What book are you reading?

[_NOBODY_]

Family is coming to pak, next year, let me know what books you want will have them tcs to you.

I can also Amazon prime them if brick and mortar fails.

If you live in lahore , you can pick them up. You have my discord l, send me the names and I will make it happen.

It will be a gift , no charge and no strings attached.

Thank you so much brother but you don't have to do this. For now, I will try to finish the books that I already have.

 

[Ali_Baba]

"Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings" ( ISBN-13 = "978-3836576253" )

damn interesting !!! recommended for sure.

 

[WildApache]

Not for all ,but a fantastic read if your into this genre .




The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim, takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the evil men she brought into their lives to becoming a giant of the streets. A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.







Slim belongs to the knuckle-duster-in-the-face school of storytelling ― * Sunday Times *

Slim always told it as it was, without compromise -- Irvine Welsh

Pimp is hot and frantic, a remarkable tour de force of carnality and violence ― * The Times *

This brutally honest memoir . . . is as shocking today as ever. A precursor of 40 years of black-street culture, this is uncompromising and harrowing, but a landmark book nonetheless ― * Big Issue * Published On: 2009-03-02

Iceberg Slim does for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the thief ― * Washington Post *

Pimp is an eye-boggling netherworld documentary, a tear-arse tale of ferocious emotion, expressed through action ― * Q magazine *

Iceberg Slim always kept it real. It is blatant, uncompromising, and as close to the truth as you can get without going there yourself -- Ice T

About the Author​

Robert Beck, who used the moniker Iceberg Slim, was a major-league pimp who enjoyed serious success during the 40s and 50s. He decided to leave the pimping game having served his third and final stretch in jail. He moved to Los Angeles where he straightened out and began a career as a writer. Pimp was originally published in 1967.

 

[_NOBODY_]

"Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings" ( ISBN-13 = "978-3836576253" )

damn interesting !!! recommended for sure.

Have you read any other books on Leonardo da Vinci? If yes then which ones and how does this one compare to them?

 

[Ali_Baba]

Have you read any other books on Leonardo da Vinci? If yes then which ones and how does this one compare to them?

My new years resolution was to spend less time reading technical(computer science), military(aircraft ) books and focus on "normal" books. This is my first one. So i will be experimenting with the top 10 lists on amazon and seeing what I can find, etc ..

 

[_NOBODY_]

@RescueRanger I want to buy The Terror by Dan Simmons so badly. Sadly it isn't available on Readings, Liberty Books and BookaBook. I have requested Liberty Books to get me this book. Can you contact your friend in Liberty Books regarding this? My Request ID is: MF9-IGD-8624. I am dying to read books about sea expeditions either going horribly wrong or the crew having to face immense challenges.

 

[_NOBODY_]

My new years resolution was to spend less time reading technical(computer science), military(aircraft ) books and focus on "normal" books. This is my first one. So i will be experimenting with the top 10 lists on amazon and seeing what I can find, etc ..

I hate learning Computer Science from books. I prefer to learn about Computer Science topics through online courses, especially the ones on Coursera and edX. If you wish to give science fiction a shot then I will strongly recommend Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

 

[RescueRanger]

@RescueRanger I want to buy The Terror by Dan Simmons so badly. Sadly it isn't available on Readings, Liberty Books and BookaBook. I have requested Liberty Books to get me this book. Can you contact your friend in Liberty Books regarding this? My Request ID is: MF9-IGD-8624. I am dying to read books about sea expeditions either going horribly wrong or the crew having to face immense challenges.

I will speak with my friend Asif who bulk drop ships books to Pakistan, I will let you know if he can source the book quicker.

 

[_NOBODY_]

I will speak with my friend Asif who bulk drop ships books to Pakistan, I will let you know if he can source the book quicker.

By the way, have you read The Terror by Dan Simmons?

 

[peagle]

Calling all Pakistani bibliophiles, if you are struggling to find a particular book and would like it sourced you can contact https://bookabook.pk/ who can source the book and even order it from Amazon etc, the costs are not too bad, the main problem is delivery waiting times, but alas if you are looking for niche books not regularly stocked in bookshops this is a good website to use.

These days, ebay is also a good source for books, especially in the UK, the price difference can be quiet pleasant, especially those no longer in print, or less so.

Recently I purchased a book by Ayesha Jalal, it's been on my reading list for a while, I did not want to spend £40-50 for leisure reading material, but ebay delivered, it's always worth shopping around.

