Fun Stuff
Books I Love & Recommendations
I love reading more than anything else in the world. Novels are by far my favorite:
All Time Favourites
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate - Robert Caro
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Hind Swaraj - Mahatma Gandhi
Favorite High Literature
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
- Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- To-morrow - Joseph Conrad
- Choli ke Peeche - Mahasweta Devi
- Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Favorite Science Fiction
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
- Thousandth Night - Alastair Reynolds
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
- Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
Favourite Indian Writing
- Stars from Another Sky - Saadat Hasan Manto
- The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
- An Interpretor for all Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Chaar Adhyaay - Rabindranath Tagore
- The Hungry Tide - Amitava Ghosh
Difficult Reads but Worth It
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro
- Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig
- Hind Swaraj - Mahatma Gandhi
For Those Who Haven’t Read In A While
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- The Shiva Trilogy – Amish
- Normal People - Sally Rooney
- The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
Quizzing
I am an active quizzer and the President of Ashoka University’s Quizzing Club.
Quizzes I Have Made:
Google Drive Link
Podcasts
I have recently started listening to podcasts and have really been loving the following:
- The Dwarkesh Podcast
- Acquired
- The Anurag Minus Verma Podcast
- Pod Save America
- Talking Politics: A History of Ideas
✍️ Blog Posts I’ve Written
I occasionally write (or at least try to):
Read my blog posts here:
I promise there’ll be more stuff here the by the next time you look at this 😭