Books i read in 2009

I munch The Man who knew Infinity & Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen.
Apart from this i am on a systematic diet of Ananda Vachanamrtam after doing Idea and Idealogy and Anand Sutram.The seminar notes and the cheap literature not to be counted.

My impressions about Argumentative Indian.
An amazing book which not only defines your thought about the topic but also defines the kind of impact a book can have on your thinking and subsequently on your life.I am through with 5 sets of essays.The first part mainly about religion and culture in India.


The part i completed just now was Sen's essays on Tagore.Rabindranath Tagore, all my impressions about him were from the nationalist's perspective.Whenever i occupied the debate chair,i had a very shallow view of Tagore.As a guy who philosophised in thin air being oblivious to the reality.I had him fit into the old image of poet that i had cheerfully built in.Offlate the my notion of poets or artists as meek dreamers has been moulded greatly.But still my notions of Rabindranath Tagore needed to be moulded greatly.Contrast of Tagore and Gandhian views on celibacy and sex was where i started to read the chapter.In a sense this essay captures a lot about the personality.I always say people not to limit but for sure speak out their impression about things.In this light Tagore for me is a weak strong man with high intellectual capacity.A poet with charm and original insight.In the Anandamarga view wasnt he using great amoutn of the ability of the brain.He disintegrated into the vast sublime.He always was able to dismiss notions from words and rational.He saw humanism as a step towards perfection not he nationalism.A true champion Tagore but nevertheless a great orater is Amarty Sen
I leave the set 5 of the essays with a completely diffrent notion about Tagore,this notion is founded on both perspectives and stronger and deeper than the earlier one.

Also in between,i did The Munich Mannequins by Slviya Plath where she talks about perfection and describes Munich as the Morgue between Paris and Rome.It makes a great reading to demonstrate the issues which the modern American women confront.