by Rajesh C.Oza | Mar 20, 2018 | Books
The Roman poet Horace wrote the following: “carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” Although my Latin is weak, here’s a Wiki translation: “seize the present; trust tomorrow e’en as little as you may.” All humans seek a balance when they...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Jul 17, 2017 | Articles, Books, Fiction
SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS by Kanishk Tharoor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. 239 pages. Kanishk Tharoor is both a nomadic writer and a city-dweller. Currently making New York his home, Tharoor, as evidenced by his imaginative writing, is equally at home in other...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Apr 22, 2017 | Articles, Books
Jhumpa Lahiri. The Clothing of Books. Vintage Books, 2017, 72 pages. In India, you are sure to encounter students in uniforms on their way to school—youngsters wearing pressed white, grey, or blue cottons, sometimes set off by a solid or striped tie, almost always...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Nov 7, 2016 | Books
Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. By Amitav Ghosh. University of Chicago Press, September 2016. 196 pages. The Great Derangement is an important corrective in the oft-polarized dialog on climate change. Rather than take sides on the American...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Sep 13, 2016 | Books
INCARNATIONS: INDIA IN 50 LIVES by Sunil Khilnani. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 444 pages. Release date: September 20th 2016. I raced back to the table of contents after reading the opening paragraph of Sunil Khilnani’s engaging Incarnations: “India’s history is...
