The book in my hand

Ashok Parthasarathi, former scientific adviser to PM Indira Gandhi and Delhi-based filmmaker Ramesh Sharma tell us what they're reading.

June 26, 2016 02:23 am | Updated October 18, 2016 01:43 pm IST

Ashok Parthasarathi

I am reading Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle by Mark Tully and Satish Jacob, and a biography, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.

A book on remembering GP [G. Parthasarathi] on his birth centenary has gone to press and I am waiting for its publication.

I am also going through the old notes of GP.

Ashok Parthasarathi was the scientific adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Ramesh Sharma

I have been reading a variety of books on my Kindle, and the one I really enjoyed was about The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared , a work of fiction by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson. I found it clever and witty and an apt commentary on the contemporary world as it talked to me about the adventures of a centurion on the run after he escapes from an old-age home. You gradually discover that he was behind the atomic bomb. The other book I liked, partly because there is a chapter on my film, New Delhi Times , is Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star by Aseem Chhabra. It is about a commercial actor who went on to support the cause of serious, meaningful cinema.

Ramesh Sharma is a Delhi-based filmmaker

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