[This article is based on my reading of How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton] There is a nagging guilt conscience that comes with the thought that one should have at least read a book from an…
Love Life Cycle: Part 2
[This article is based on my reading of Essays in Love by Alain de Botton and is a sequel to Love Life Cycle: Part 1. This article compared to its predecessor has been much more difficult to write hence the…
Maradona and our Love for the Tormented Genius
Weeks after his death I was still trying to figure out why Diego Maradona is arguably the best footballer EVER. Months have passed since the first draft of this post but I think I’ve drawn closer to somewhat of a…
The Best I Read in 2020
With the unprecedented pandemic and lot’s of downtime at home, this year was set up just right for crushing this year’s Goodreads reading challenge. Though I never got through the one book a week target had set for 2020, it…
Reading and Writing is Opinion Football
Football is by far the most widely watched sport in the world except for a not so silent minority who prefer to call it soccer. Two teams of 11 contesting for supremacy while either a small crowd or the rest…
On Strength Training: Redemption of a Gym Sceptic
To be frank, most of my life I’ve been rather sceptical of the gym folk and honestly only set foot in a gym a handful of times, let alone lift weights. Been there out of curiosity just to see what…
Damn. We Were Born Too Soon
Watching SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launch off to the International Space Station (ISS) a fortnight ago, I couldn’t help but think that I was born too soon. It was a celebration for humankind but still, I had that nagging thought of…
Love Life Cycle: Part 1
[This article is based on my reading of Essays in Love by Alain de Botton] There are fewer more cliched topics than love. Despite being deeply rooted in popular culture, it still remains rather amorphous. Finding the distilled true meaning…
Science Has Lots of Answers But Not All, Yet.
A fundamental part of the human condition has always been to make sense of the world around us. From the mundane to the existential, everything was once mystical, superstitious and the instruments of a handful of gods and spiritual entities;…
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
First published in 1884, Flatland has always been centuries ahead of its time and rightfully deserves its place immortalized as a classic. The book was written by schoolmaster Edwin Abbott who wrote forty-five books in the classics, history and theology,…