 

[peagle]

In a recent interview Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi mentioned a book The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson, it's gone on my immediate reading list.
Has anyone read it?



A national and, to a great extent, global consensus on India that has got built over the years is that the post- colonial India is a story of success of democracy in difficult circumstances of a developing capitalist economy. This story of success is garnished with references to a secular constitution in a country of many religions, a free press, an independent judiciary and a thriving intellectual community. To this portrait of India is added the name of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s national movement for independence, as a man of peace, and that of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, as a towering Third World leader who is credited with laying the foundations of modernising India out of a backward agrarian economy. Many of these claims are grounded in varying degrees of truthful capturing of some aspects of India’s economic and political reality but the problem emerges when the captured images are magnified to a scale that a gloried picture of India emerges and leads to theorisation and celebration of the ‘Idea of India’. It gives birth to what Anderson, using a term Marx had used for Germany, calls Indian Ideology. This Indian Ideology of celebration of the ‘Idea of India’ is shared, in different hues, by a vast majority of Indian intellectuals within India or settled abroad. India’s Hindu nationalist party (BJP) took this celebration many steps further some years ago by coining the slogan of ‘Shining India’. In these essays, Anderson sets up the task of not only unearthing the roots of this ideology but also interrogating the validity of the claims of this ideology and the political implications of this ideology. He accomplishes this task by focusing his lens on Gandhi, the partition of India in 1947 and the formation of the ‘independent republic’ under the leadership of Nehru.

The running thread that Anderson identifies as connecting three phases of modern Indian history- the struggle for independence led by Gandhi, the 1947 partition and the making of the Indian republic under Nehru’s leadership- is Hindu-tainted Indian nationalism. Through a close reading of Gandhi’s collected works (100 volumes) and historical studies of the Indian nationalist movement, Anderson establishes that Gandhi transformed the Congress party from an elite pressure group into a mass movement but did so by injecting ‘a massive dose of religion-mythology, symbology, theology- into the national movement’ (p. 22). Gandhi saturated the Congress’s mass ‘appeal with a Hindu imaginary’ (p.94), and contrary to the Indian historiography’s construction of Jinnah, the Muslim League leader, as the villain behind religious communalisation, Anderson shows that ‘it was not Jinnah who injected religion into the vocabulary and imagery of the national movement, it was Gandhi’ (p.93). In Gandhi’s dictum ‘If religion dies, India dies’ (p.94), religion meant Hindu religion. For him, the Ramayana, the epic on the life of Hindu God Rama, was ‘the greatest devotional work in all literature’ (Gandhi’s original words cited by Anderson, p.24).

The Hinduisation of the national movement resulted in the Congress party that led the struggle for India’s independence to become a predominantly Hindu party. Anderson points out that during the 1930s; only 3% of the party membership was Muslim (p. 94) in a country where Muslims constituted about 25% of the population. This Hinduisation of the Congress party contained within it the seeds of India’s partition on religious grounds between a Hindu-majority Hindustan and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. The Muslim fears about overwhelming Hindu domination once the Congress becomes the ruling party were not only not addressed, they were dismissed. Jinnah’s attempts to make the Congress agree to a confederal structure of governance that could keep India united were rebuffed, and resulted in Muslim League eventually pushed into seeking an independent Muslim-majority Pakistan (p. 67).

When independence came, to ‘hallow the solemn occasion, Nehru and his colleagues sat cross-legged around a sacred fire in Delhi while Hindu priests-arrived post-haste from Tanjore for the ritual-chanted hymns and sprinkled holy water over them, while women imprinted their forehead with vermilion. Three hours later, on a date and a time stipulated by Hindu astrologers’ (p. 103), Nehru gave his ‘tryst with destiny’ speech at the stroke of midnight on 14 August 1947. The Constitution that was drafted for the new republic was seriously Hindu-tainted. The symbolic insertion of ‘Bharat’ in the opening article naming the country; the provisions for strong centralisation supportive of Hindu nationalism; the active intervention of the state to consolidate Hindu identity through reform of the Hindu religion; the definition of ‘Hindu’ supportive of Hindu assimilation agenda towards Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs; cow protection; pre-eminence status for Hindi in the Devanagari script and special importance for Sanskrit are all features of the constitution which make its secularism seriously Hindu-tainted (for details, see my ‘Hindu Bias in India’s ‘Secular’ Constitution: probing flaws in the instruments of governance’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 909-926, 2005).

