HARMONY : SATISH BAGAL'S BLOG ON BOOKS AND BIBLIOPHILES

In an age in which reason is increasingly growing cynical and where we tend to run away from ourselves, writers and thinkers provide magical anchorage. They may not be always right and we may disagree with them. Still they offer us an opportunity to meditate on ourselves and on our world. In these sober moments we can look deeply into ourselves and may be, there we find possibility of our salvation. My blog talks about some great works of some great minds.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

“Knife: Salman Rushdie-----------Book Review

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     I have just finished reading Salman Rushdie’s latest book, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder”.     Amongst  contemporary wr...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Ezra Vogel : Deng Xiaoping and Transformation of Modern China

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Professors at the Harvard University are often foremost in exploring new subjects for writing books; accordingly, during the la...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Steven Pinker :Degenerate Past, Idyllic Present

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      How many times, during the last week, were you overcome with the  feeling that in general things are going from bad to wors...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Book Review “Ignorance”: Milan Kundera

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  Yearning to return to our native lands and original places of abode is not merely a noble feeling; it is also one of the strongest e...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

The Year of Lear: James Shapiro

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  I have never been a formal student of literature and never studied Shakespeare in class room. I read Shakespeare as I went along and th...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

Voltaire's Candide

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At last, a few days ago I could finish reading Voltaire’s “Candide”. Like many other classics in my personal library, “Candide” had lo...
Monday, March 18, 2013

“War and Peace”: From Literature to Subaltern History

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    “War and Peace”, both in terms of its scope and message is an extraordinary novel. It has a special significance in Tolstoy’s lite...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Two Hundred Years of "Pride and Prejudice"

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  Milan Kundera tells us that each great work of art and literature has its own inner voice and that its creator creates work while listen...
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