Monthly Archives: July 2009

Hitopadesa — A Penguin India Classic

I reg­is­tered for this “blog a Pen­guin India Clas­sic”, got the book, and didn’t man­age to com­plete it for nearly two months. That goes nowhere to say how good or bad the book was, but does go to say how cal­lous, dis­tracted and shame­less a per­son I am. Well, I finally man­aged to read through

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

A story. Yup. That’s all it is. Minus the adjec­tives. Life-changing, mem­o­rable, and most influ­en­tial; unfor­get­table and really thor­oughly awe­some. Of course it would only be self-flattering to say any such thing on them­selves.  It is about a seag­ull with the name of Jonathan Liv­ingston. I could go about telling you the whole story, con­sid­er­ing