October 8, 2018
by Neelima
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Akshay spoke about The Difficulty of Being Good, a book by Gurucharan Das. If there is an epic that probes into life’s difficult questions, it is the Mahabharat and Das goes back to the epic to look for answers to the … Continue reading
February 26, 2018
by Neelima
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Akshay Arora got a comic book in the last BYOB Party and he read it out. He did the same with XKCD: What if? by Randall Munroe. He describes the XKCD series as nerdy but deep, particularly with the way the … Continue reading
January 23, 2017
by Neelima
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There was a dash of sci-fi at the BYOB Party this time. Adi read the famous satirical novel Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. The protagonist Billy Pilgrim is the ultimate time traveler. Vonnegut himself was part of the military at … Continue reading
October 31, 2016
by Neelima
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LitSoc, whose coordinators were Vrinda and Taneea, co-hosted the BYOB Party at IIIT-Delhi. It was Professor Dheeraj Sanghi who facilitated it. The party threw light on what twenty first century teenagers read in Indian cities these days. There is a … Continue reading