The title of my blog post refers to the name of a Book whose author is Mr.Shashi Tharoor. Currently Mr. Tharror is the Minister of External Affairs in India. He was earlier part of the United Nations. It was a rumor earlier that he would likely be heading the United Nations. But, it did not turn to his favour, his colleague Mr. Ban ki Moon became the UN Secretary General. So, Mr. Tharror returned back to his hometown which is Kerala, India and stood for elections in the capital of Kerala. Kerala is the state with almost 100% literacy. People knowing his capability has willingly cast their votes to him. It so happened that none of the candidates who has stood in Tvm for election earlier has ever got votes more that 1 lakh and 30 thousand. Now, its time for him to show how good he can serve the people who has voted him.
Apart from being an official in UN, he is intrested in writing. He has written few books whose count I do not have. But, I would like to tell about the book I read. Its a non-fiction book, its a collection of all the reviews and the columns that he had contributed to the Newspapers. The book has nothing much to tell about the land Bhagdad, there was a mention of it only in two pages where in he encountered citizens in Baghdad who are book lovers selling their owned books for cheap price in order to survive.
In all the chapters I have come across many new things that I was not aware about. He has completely changed the illusion of US that I had in mind. Initially the chapters are about few famous authors whom he is the regular reader of. It has opened the pandora's box for me with all the famous writers and what their writing is about .
I have made the list of the authors whom Mr.Tharoor has referred in the book and I am targeting to know the authors, meaning to pull them out of their grave. Here is the list of authors
Apart from being an official in UN, he is intrested in writing. He has written few books whose count I do not have. But, I would like to tell about the book I read. Its a non-fiction book, its a collection of all the reviews and the columns that he had contributed to the Newspapers. The book has nothing much to tell about the land Bhagdad, there was a mention of it only in two pages where in he encountered citizens in Baghdad who are book lovers selling their owned books for cheap price in order to survive.
In all the chapters I have come across many new things that I was not aware about. He has completely changed the illusion of US that I had in mind. Initially the chapters are about few famous authors whom he is the regular reader of. It has opened the pandora's box for me with all the famous writers and what their writing is about .
I have made the list of the authors whom Mr.Tharoor has referred in the book and I am targeting to know the authors, meaning to pull them out of their grave. Here is the list of authors
Richmal Crompton - 'William'
Rudyard Kipling
- Kim- The wind done gone
Margaret Mitchell- Gone with the wind
P.G.Wodehouse- Carry On-Jeeves- Sam the sudden- Leave it to Psmith- The heart of the goof
Malcom Muggeridge- Something beautiful for God- Chronicles of wasted time
Roy Jenkins - Biography of Winston Churchill
Le Carre- The night manager- The secret piligrim- Our game- The tailor of Panama
Alexander Pushkin ( Russian)- The captain's daughter- Boris Godenov- The negro of Peter the great
Pablo Neruda (Chiliean)- Twenty love poems and songs of despair- Elementary Odes- Conto general
( Postman - film based on him)
Nirad Chaudhuri- Autobiographer of an unknown Indian
R.K.Narayan- The grandmothers tales
Rudyard Kipling
- Kim- The wind done gone
Margaret Mitchell- Gone with the wind
P.G.Wodehouse- Carry On-Jeeves- Sam the sudden- Leave it to Psmith- The heart of the goof
Malcom Muggeridge- Something beautiful for God- Chronicles of wasted time
Roy Jenkins - Biography of Winston Churchill
Le Carre- The night manager- The secret piligrim- Our game- The tailor of Panama
Alexander Pushkin ( Russian)- The captain's daughter- Boris Godenov- The negro of Peter the great
Pablo Neruda (Chiliean)- Twenty love poems and songs of despair- Elementary Odes- Conto general
( Postman - film based on him)
Nirad Chaudhuri- Autobiographer of an unknown Indian
R.K.Narayan- The grandmothers tales
Earlier I used to go to the library and select book from from the set which is kept aside as read by others. Today I picked the book whose author is P H Wodehouse, there were only 8 books of his in the library and and do you believe the book that I borrowed "The eighteen carat kid and other stories" was first borrowed by someone in the year 1987.
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