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Kindle Keeps are a collection of words I love, words that are complete in themselves, even to those who may not have read the book. Someday I’d love to pass on this collection to my two little kids so I started saving it here.

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Anjali Gupta in Kindle Keeps

Jul 31, 2016

His needs from a relationship are much simpler now.

I’m going to juxtapose two passages from the heartwarming short story Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. An old father and his daughter, Ruma, are slowly coming to terms with the death of the most important person they shared between them…

Anjali Gupta in Kindle Keeps

Jul 27, 2016

If our mother’s cells have done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford doctors?

Anjali Gupta in Kindle Keeps

Jul 25, 2016

You are not the voice talking in your head.

Suppose you were looking at three objects — a flowerpot, a photograph, and a book — and were then asked, “Which of these objects is you?”

You’d say, “None of them! I’m the one who’s looking at what you’re putting in front of me…

Anjali Gupta in Kindle Keeps

Dec 21, 2014

A book I love, but would recommend with a word of caution

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Anjali Gupta in Kindle Keeps

Jul 19, 2016

Humbled by Nature. You could have just as easily been a worm.

The geneticist Antoine Danchin once used the parable of the Delphic boat to describe the process by which individual genes could produce the observed complexity of the natural world. In the proverbial story, the oracle at…

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