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Umesh Kesavan

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Umesh’s Bookshelves

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read‎ (625)
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fiction‎ (239)
novels‎ (226)
tamil‎ (198)
politics‎ (152)

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essays‎ (76)
cricket‎ (70)
contemporary-india‎ (62)
classics‎ (57)
biography‎ (50)
iwe‎ (41)
autobiography-memoir‎ (38)

cinema‎ (32)
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short-stories‎ (17)
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Umesh’s Notes & Highlights

Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka

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The series was not only Sri Lanka’s first victorious overseas tour, it was also Pradeep Mathew’s last public appearance.

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Umesh’s Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

93753 likes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47100 likes

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37067 likes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109525 likes

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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