 93)
4.Kiran Desai - Inheritance Of Loss(Man - Booker 06)
5.Amitav Ghosh - Circle of reason
6.Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
7.Amitav Ghosh - The Calcutta Chromosome(96)
8.Upamanyu Chatterjea - English August: An Indian Story
9.Rohinton Mistry's - Such a Long Journey(90)
10.Rohinton Mistry's - A Fine Balance(96)
11.Jhupa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies(99)
12.Raj Kamal Jha - The Blue Bedspread(2000
13.Raj Kamal Jha -If You Are Afraid of Heights(2003
14.Amit Chaudhuri - A Strange and Sublime
15.Amit Chaudhuri -Afternoon Raag

Hope to finish them in 30 days :) ..

the time comes to a screeching halt .. and then

it feels like a crossroad confluence where there are 10 different roads to tread along ar more correctly drag oneself to : but the matter of fact is the end is nowhere in sight , I am not new to all this but yes I react exactly the same way .. the half baked aspirations the irony of trying something half heartedly and failing by a whisker has been the USP of yours truly.. a marvellous example being getting a 99.3 wid a 83 in a section : proved closer to GOD that day .. had no fear only respite ..
so far so good ..
I am still not clear about my goals , my real fire : is it necesary that everybody has one or a perfect liking for only one thing .. See the world with all of its burdening population leaves no effect to be less rude .. it has always been like that and it always will be
wat is the right way .. i think a masters in the operations or IT specific is wat I need .. finance is not my cup of tea .. regular managers is not my cup of tea : but then the pertinent questions sneaks along : is there a cup of tea for me ?
Going by the book .. yes there is .. but wat I know one shud not go by the book, one shud never: i beg to emphasise never ever go by the book .Then wat shud u do with the book of learning -- hold the book in your right fist while you have the wind blowing throught the train window into ur face : the same train that leads you to the arabian sea where u have to throw the book far and wide in the ocean ..
expect the unexpected .. hope against hope .. do things out of box .. do not let the convent/state education tell u ur limits .. u are free .. do a lot to satisfy urself .. "satiation" should be the key of nirvana ..
PS : It all goes hands down to the one guy who read my hand and said once : " the lines are not clear .. means u can go to anyplace do any work ( while my elders peers and youngers were getting verdicts as steel , education , business) ..
PPS : End of story.