Readings by book club members:
Amit:
·
Ethnic conflict and civic life- Hindu Muslim
relations in India / Ashutosh Varshney
o
This book deals with
Hindu Muslim conflict, its reasons and a comparative study taking examples of
cities like Lucknow, Aligarh, Surat, Ahmadabad, Cochin, Hyderabad; why in
certain cities ethnic violence takes place easily and why in other cities it
does not, having more or less same population ratio and similar political
system.
Deepali:
Messages from the Masters and Many Lives and Many Masters /
Brian Weiss
His books basically focusses on past life
regression. Dr. Weiss has helped thousands connect with their past lives and
experience tremendous healing and reveals how past-life regression holds the
keys to our present life.
Karthik:
·
Nethaji
100 – Hundred facts
o Incidents
in the life of freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose.
·
Sivaji
100 – Hundred facts
o Incidents
in the life of actor Sivaji Ganesan.
·
Thevar
100 – Hundred facts
o Incidents
in the life of freedom fighter Muthuraamalingath Thevar.
·
Hitler
o Collection
of incidents in the life of Hitler.
·
Zero
Degree / Charu Nivedita
o ZERO
DEGREE stands out as a groundbreaking work of Tamil transgressive fiction that
unflinchingly probes the deepest psychic wounds of humanity.
Pratibha
·
The
Rebellious Enlightened Master: OSHO / SWAMI GYAN BHED.
o SWAMI
GYAN BHED is an ardent disciple of Osho and he made an earnest attempt to
present the true account of the life and saga of Osho (i.e. Acharya
Rajneesh) This book gives a brief
description of Osho right from his childhood till his death.
Osho was a very intellectual person with bright vision of philosophy
Osho talks about the religion and western / eastern
philosophy. According to him philosophy means to think . Many
renowned gurus and babas consider Osho as god as they believe Osho is a avatar
of buddha and shankaracharya. He also remembers the incidents happened
700 years ago and he visualise the future too.
Vignesh
·
Technical books related with his work
Vandana
·
Come
On Inner Peace! I don't have all day! / Sachin Garg
o Samar Garg lost his peace after his beloved passed away.
Navya Sharma abandoned her peace in the hands of drugs. Vandana doesn't want to
let go off her peace, but destiny has other plans for her. We are all looking
for peace of mind. So are they. An adventure which began at the Ashram, in
Rishikesh, becomes one of the most soul crunching journeys ever.
I wouldn’t recommend this book for reading. The plot of the
story is not clear. There is no sequence to the story.
However, after reading this book my wish to go to Rishikeh
once again got revived. I have this wish of staying for few days at a religious
place just to relax my mind. Rishikesh is on the top of my priority list.
While discussing a book From Dongri to Dubai, We touched upon
a very interesting topic for discussion, viz. Freedom of Speech. Do we really
have freedom of speech? can we truly & honestly say what we wish to say
sans fear??..This is slightly debatable. There are people who write about
current happenings, politicians, gangsters, famous personalities, etc. (Of course,
when you say something, it has to be backed by certain facts). But one cannot deny
or forget that they are aware of the consequences, it is not that they live
life freely. They are threatened by external forces….
Vis-a vis, even common people like us don’t have freedom of
speech. We would think twice before giving a true and honest verdict. I think we
are bound by people’s emotions. We would not want to hurt other person’s
feeling and end up giving a false picture!!!!!!!..This can be harmful at
times..
Anyone wish to add???
