Sometime back I wrote a post about the books I read in 2025…As much as I like to believe I’m an eclectic reader, 2025 made my patterns impossible to ignore. I kept circling back to the same genres — not out of habit, but out of need. Each one fed a different...
If I had to describe 2025 in one word, it would be read. I read more than I ever have before — over 70 books, give or take a few that blurred into each other by the end. Paperbacks, hardcovers, Kindle pages, voices in my ears through audiobooks — stories followed me...
I’ve always believed that bookstores tell you a great deal about a city. They reveal what it values, how much time it allows for wandering, and whether curiosity is encouraged or merely tolerated. Bangalore, in many ways, is a city made for readers. Tucked between...
I have always been fascinated with human beings and their behaviour- regular and under specific situations. So, it was quite a natural shift in my reading habits too. The last two decades saw me pick up and read a lot of books from the psychology section. Well, it all...
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place, you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” – from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (1964) If it were up to me, homes will have a bookshelf in...
