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The Story of Philosophy  by Will Durant I'm reading this book these days and enjoying it so very much. I try and read one chapter of it daily and usually talk about it on my Instagram page where I have joined a challenge called #betterreadschallenge from the 1st of January. In this challenge you have to basically update your followers about the books you read everyday whether you get to read a hundred or merely five pages a day. I think this is a really great challenge as it pushes me to do at least a little bit reading everyday.   So this book covers the lives and works of all the important Western philosophers. And it's simply fascinating to read about these great thinkers as real people with real, exciting lives. Most of the times we get to know about these intellectuals with reference to the work they have produced without thinking of them as real human being made of flesh and bones, having relationships and all. So The Story of Philosophy is very useful as it le...

I started reading this book quite a while ago and it took me a lot of time to finish. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I just don't stick to reading one book at a time and start reading any book that comes my way. Yes, I'm quite desperate like that. The disadvantage of this is that I rarely finish any book quickly. Secondly, I had taken a huge break from reading books that are not related to my MPhil thesis, although I wanted to do so very much. But because I had t discipline myself and read the ones that would help me write my thesis better, Beloved got really neglected. Now, however, I've submitted my thesis and can spend all my time reading whatever I feel like. So I just managed to finish this one and it didn't really took me that long  to finish after that. Enough about me now, let's talk about the book itself.  It's a book about an African-American woman, Sethe, who used to be a slave and had had to escape her previous masters in order to...

Curfewed Night is an amazing memoir by a Kashmiri writer, Basharat Peer. Peer tells his painful life story combined with the sanguinary history of the valley of Kashmir. The book gives a comprehensive insight about the Kashmir conflict in an unbiased way. If you are interested to get an insider's perspective on the conflict then this is definitely the book for you.  I have been interested to read this book ever since I came to know about it from a class-fellow of mine. I have a great interest in the literature written about my part of the world, and I have been a fan of Pakistani literature for a really long time. But, unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to read anything on Kashmir and that is beyond sad as I belong to the part of Kashmir that has had accession to Pakistan. It is known as Azad Kashmir. Azad Kashmiris have a really strange relationship with the Kashmir issue, especially those who belong to my generation: They are constantly made aware of its existe...