September 3, 2018
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A question lingered about whether fiction did a better job of illustrating history. Arvind spoke about a work of fiction that showed how important the individual human struggle acts effectively as a mirror of human society. The book called The … Continue reading
August 27, 2018
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Ayush spoke about Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance. This book tells the story of the South African American entrepreneur who sold PayPal for $1.5 billion and the innovator who creates … Continue reading
August 20, 2018
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If you found all the conversation about philosophy interesting but you are hesitant to read the great minds, maybe pop philosophy would be a good place to turn to. Abhaya suggested that we read Justice: What’s the Right Thing to … Continue reading
August 13, 2018
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Imagine a world where Care is the guiding principle and Compassion the moral compass? This is what Indira spoke about and this set the tone of the entire BYOB Party. She chose a non-fiction that she considers to be her … Continue reading
August 6, 2018
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This time we hosted the BYOB Party with JustBooks at the cosy JustBooks library, Sahakarnagar. It was an extraordinarily intense set of discussions that we had. Srikanth talked about a book called Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. … Continue reading
July 30, 2018
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Bhavish spoke about Shikhandi by Devdutt Pattanaik. This book has been the subject of a couple of our previous BYOB Parties. Bhavish appreciated the way Pattanaik explored queerness in Indian mythology, revealing how Indians were remarkably casual about gender fluidity and the … Continue reading
July 23, 2018
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Roheet spoke about a book that has been described by many readers as chilling. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath who wrote under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas is the tragic story of a poet who loses her mental health. The … Continue reading
July 16, 2018
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Vatsal got a book called Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku. It explores ten-dimensional space and Kaku’s Theory of Hyperspace. The book was far too heavy to comprehend for us three-dimensionals and then … Continue reading
July 9, 2018
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Apurba is fond of reading remote narratives about obscure places and people. This time she chose a Hebrew writer called Isaac Bashevis Singer who wrote in Yiddish. Love and Exile is the story of Singer’s own life from his childhood … Continue reading
July 2, 2018
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Waseem got a book called I Am a Strange Loop: 0. It is Douglas Hofstadter’s first book, a cognitive scientist’s mathematical look at consciousness. The idea is that the idea of the self is, in fact, the result of an … Continue reading