Thanks Prateek. I have ordered both these books. Thanks again.

Thanks Anoop for sharing your views.

Thanks Manjunath .

I am reminded of a conversation I had with a great connoisseur of art and his name bears the same name as the famous art gallery in Kala Ghoda. He asked me the same question as to whose work in photography did I admire or was influenced by. I guess my reply was similar in cadence but my only point was that I was happy not being influenced or follow the approach and style of Mr X or Mr Y or Mr Z howsoever humbly fashionable it may be in societal terms.

That said, yes we are all creatures of this society and we have to stay and struggle in it. What one can learn, from others, one must.

Nice choice of books. Never too late to start ;-)))

That choice of Arundahti Roy is the only odd one, purely on merit of course.