The Inscrutable Americans

A good book. described what i think i have already read a lot about, I think most of us have. but anyways a funny enough story.. A book I want my mom to read.

The Romantics - Pankaj Mishra

I'm reminded of Pink Floyd. It goes so much beyond logic, it beats all logic, by the sheer simplicity and the flow. A very chilled book, it reminds me of my Gang in Chemical, IIT Bombay. We used to fantasize about how we would leave everything, go to North, read up stay in Manali, smoke up and live a simple life with high thinking. He has taken it forward. later story. How he fails and finds what he thought he would, how hs journey in the untold confusion of certainty and nihilism, ends up with him experiencing emotions which he hadn't expected to, and he moves on in the same way. The story doesn't end with the book. A very soothing story. The phrases he uses to describe the usual situations, suit so aptly. He uses the English language so perfectly.

Impressions

Delhi. When I first visited Delhi, I was 12 years old, and with my family. You know how it is. You don't know whats happening. People are taking you everywhere, to see this that, and you somehow have to find fun in everything that is happening, trying to find some games/ice cream.. There was terrible heat, we were in old Delhi which was crowded like people waiting to get to heaven. The roads were full, with vehicles of all kinds, auto rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, buses, bullock carts, etc. and no traffic signals. You can't imagine.

6 months ago, I went to Delhi to go to Ladakh. Stayed there for 4 days at a friends place in New Delhi. This time it was quite different. It wasn't that hot. It wasn't that crowded. It was with rules. Traffic Rules. Was with the University Road. The One with the Janpath. With Chandni Chowk. My My. What a place. The whole feel was different. There was a feel.
The article I wrote about it 6 months ago.. (http://sagar-gujju.blogspot.com/2008/06/dilli-durbar-so-having-listened.html)