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Book Review – Age of AI by, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher
The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger5 of 5 stars I’ve been long searching for a book which could explain the philosophical foundations upon which the edifice of today’s AI frameworks has been built … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Science, Technology
Tagged AGI, AI, ArtificialIntelligence, EricSchmidt, HenryKissinger, ICT, IT, Philosophy
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हिन्दू सनातन धर्म – तिलक (Tilak) या तिलक-चिह्न
हिन्दू सनातन धर्म में तिलक (Tilak) या तिलक-चिह्न का विशेष महत्व है। तिलक केवल सजावट नहीं बल्कि यह आध्यात्मिक, धार्मिक और दार्शनिक पहचान भी दर्शाता है। अलग-अलग सम्प्रदाय, परम्पराएँ और देवताओं की उपासना पद्धति के अनुसार तिलक के कई प्रकार … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged तिलक, Hindu, Sanatan Dharma, Sanatana Dharma, Sanskrit, Shiv, Shiva, Tilak
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Book Review – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson5 of 5 stars The book exposes the dangers of climate change and shows how bleak our future looks. Just as we are all subject to some perceptual errors due to … Continue reading
Book Review – Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A great story of an elusive love and heartbreak against a political backdrop in modern day Turkey by the great story teller. An exiled poet Ka returns back to his hometown of Kars to investigate the suicide by young girls … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Literature, Love, Religion
Tagged Islam, Love, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey, Turks
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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one … Continue reading
Book Review – India That is Bharat by J. Sai Deepak
India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J. Sai Deepak5 of 5 stars The colonial studies with Indian perspective are strangely almost non-existent. In spite of sub-continent going through tragic colonial experiences first with Muslim invaders and then … Continue reading
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Tagged Bharat, Books, British Raj, Colonialism, Consciousness, Indian Independence, Sanatana Dharma
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Book Review – August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn My rating: 5 of 5 starsRussia’s disastrous performance in World War I was one of the primary causes of the Russian October Revolution of 1917, which swept aside the Romanov dynasty and installed a Bolshevik … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, History, Literature
Tagged Communism, Germany, Russia, Solzhenitsyn, WorldWar
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Book Review – The Human Situation by Aldous Huxley
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959 by Aldous HuxleyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a pertinent book in the current chaotic world as it deep dives into the human condition and unravels the social, economic and … Continue reading
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