7 Books And A Night Of Coincidences

I have 7 books that I must read.

1. Amartya Sen - The Argumentative Indian
2. Amartya Sen - Identity and Violence
3. Karen Armstrong - Holy War
4. Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity
5. Edward De Bono - Lateral Thinking
6. Fritjof Capra - Tao Of Physics
7. Oscar Wilde - Selected Works

All 7 were acquired in the last 10 days in varying circumstances. I think I have enough reading (and circumstances?) to suffice for the next quarter at least.

Rather ambitiously, I have embarked upon reading nos. 2 and 3 since they are similar to some extent and explore the reasons for conflict in today's world.

Coincidentally, no.2 begins with a quote from Oscar Wilde :)

Earlier in the evening, (actually I must stop referring to 10 pm as 'evening'; it's too late in the day to be called evening, I suppose.. but stems from a habit of listening to DD news readers saying 'Good Evening' before starting off on the 9 pm news and ending it with 'That's all for tonight, Good Night' and as usual I have put almost an entire paragraph in parentheses, which is not a good reflection on my language skills... but to continue the pre-parenthesis part) I was looking for some mutiliated pictures of the Monalisa. The reason for this is quite complicated and owes allegiance to a number of things among which count my (supposed) skills in designing posters, a red bull and minor celebrations in my Bangalore office. I did chance upon some interesting representations of Ms.Lisa (though that's a rather inaccurate disintegration of her name since her surname was unknown, though Lisa Ray is one of my perennial favourites and through some quirk of coincidence is being approached to play a lesbian in some forthcoming movie...I shall spare you the details, though Ms.Ray [as opposed to Ms.Lisa] is rather cute {I am running out of parentheses!! and this looks like one of those silly, complicated equations from Algebra class!!!!}]) of which I must share this, this and this.

After a long search, I decided to watch some TV and coincidentally HBO was running trailers of the movie 'Monalisa Smile'. The movie stars Julia Roberts (my eternal favourite) and Julia Stiles (who reminds me of the sister of a friend of mine) and has nothing to do with The Da Vinci Code or any form of cryptography (not that Ms. Roberts wouldn't make a cute Sophie Neveu).

There were some other coincidences also, of a supernatural kind, which I am not too keen on sharing right now lest the guy playing the guitar on top of this blog get scared.

And now, I shall either
(a) Read TV OR
(b) Watch the books

It's late.