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Vijay
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A Lord of the Shadows and Algorithmic Image Interpretation Machine (ie, a Radiologist). 100% human. No AI/ML.

I'll be using this account to mainly post about #books and #reading. 📚 📖

🇮🇳 scanman in twitter, scanmanv in threads and Instagram
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#PoongaBookClub #ReadingRetreat2025 #reading #Tamil Amman Nesavu by M Gopalakrishnan. About 25% done in one afternoon and evening.
Tamil Book cover. Amman Nesavu by M Gopalakrishnan.
January 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Today, I found that an audiobook version was released on the 15th of January this year. I got it in audible. It's a long listen at 33+ hours.
I've restarted from the beginning. I don't mind redoing/listening to half the book again. It's worth it.

#BookSky💙📚 #bookishBsky #nonfiction
Audiobook cover. India: A History by John Keay. Narrated by Mike Fraser.
January 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 20 #BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #India #caste #society #history #BookReco
Book cover. Annihilation of caste by BR Ambedkar.
January 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 19

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #India #BritishEmpire #history #BookReco
Book cover. The Great Arc by John Keay.
January 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 18

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #migration #history #sociology #India #BookReco
Book cover. India Moving: A history of migration by Chinmay Tumbe.
January 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 17

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #space #NASA #astronauts #BookReco
Book cover. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
January 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Hey Cris! Nice to meet in yet another platform.
The #qualitativeresearch hashtag made smile. My daughter shared this just yesterday from her MSc Public Health classroom. She finally gets to her favourite subject in the 2nd term after struggling with epidemiology, statistics/quant. 😃
January 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 16

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #biographies #medicine #PublicHealth #EyeSurgery #Nepal #USA #audiobooks #BookReco
Audiobook cover. Second Suns: Two doctors and their amazing quest to restore sight and save lives. By David Oliver Relin. Narrated by Rob Shapiro.
January 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 15

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #science #BillBryson #BookReco
Book cover. A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson.
January 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 14

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #India #MilitaryHistory #Siachen #BookReco
Book cover. Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen saga by Nitin A Gokhale.
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 13

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #economics #society #BookReco
Book cover. Freakonomics. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. By Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner.
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 12

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #HistoryOfMedicine #medicine #surgery #BookReco
Book cover. The Butchering Art. Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine, by Lindsey Fitzharris.
January 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 11

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #India #SouthIndia #BookReco
Book cover. Coromandel: A personal history of South India by Charles Allen.
January 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 10

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #biographies #medicine #PublicHealth #BookReco
January 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 9

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #Biographies #Memoirs #audiobooks
Audiobook cover. Kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
January 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 8

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #history #medicine #cancer #biographies #BookReco
Book cover. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
January 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 7

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #audiobooks #history #Mongols #EurasianHistory #BookReco
Book cover. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world, by Jack Weatherford.
January 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 6

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #Biographies #Memoirs #Africa #BritishEmpire #Kenya
Book cover. Out of Africa by Karen Blixen who wrote this under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen).
January 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 5

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #Biographies #Memoirs #science #physics
Book cover. "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman.
January 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 4

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #audiobooks #history #India #BookReco
Audiobook cover. The Golden Road, written and narrated by William Dalrymple.
January 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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They sure fooled me.

They are plastic models “for nutritional education.”

These primary care physicians are evil, I say. 🤬
Plate with realistic looking plastic models of 2 samosas and 2 kaaju katlis. With a background plaque that reads, National Diabetes Dyslipidemia Day.
January 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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The samosas and kaaju katlis look yummy, right?
I found them in my wife’s consulting room.
White plate with 2 samosas and 2 pieces of kaaju katli.
January 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 3

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #medicie #business #productivity #CheckLists #BookReco
Book cover. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.
January 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 2

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky

#history #BritishEmpire #India #China #Opium #OpiumWars #audiobooks
Audiobook cover. Smoke and Ashes. A Writer's Journey through Opium's hidden histories by Amitav Ghosh.
January 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#20NonfictionBooks

Day 1

#BookSky💙📚 #BookishBsky #Biographies #Memoirs #audiobooks
Book cover. Born a crime by Trevor Noah.
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM