Doodles of the Insane

HOMO DEUS - A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW YUVAL NOAH HARARI A BOOK REVIEW Can someone name a book in a blunder of paradox (History of tomorrow) and still add meaning to it?   “Yes ”, says Yuval Noah Harari, politely and profoundly. Frankly speaking, I am kinda bewitched and bedazzled by him, as I reach the climax of this “Monstrous” book. I prefer to call it “monstrous”, not for its volume or the pages, but for the ideas it has carried through, neatly engraved. We all grew up, hearing stories from our grandparents or parents or the teachers. And it seems Yuval’s primary task here is to break our hearts in disproving all the stories or the beliefs or the imagined orders.   In his last book, he had his axe on the religion (for those proud fanatics), Nation (for those nationalists and patriotisms ), money (for the greedy capitalists). Although, whether these imagined orders are for good or bad, would be a never ending debate for any prime time T...

Who was Che? The question here means, Che is no more. Even though he is, his seeds are in Us, in our brains, in our veins, in our ideas, through those words and actions he carved in history. So why is he still famous, that youngsters (some hardly know his significance) still sport his iconic face in those fashionable T-shirts? Born in a rich and affluent family in Argentina, with no hardships apparently, getting into a medical school was affordable for him. His childhood struggles were mainly against bronchial asthma.   On the verge of completing his medical degree, why did he have to embark on a cross-continent adventure across the Latin America in his motorcycle “La podorosa” ? Why did he feel empathy towards the sufferings of the native americans under the hands of the capitalist creed? Why did he have to struggle for a freedom of a country, completely irrelevant and unrelated to him? (so much for the pseudo or anti-nationalism!) Why did he ...

So what makes this book readable?   or perhaps why should you read this book? To read 462 pages of non-fiction - about the history of our species “Homo sapiens” - in a 5 days time among with the mundane routine activities, for a lazy reader, such as me ( Who has more than a dozen half-read books with forgotten bookmarks, dating back upto a decade) isn't easy. To write something of this magnitude requires a lot of homework; Reading from ancient archaeological scripts and stone carvings; Decoding and deciphering the language of the past and lost empires; Observing and guessing the patterns of history and trying to inculcate in the present scenario and an attempt at torching the infernos of the unpredictable future. All these can be done and are in-fact found in essays and texts of various subjects around the globe. But why would you purchase a textbook for your leisure reading, unless you are specialist or a historian like Yuval Noah Harari, who happens to...