This is the first time I am struggling to write anything about the book I have read.This book explores themes in a very complex way. The author plays with opposites, heaviness and lightness, life and death , god and atheism, love and hate etc. These themes are explored from the lives of the characters in the novel , Tomas, Sabina, Teresa, Frez . Relationships with god, wife, mistress, country, animals are explored through out the novel in “opposites”.

It is not the things we do that we regret on our death bed..It is the things we did not do, that we regret Find your passion .. You will not find passion in money, things. It has to be something other than that. No matter what you do , passion will always be grounded in people and the relationships with the people around.

Day in , Day out one comes across reports, newspaper articles, business channel anchors using the word correlation. Correlation between NIFTY movement and some sector index, pollution rates Vs number of vehicles in the city, y vs x etc . If one stops to think about the word correlation and ask a few questions, opinions/arguments/citings all tend to fall apart. In the statistical sense of the word, let me take r as a pearson correlation and bring out the first often neglected aspect of correlation.

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