It was my birthday recently and I received a gift voucher from my family to buy what I want from Amazon. I have a choice of buying some books – that I may not afterwards read – and a pair of jeans that I need badly. I have more than 500 books already and I […]
Monthly Archives: February 2022
I just learned that I don’t know how to read
I have in my library in Mumbai and Pune more than 500 books. I am known to be a person who reads a lot and I did, when I was young, spend a lot of time with books. I am well qualified and have a blog (this one) and more than a thousand answers in […]
In Praise of Idleness
The above headline is the title of a famous and celebrated essay by Bertrand Russell. Link to browse the book at Amazon is below (not an affiliate link): But I have come across another much deeper and more succinct expression of the virtues of laziness in the following Hindi poem that I learnt in school. […]