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Canon EF-S 55-250 f/4-5.6 IS review

I had a chance to try out Canon EF-S 55-250 f/4-5.6 IS lens on Sunday at Nehru Park, thanks to Ashish. Now I have been thinking of buying Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS lens, ever since I bought my DSLR and always knew that it was going to be the next addition to my kit. [...]

Nine Lives by William Dalrymple

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, is yet another travel book on India by William Dalrymple, whom I have come to respect and admire, after reading his various other books on the Indian Sub-Continent and thankfully, this book is no different! Of course where it does differs from the rest is [...]

Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee

Off late I haven’t been getting much time to read books, so Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee, took me quite a bit time to finish, even though once I started reading it, I found it captivating, inspite of a serious narration issue, which somewhat put me off (more on that later). Churchill’s Secret War [...]

Who Moved My Cheese, Review

Just finished reading, Who Moved My Cheese by Dr. Spencer Johnson. My curiosity in this book had risen, after I heard a member of one of the forums I frequent at, mention it repeatedly in a discussion. So I decided to check it out, especially since it is such a small book (great for lazy [...]

Firefox 4 beta review

Couple of day’s back I got fed up of Firefox 3.8.x crashing repeatedly on my computer and decided to download and install Firefox 4, even though it is still in beta. It’s been a long time since I last used a beta application and that too on my everyday install of windows. However, I needed [...]