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Rajat’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rajat’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Rajat Ubhaykar
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in Bhatkal, India
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George Orwell, Aman Sethi, W. Somerset Maugham, Samanth Subramanian
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Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan
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Die Götter der Straße: Per Anhalter mit dem Truck durch Indien (POLYGLOTT Abenteuer und Reiseberichte)
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Truck De India: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hindustan
Think truck drivers, and movie scenes of them drunkenly crushing inconvenient people to their gravelly deaths come to mind. But what are their lives on the road actually like?
In Truck De India, journalist Rajat Ubhaykar embarks on a 10,000 km-long, 100% unplanned trip, hitchhiking with truckers all across India. On the way, he makes unexpected friendships; listens to highway ghost stories; dis
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“There are places I’ll remember All my life, though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life, I’ve loved them all”
― Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's guide to Hindustan
― Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's guide to Hindustan
“I remember being fascinated by trucks— their vivid colours, their discordant musical honks that rattled my eardrums, the lingering scent of diesel fumes they left in their wake, the cryptic personal quotes that I hastened to read before we overtook them. In my juvenile imagination, truckers weren’t deviant. They were free as the breeze, cruising over the cheek of our vast nation without a care in the world. Naturally, the very idea of their life and the possibility of someday travelling with them appealed to me as the stuff of high adventure.”
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“Truly, the moment the first strains of Gurbani hit the ears, even a stranger becomes a little Sikh.”
― Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan
― Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― The Illuminated Rumi
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― The Illuminated Rumi
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Sumati wrote: "Thanks for accepting the request Rajat. :)"My pleasure. Looking forward to some good conversations about books Sumati. :)
Thanks for your friend invite Rajat! I really loved what you tell us about yourself in your profile. I can't wait to chat books with you! :)
Happy New Year, Rajat - all the best for 2014!
Thanks for the friend request, Rajat. I hope you find the comments as inspiring as the shelves :D
I'm certainly looking forward to reading more of your excellent reviews and discussing them!
Hi Rajat, and thanks so much for your friend request! I just sent you one on last.fm as well. Great taste in books and music -- I'm looking forward to great discussions with you. :)
Hello Rajat! Thank you for the friend request.Looking forward, me also glad, to discuss and share books with u.
Hi. Look forward to discussing books with u... What according to u are the top 5 books which everyone should read at least once?
Hello Rajat! Thank you for the friend request. I'm happy to accept and look forward to discussing books, exchanging recommendations, and so on.
Thanks Richard! Do give it a shot when you get the chance. Would love to know your thoughts :)