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Scale, the Gut, Tissues and Travel @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 8)
Have you heard of the Super Commander Dhruv series? I hadn't until I was at this BYOB Party! A non-fiction book…
Politics, Children and the Time Machine @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 7)
Lalita talked about a Pulitzer Prize-winning political fiction that was published sometime in the 1930s. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury is a…
Wonder, Queerness and the Mind @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 6)
Pratibha discovered a book called Wonder by R. J. Palacio(based on a true story), much before it became the famous book that…
XKCD, Ice9 and the Dust Bowl @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 5)
Akshay Arora got a comic book in the last BYOB Party and he read it out. He did the same…
Translations and Twins @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 4)
Sonali was entranced by Chitra Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions, yet another retelling of the Mahabharat epic, this time through Panchali's…
Wodehouse and the Sailor @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 2)
The BYOB Party at IISc started on a serious note with the discussion of the surreal Partition. Srikanth lightened the…
Bring Your Own Book (BYOB) Party on March 24, 2018 (Saturday)
RSVP on Meetup OR RSVP on Explara RSVP on Meetup OR RSVP on Explara Have you read a book that you are craving to…
Sleep Burglars, Flying Lizards and Myth – Diving into the Vernacular @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 3)
This time vernacular books were high on the list of favorites. The idea behind this BYOB Party was to encourage…
Partition and the Woman @ BYOB Party at IISc in January 2018 (Part 1)
We hosted the first BYOB Party of the year with the IISc Poetry & Storytelling club and Ranade Library at…
Dragons, AI and the Nobel @ BYOB Party in November 2017 (Part 7)
Ravi talked about Eldest by Christopher Paolini, the second book in the four-book series The Inheritance Cycle. The story is a mature fantasy…