A Blogger Epitaph

A short and well-lived life

When is the right time to do the right thing? If we can answer this by doing it then, I think, it is to have lived well.

PG Tenzing passed away on 26th July 2010. Before that he seemed to have lived well. He left the dull, laidback world of IAS officers, embarked on a bike ride across India, alone and then wrote a book on it! His book was published in May 2009. Talk about doing right thing at the right time.

An example of how one should live life to the full, simply because it’s too short not to!

Review of the book ‘Don’t ask any old bloke for directions’ by PG Tenzing is on this site also -dated December, 2009.

State of Fear

By Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton has surprised me before. I had read Jurassic Park when I was younger and was amazed by the details, astounded actually. In my self-centered mind, the biggest success of the author was the fact that noone had ever explained science to me as well as Michael Crichton did.

2nd surprise was when I saw him in Oprah – a very tall (almost 7’), charming, CEO-ish and very non-author look let alone a person of science! I loved him!

3rd was when I picked up Disclosure! First of all I kept looking back at the cover to check if it could possibly have been written by the same person. But as I read more and more, I was quite sure. With the details and the fast paced way the book had been written, it had to be him. From Dinos to sexual harassment – it was hard to believe!

On that, the movies were huge and the tele-drama ER was fascinating, intense and fast paced, as would be expected.

I read ‘State of Fear’ recently and I am surprised again. The arguments are terrific, the conclusions even more so. Being a ‘green-reading-enthusiast’ it was a right book for me to read. The arguments are quite a revelation in terms of the so called global warming and climate change phenomenon. We really are so under informed! Michael Crichton has studied this for 3 years before embarking on writing this book. So the book is very educative, informative, thought-provoking and definitely influencing.

It’s a must read!

Of course I picked up this book as my tribute to the great man, who passed away in 2008.