Far too intense to cope with as a continuous read

“If my life deserved an autobiography it would be called ‘Merits of a misguided youth’,” says Anil Rao, chairman and managing director, Pest Control India. But while this paper may not be the best forum to probe that confessionary strain further, his reading habits certainly are...

Or for entirely different reasons — Sri Aurobindo’s works, which though “erudite and reflective”, he says, “are far too intense to cope with as a continuous read”... His current darling is Richard Dawkins, who as an agnostic, rationalist and scientific thinker and writer, he’d like to believe, is a kindred spirit. He is currently reading his The God Delusion. Business Standard Arati Menon Carroll / Mumbai June 23, 2007