​

Review.
https://sikhsiyasat.net/the-indian-ideology-by-perry-anderson-a-review-by-pritam-singh-oxford/

@RescueRanger @_NOBODY_ @HRK @VCheng @Oscar @Quwa @ghazi52

 

[RescueRanger]

In a recent interview Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi mentioned a book The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson, it's gone on my immediate reading list.
Has anyone read it?

View attachment 7393

A national and, to a great extent, global consensus on India that has got built over the years is that the post- colonial India is a story of success of democracy in difficult circumstances of a developing capitalist economy. This story of success is garnished with references to a secular constitution in a country of many religions, a free press, an independent judiciary and a thriving intellectual community. To this portrait of India is added the name of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s national movement for independence, as a man of peace, and that of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, as a towering Third World leader who is credited with laying the foundations of modernising India out of a backward agrarian economy. Many of these claims are grounded in varying degrees of truthful capturing of some aspects of India’s economic and political reality but the problem emerges when the captured images are magnified to a scale that a gloried picture of India emerges and leads to theorisation and celebration of the ‘Idea of India’. It gives birth to what Anderson, using a term Marx had used for Germany, calls Indian Ideology. This Indian Ideology of celebration of the ‘Idea of India’ is shared, in different hues, by a vast majority of Indian intellectuals within India or settled abroad. India’s Hindu nationalist party (BJP) took this celebration many steps further some years ago by coining the slogan of ‘Shining India’. In these essays, Anderson sets up the task of not only unearthing the roots of this ideology but also interrogating the validity of the claims of this ideology and the political implications of this ideology. He accomplishes this task by focusing his lens on Gandhi, the partition of India in 1947 and the formation of the ‘independent republic’ under the leadership of Nehru.

The running thread that Anderson identifies as connecting three phases of modern Indian history- the struggle for independence led by Gandhi, the 1947 partition and the making of the Indian republic under Nehru’s leadership- is Hindu-tainted Indian nationalism. Through a close reading of Gandhi’s collected works (100 volumes) and historical studies of the Indian nationalist movement, Anderson establishes that Gandhi transformed the Congress party from an elite pressure group into a mass movement but did so by injecting ‘a massive dose of religion-mythology, symbology, theology- into the national movement’ (p. 22). Gandhi saturated the Congress’s mass ‘appeal with a Hindu imaginary’ (p.94), and contrary to the Indian historiography’s construction of Jinnah, the Muslim League leader, as the villain behind religious communalisation, Anderson shows that ‘it was not Jinnah who injected religion into the vocabulary and imagery of the national movement, it was Gandhi’ (p.93). In Gandhi’s dictum ‘If religion dies, India dies’ (p.94), religion meant Hindu religion. For him, the Ramayana, the epic on the life of Hindu God Rama, was ‘the greatest devotional work in all literature’ (Gandhi’s original words cited by Anderson, p.24).

The Hinduisation of the national movement resulted in the Congress party that led the struggle for India’s independence to become a predominantly Hindu party. Anderson points out that during the 1930s; only 3% of the party membership was Muslim (p. 94) in a country where Muslims constituted about 25% of the population. This Hinduisation of the Congress party contained within it the seeds of India’s partition on religious grounds between a Hindu-majority Hindustan and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. The Muslim fears about overwhelming Hindu domination once the Congress becomes the ruling party were not only not addressed, they were dismissed. Jinnah’s attempts to make the Congress agree to a confederal structure of governance that could keep India united were rebuffed, and resulted in Muslim League eventually pushed into seeking an independent Muslim-majority Pakistan (p. 67).

​

Review.
https://sikhsiyasat.net/the-indian-ideology-by-perry-anderson-a-review-by-pritam-singh-oxford/

@RescueRanger @_NOBODY_ @HRK @VCheng @Oscar @Quwa @ghazi52

I haven't read it, but I will add it to my reading list for 2024. Thank you for the recommendation.

 

[HRK]

In a recent interview Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi mentioned a book The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson, it's gone on my immediate reading list.
Has anyone read it?

