On Friday, 1st May 2020, as a part of the ‘Philosophy in Corona Days’ series, The Culture Circle of New Acropolis India and Nalanda Library Department hosted an online activity titled ‘Books We Love’.
Curated as a book review event to celebrate World Book Day marked on 23 April, a panel of members read excerpts and shared their musings from books they found to be inspiring and meaningful.
The session allowed for an exchange of ideas where participants discussed the philosophical message, relevance, and application in our daily lives, through the wisdom of these books.
The books presented:
Ankor: The Last Prince of Atlantis, by Jorge Angel Livraga Rizzi
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
Upstream, Essays by Mary Oliver
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
On Art and Aesthetics, by Rabindranath Tagore
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rules for a Knight, by Ethan Hawke
The Human Interest, by N. Sriram
