Arun

https://www.goodreads.com/arie_safari

Arun’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (32)
currently-reading‎ (2)
read‎ (104)
favorites‎ (19)
non-fiction‎ (11)

science‎ (11)
man-booker-shortlists‎ (8)
historic-fiction‎ (6)
favourite-books-of-all-times‎ (5)
indian-books‎ (5)

banned-or-controversial-books‎ (3)
hindu-literary-prize‎ (3)
man-booker-winners‎ (3)
pulitzer-winners‎ (3)
philosophy‎ (2)

sahitya-akademi‎ (2)
orange-prize-for-fiction‎ (1)
satire‎ (1)
whitbread-book-awards-costa-award‎ (1)
man-asian-short-listed-books‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Arun is Currently Reading

Arun is currently reading

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

by Amartya Sen

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jul 10, 2016 10:03PM

Arun is currently reading

The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power

by Shashi Tharoor

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

May 19, 2016 05:21AM

Arun’s Quotes

“Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: memory

19 likes

“I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness; they are like stubborn relatives who invite themselves over even when you've made it clear that they are unwelcome.”
― Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Eunuch Park : Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruct

tags: memories

2 likes

“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

tags: autonomy

199 likes

“Madness has no sense of humour”
― Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze

tags: humour, madness

7 likes

“Hatred . . . When it comes to men and sex, David, nothing surprises me any more. Maybe, for men, hating the woman makes sex more exciting. You are a man, you ought to know. When you have sex with someone strange - when you trap her, hold her down, get her under you, put all your weight on her - isn't it a killing? Pushing the knife in; exiting afterwards, leaving the body behind covered in blood - doesn't it feel like murder, like getting away with murder?”
― J.M.Coetzee, Disgrace

17 likes

More of Arun’s quotes…