![]() ![]() These stories are something I will cherish…īut there were a of couple other stories… Some ended abruptly, others felt baseless and some others started off good, but the storylines got messed up eventually… It wouldn’t be wrong to say that these stories sort of spoiled the book… The book would’ve been so much better off without these stories… If it weren’t for these few of stories, the book would have been a four, or even a four and a half stars read!! It wouldn’t be exaggeration to say some were even insightful, some very emotionally moving. These stories had so much depth and so full of meaning. My favourite stories were “The Forgotten King”, “Big”, “The Spy Who Loved Me,” “Beast of No Nation”, and “Uttara’s Anguish”. How the author described and mentioned even some minute details also appealed to me… The language and the writing style were really good… They make the reader read with interest, and intrigue… The author also did great justice when it came to portraying the emotions and feelings of characters. Some stories were simply amazing and left me in awe!! These stories, after finishing them, made me put down the device I was reading from and think about them for a while, even contemplate… These stories are the entries submitted by the author for the Write India Campaign, organized by The Times of India and the stories are from various genres, and encompass a range of different concepts and storylines. The book is a collection of ten short stories. It remains the last time humans have been on the moon.This was my third time reading Deepak Kaul and like his two other books, some parts were very good, but something or the other went wrong which reduced the quality of the book as a whole and made me cut stars. But there's somethin’ out there.” This was the Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. “As we look back at the Earth, it’s, uh, up at about 11 o’clock, about, uh, well, maybe 10 or 12 diameters,” the sampled voice of astronaut Eugene Cernan says on “Contact.” “I don't know whether that does you any good. There was joy in it, but there was melancholy, too: Here was a world seen through the rearview, beautiful in part because you couldn’t quite go back to it. “Get Lucky” and “Lose Yourself to Dance”-spotlights both for Pharrell and the pioneering work of Chic’s Nile Rodgers-recaptured the innocence of early disco and invited their audience to do the same. “Touch” was “All You Need Is Love” for the alienation of a post- Space Odyssey universe “Give Life Back to Music” wasn’t just there to set the scene, it was a command-just think of all the joy music has brought you. The concept, as much as the album had one, was to suggest that as great as our frictionless digital world may be, there was a sense of adventurousness and connection to the spirit of the ’70s that, if not lost, had at least been subdued. The theatricality that had always been part of their stage show and presentation found its musical outlet (“Giorgio by Moroder,” the Paul Williams feature “Touch”), and the soft-rock panache they started playing with on 2001’s Discovery got a fuller, more earnest treatment (“Within,” the Julian Casablancas feature “Instant Crush,” the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-The-Doobie-Brothers moves of “Fragments of Time”). So while the live-band-driven sound of 2013’s Random Access Memories was a curveball, it was also a logical next step. But it also marked Daft Punk as a group with a strong, dynamic relationship to the past whose music served an almost dialogic function: They weren’t just expressing themselves, they were talking to their inspirations-a conversation that spanned countries, decades, styles and technological revolutions. Within the context of 1997’s Homework, “Teachers” presented the group as bright kids ready to absorb the lessons of those who came before them. There is an early Daft Punk track named “Teachers” that, effectively, served as a roll call for the French duo’s influences: Paul Johnson, DJ Funk, DJ Sneak. ![]()
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