MY READING LISTS AHEAD FOR THE NEXT ONE MONTH [FROM 27TH APRIL TO 27TH MAY]

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 Although I am preparing for the Civils this year, but I have to study ither books in order to survive the hegemonic order of the things hitherto. What is there to live for if not to read? I think I can bear the world's problems and my mind's own disabilities only through columns of an article or through bookmarks of a book. 

The reason I do not find solace in living in the immediate world being like what everyone else do, live in real world, hang out with real, mediocre people, is not because I think I am a reclusive person but precisely because I think only real is fiction and if you want to know reality as immediate as your surroundings, a Hugh amount of non-fiction books are required to be read and nothing real otherwise. 

No reality lies beyond fiction and no real is out of the non-fiction. So, why bother about what your Neighbour is doing. Fuck the Neighbour. Fuck your Neighbour as thyself. 

So, I thought it would be better to make a reading list. Adhering to it is a different matter and some books here and there I keep reading, be it of poems, or some story. Fiction and literature are easy readings so will not include it here. Only serious theoretical stuff. 


1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

2. Can the subaltern speak? BY Gayatri Spivak

3. Khule mein Khada Ped [A tree stands alone and open] by Agyega

4. Chak par Samay by Ramesh Chandra Shah

5. Baarish mein Khandhar, by Nand Kishor Acharya 

6. Kuch Zindgiyaan Be-Matlab, by Om-Prakash Deepak. 


I think I will be able to read only these given than it is only one month and also, I have revisions to do. Ok, I will update on 27th. 



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