Recent Books

My friend and I are participating in the 50bookchallenge and I have started enjoying reading one book after the other.

After Men who made new physics, I started reading Shashi Tharoor Shashi Krishnan Chandrashekaran Tharoor (Malayalam pronunciation: [ʃɐʃi t̪ɐɾuːr]; born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, author, former diplomat and public intellectual, who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is currently the Chairman of Committee on External Affairs. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and 2006 United Nations Secretary-General selection for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress, he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology. He has about two dozen titles to his credit and was awarded by World Economic Forum as "Global Leader of Tomorrow". 's "5 Dollar Smile". This is a compilation of early writings of Shashi Tharoor in his adolescence. So, you might find him attracted towards pretty girls, interest in sex topics and many things which disturb young adults. His writing style is good and it's really funny. He in his college days might be a kind of leader who must have been along with friends teasing, having fun, understanding junta and yet a leader, not the all prefect high standards that comes in book definitions.

The last one act play of a "Life of a Kutta" was amazing, it's set in the period of The Emergency (India) The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency across the country by citing internal and external threats to the country. when forced sterilization was done on males. This presents the time from the eyes of a dog who is converted to a man.

The title "5 Dollar Smile" refers to UN Post card featuring photo of a child from India, which seeks to donate 5 dollars and make him smile. It's a simple story of a boy with a charity. The stories are not conclusive, but many of them are thought provoking and sometimes reflecting with real world incidents as they happen and pass by.

Next book I read was Sudha Murty Sudha Murty (née Kulkarni; born 19 August 1950) is an Indian educator, author, and philanthropist. She is the Founder-Chairperson of the non-profit charitable organization Infosys Foundation. She is married to the co-founder of Infosys, N. R. Narayana Murthy. In 2024, Murty was nominated as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha on 8 March 2024 for her contribution to social work and education. Murty was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, for social work by the Government of India in 2006. In 2023, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India. 's "How I taught my Grandma and Other stories."

A very good book stressing on moral values and principles in life. Sudha Murty has narrated the incidents in her life in a very simple style for others to understand and follow.

The title refers to the story of her youth, when she used to say featured monthly story to her grandma and once in her absence her grandma felt helpless with her inability to read. Her grandma took a resolve to start learning and made young Sudha Murty as her guru. This has a very emotional touch at the end which relates to a student respecting her guru.

Another thing imprinted in mind is, she learnt from a charity work of not delaying things when helping people as help at the right time is proper and delay with it is not good.

Her story about meetings with J. R. D. Tata Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was a French born Indian industrialist, philanthropist, aviator and former chairman of Tata Group. and A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ( UB-duul kə-LAHM; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the president of India from 2002 to 2007. was very inspiring.

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Thanks, Vijay.

Senthil

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All the best for your quest!

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