An amazing weekend discussion on books in two parts. This time the highlight was more of women readers and new youth.
Part1: 2024 Reads
It was interesting to know how the interest, knowledge and preferences are changing over a period of time. A group who love the books from 'The Golden Age' and consider today's writers not up to the mark, leading us to discuss Ram c/o Anandi. Gen A have different taste altogether. Good to see that among them there are still those who would like to tap the knowledge and benefits from the well read seniors. Most of us like honey bees go from page to page and book to book as Philip Abraham Sir rightly said.
Then we had a break for the photo session, informal chitchat, know others and most important of all the Tea and Samosas.
Part 2: BOTM - The Golden Road by William Dalrymple: A very lively and intense discussion, with extreme opinions graciously accepted and heard by all was the highlight.
We are blessed to have author with great wisdom having the years, wars and historical events on his fingertips John Alexander Sir who could bring out errors and question the 'trivia' jotted by someone of Dalrymple's status. There were insigts from the world of journalism, local history, Mavelikkara Buddha, past battles especially the changes in Spain that were invaluable. Everyone felt that the book was not linear.
A question that remained was why are these not taught in our history syllabus? Why even in India it is taught that Double entry system of accounting was born in Italy? Why indian historians didn’t attempt to write anything on this topic especially on Pallava& chola empire & their efficiency in maintaining trade routes through the sea a full thousand years ago? Why is the silk route more glorified than the Maritime route?
An insightful evening indeed. Immensely grateful 🙏 to each one of you who made this happen.
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