Posts Tagged “books”
Juta is a graphic novel by stand-up comedian and award winning environmentalist Vasu Primlani. Juta literally means shoe in Hindi was the name by which Vasu’s father addressed her as a child.
In its early pages the book introduces itself as the story of Vasu, her father Pama and her childhood friend Sahira- divided into five chapters titled Delhi, Sahira, USA, Pama and Prison.
This 234 page comic-book with Vasu as its author and with art credited to Vasu and to Vannessa Alejandra Guiterrez Castillo is a masterpiece of story-telling and twists in the tale. I read it in a single sitting, and then read again and again – reflecting upon it until finally now sitting down to review it.
While in Corona lockdown, I chanced upon a website article about a college student – who raised capital to buy a bankrupt comic-book company with money borrowed from family and friends. The article was actually a book excerpt and I wanted to know what happens next, so I bought the book on Amazon Kindle app…
Audio Podcast of a talk by David Risher – Founder of World Reader and Amazon & Microsoft Early Employee David Risher founded a profit called World-Reader – after being an early employee first of Microsoft where he worked directly with Bill Gates and an early employee of Amazon who was hired by Jeff Bezos himself…
Friends, many of you who know me or who have interacted with me know that there are many times when my body clock resets itself to transform me into a night person. And how I just love coffee to awake me and boost my focus before I start on a task that demands my focus…