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Sridhar Tayur
The original intention was to digitally capture my streams of consciousness, typically triggered by an article or book I may be reading, or a movie or TV or streaming show I may be watching. As I thought more about what these streams comprise of, I felt it was an opportunity to reflect playfully on various aspects of my life – academic research, leisure activities, collaborations and entrepreneurial initiatives.
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Book(s) I am Reading Now

Ranjit Hoskote. Ten Indian Classics.

Camillo Formigiatti. A Sanskrit Treasury.

David Szalay. Flesh

Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Chasing Homer.

Susannah Gibson. The Spirit of Inquiry.

John Cassidy. Capitalism and its Critics.

Laura Spinney. Proto.

William Dalrymple. The Golden Road.

A. Narayanan and S. Kapoor. AI Snake Oil.

Anil Ananthaswamy. Why Machines Learn.

Raphaelle Giordano. Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One.

David Brooks. How to Know a Person.

Byung-Chul Han. The Burnout Society.

David Chaffetz. Horses, Rulers, and Traders.

Quentin Tarantino. Cinema Speculation.

Orhan Pamuk. The Museum of Innocence.

Asko Parpola. Deciphering the Indus Script.

Salman Rushdie. Knife.

Michael Schulman. Oscar Wars.

Bob Dylan. The Philosophy of Modern Song.

Oscar Wilde. De Profundis and Other Prison Writings.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. Streets of Gold.

Wendy Doniger. The Rig Veda.

Joel P. Brereton and Stephanie W. Jamison. The Rigveda: A Guide.

Brock Yates. Enzo Ferrari: The Man and The Machine.

Emily Wilson. The Odyssey. The Iliad. Mocked with Death.

Simon Critchley. The Book of Dead Philosophers.

Romila Thapar. The Future in the Past.

Roger Moore. Bond on Bond.

Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw. The Quantum Universe.

Salman Rushdie. Victory City.

Joni Mitchell. Morning Glory on the Vine.

Jorge Luis Borges. Everything and Nothing.

Rod Phillips. 9000 Years of Wine.

Paul Mango. Warp Speed.

Annie Ernaux. The Years.

Nicole Yunger Halpern. Quantum Steampunk.

Peggy Mohan. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants.

Kory Stamper. Word by Word.

Ananyo Bhattacharya. The Man from the Future.

Paul Fischer. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures.

Arnold Weinstein. The Lives of Literature.

Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin.

John Le Carre. Silverview.

Andrew Blauner (Ed.). Now Comes Good Sailing.

Rebecca Solnit. Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. Power, for All.

Elizabeth Lesser. Cassandra Speaks.

Ronald C. White. Lincoln in Private.

Mark Twain. Roughing It.

David M. Friedman. Wilde in America.

Hans Christian von Baeyer. QBism.

Robert Iger. The Ride of a Lifetime.

John Burnside. The Music of Time.

Aaron Glantz. Homewreckers.

Michael J. Sandel. The Tyranny of Merit.

Ansgar Allen. Cynicism.

Kevin Brown. Reflections on Relativity.

Wolfram Eilenberger. Time of the Magicians.

P.J.E. Peebles. Cosmology’s Century.

Carol Anderson. White Rage.

Barbara Ehrenreich. Had I Known.

Kip Thorne. The Science of Interstellar.

Muriel Barbery. The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Arthur Koestler. The Sleepwalkers.

Brian C. Hall. Quantum Theory for Mathematicians.

Julian Barnes. The Man in the Red Coat.

Amitav Ghosh. The Great Derangement.

Aravind Adiga. Amnesty (A Novel).

Harold Bloom. The American Canon.

Daniel Silva. The New Girl.

Toni Morrison. The Source of Self-Regard.

Matthew Pearl. The Dante Chamber.

Hans Halvorson (Ed.). Deep Beauty.

Robert Menasse. The Capital (A Novel).

Sheldon Pollock. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men.

Mathias Énard. Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants.

Joshua D. Mezrich. When Death Becomes Life.

Anthony Horowitz. Magpie Murders.

Robert B. Griffiths. Consistent Quantum Theory.

 

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