The Osterman Weekend

A thrilling book while you read it. And you'll finish it in a few hours, because such is the build up. But its such a let down in the end.
And there is nothing to take home.

Thee Google Story

This is a book you simply cannot miss. Google is THE WORD doing the rounds in the techno circles today. Everybody is listening to what google has to say or is guessing what google will do?
This book will take you through the life of Google, how it changed from a noun to a verb, how it transformed from a startup to a behemoth thats challenging the likes of Microsoft today.
It is indeed an inspiring story and is as fast paced as the company itself,
By the time you finish reading this book, Google would have come up with 10 other things. A million other techno startups would be working on a million new ideas.
What could be more exciting than the internet eh? Well, i guess thats question we all wish we knew the answer to.
Someone surely does. And only time will tell.

English August

English August is about a young man Agastya Sen, who is called August partly because of his fondness of the english language and partly because of his mixed blood. I have to thank my friend ananth for recommending the book. I took a while to finish it, but that was because i enjoyed every page and literally soaked it in. Humour in this book is not garish, but very subtle and at times funny not because of the humour but simply by the nakedness of the thought expressed contributed mainly by Augusts wild imaginations.

The book takes us through the life of city bred August as it transforms from the buzz of the city to the quite ramblings of a small town in rural india. August, who is a poet at heart, a student of english literature, who carries marcus aurelius and the gita with him, cannot relate to his job in the Indian Administrative Service or his surroundings. Augusts life is all about "being happy", and that meant drugs, women and good literature. And civil Services and Madna as he realises are not close to any of these. Viewing Madna through his eyes and living through his wild imaginations is simply an entertaining ride. And the shift from the city to Madna and the characters that have been brought to life by the author are extremely real and to someone who has been to india its something one can easily relate to.

The book has also been release as a movie. If you dont get to read the book, make sure you watch the movie.