View attachment 7393

A national and, to a great extent, global consensus on India that has got built over the years is that the post- colonial India is a story of success of democracy in difficult circumstances of a developing capitalist economy. This story of success is garnished with references to a secular constitution in a country of many religions, a free press, an independent judiciary and a thriving intellectual community. To this portrait of India is added the name of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s national movement for independence, as a man of peace, and that of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, as a towering Third World leader who is credited with laying the foundations of modernising India out of a backward agrarian economy. Many of these claims are grounded in varying degrees of truthful capturing of some aspects of India’s economic and political reality but the problem emerges when the captured images are magnified to a scale that a gloried picture of India emerges and leads to theorisation and celebration of the ‘Idea of India’. It gives birth to what Anderson, using a term Marx had used for Germany, calls Indian Ideology. This Indian Ideology of celebration of the ‘Idea of India’ is shared, in different hues, by a vast majority of Indian intellectuals within India or settled abroad. India’s Hindu nationalist party (BJP) took this celebration many steps further some years ago by coining the slogan of ‘Shining India’. In these essays, Anderson sets up the task of not only unearthing the roots of this ideology but also interrogating the validity of the claims of this ideology and the political implications of this ideology. He accomplishes this task by focusing his lens on Gandhi, the partition of India in 1947 and the formation of the ‘independent republic’ under the leadership of Nehru.

The running thread that Anderson identifies as connecting three phases of modern Indian history- the struggle for independence led by Gandhi, the 1947 partition and the making of the Indian republic under Nehru’s leadership- is Hindu-tainted Indian nationalism. Through a close reading of Gandhi’s collected works (100 volumes) and historical studies of the Indian nationalist movement, Anderson establishes that Gandhi transformed the Congress party from an elite pressure group into a mass movement but did so by injecting ‘a massive dose of religion-mythology, symbology, theology- into the national movement’ (p. 22). Gandhi saturated the Congress’s mass ‘appeal with a Hindu imaginary’ (p.94), and contrary to the Indian historiography’s construction of Jinnah, the Muslim League leader, as the villain behind religious communalisation, Anderson shows that ‘it was not Jinnah who injected religion into the vocabulary and imagery of the national movement, it was Gandhi’ (p.93). In Gandhi’s dictum ‘If religion dies, India dies’ (p.94), religion meant Hindu religion. For him, the Ramayana, the epic on the life of Hindu God Rama, was ‘the greatest devotional work in all literature’ (Gandhi’s original words cited by Anderson, p.24).

The Hinduisation of the national movement resulted in the Congress party that led the struggle for India’s independence to become a predominantly Hindu party. Anderson points out that during the 1930s; only 3% of the party membership was Muslim (p. 94) in a country where Muslims constituted about 25% of the population. This Hinduisation of the Congress party contained within it the seeds of India’s partition on religious grounds between a Hindu-majority Hindustan and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. The Muslim fears about overwhelming Hindu domination once the Congress becomes the ruling party were not only not addressed, they were dismissed. Jinnah’s attempts to make the Congress agree to a confederal structure of governance that could keep India united were rebuffed, and resulted in Muslim League eventually pushed into seeking an independent Muslim-majority Pakistan (p. 67).

When independence came, to ‘hallow the solemn occasion, Nehru and his colleagues sat cross-legged around a sacred fire in Delhi while Hindu priests-arrived post-haste from Tanjore for the ritual-chanted hymns and sprinkled holy water over them, while women imprinted their forehead with vermilion. Three hours later, on a date and a time stipulated by Hindu astrologers’ (p. 103), Nehru gave his ‘tryst with destiny’ speech at the stroke of midnight on 14 August 1947. The Constitution that was drafted for the new republic was seriously Hindu-tainted. The symbolic insertion of ‘Bharat’ in the opening article naming the country; the provisions for strong centralisation supportive of Hindu nationalism; the active intervention of the state to consolidate Hindu identity through reform of the Hindu religion; the definition of ‘Hindu’ supportive of Hindu assimilation agenda towards Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs; cow protection; pre-eminence status for Hindi in the Devanagari script and special importance for Sanskrit are all features of the constitution which make its secularism seriously Hindu-tainted (for details, see my ‘Hindu Bias in India’s ‘Secular’ Constitution: probing flaws in the instruments of governance’, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 909-926, 2005).

​

Review.
https://sikhsiyasat.net/the-indian-ideology-by-perry-anderson-a-review-by-pritam-singh-oxford/

@RescueRanger @_NOBODY_ @HRK @VCheng @Oscar @Quwa @ghazi52

I need to admit I have not read it but but after your recommendation I would read it IA

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Asp.Net in action

 

[_NOBODY_]

I am currently reading Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton. I pirated a copy from the internet as I couldn't find this book in Pakistan. I will definitely buy the physical copy one day. I have read two chapters and so far I'm loving it.




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