Monday, December 31, 2018
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Sunday, December 16, 2018
Book of the day-18: THE REPUBLIC by PLATO (Audiobook)
The Republic by Plato (Audiobook)
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Friday, December 14, 2018
Thursday, December 13, 2018
Book of the day-17: Too Soon to Say Goodbye by Art Buchwald
When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop “salon” for his family and dozens of famous friends, and confronting things you usually don’t talk about before you die; he even jokes about them.
Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experience–as dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the party–but also his whole wonderful life: his first love, an early brush with death in a foxhole on Eniwetok Atoll, his fourteen champagne years in Paris, fame as a columnist syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and his incarnation as hospice superstar. Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann.
He plans his funeral (with a priest, a rabbi, and Billy Graham, to cover all the bases) and strategizes how to land a big obituary in The New York Times (“Make sure no head of state or Nobel Prize winner dies on the same day”). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Martha’s Vineyard and how he acquired a Picasso drawing without really trying.
What we have here is a national treasure, the complete Buchwald, uncertain of where the next days or weeks may take him but unfazed by the inevitable, living life to the fullest, with frankness, dignity, and humor.
“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.”
–Tom Brokaw
Art Buchwald was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and raised in Hollis, Queens. After serving as a marine in the Pacific during World War II and attending the University of Southern California, Buchwald left the United States for Paris. There, he landed a job with Varietymagazine and began writing his now-legendary columns, syndicated for decades in hundreds of newspapers. He received the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding commentary in 1982 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986. He was the author of thirty-three books, including the New York Times bestsellerLeaving Home, a collection of political commentary, Beating Around the Bush, and a memoir, Too Soon to Say Goodbye. Buchwald died in the Winter of 2006.
Grateful thanks to Tom Brokaw and amazon.in.
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Awards and Honours-1: Tamil Popular Writer, Mr.S.Ramakrishnan, wins Sahitya Academy award
Tamil Popular Writer, Mr.S.Ramakrishnan, wins Sahitya Academy award for his novel, "SANCHARAM".
Hearty congratulations to him.
Many thanks to The Times of India, English Daily
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