What I read in 2017

Who Rules the World , Noam Chomsky

• Media Control, Noam Chomsky

• Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky (Best non-Fiction of the year)

• On Anarchy, Noam Chomsky

• Occupy,Noam Chomsky

• How the World Works, Noam Chomsky

• On Aggression , Konrad Lorenz

• Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours, Slavoj Žižek ( Worst Read of the year)

• Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy ( Best Fiction of the year)

• Ivan the fool, Leo Tolstoy

• Qaim deen, Akbar Ali Natiq (Best Short Story of the year)

• Naulakhi Kothi, Akbar Ali Natiq

• Justice Munir Report on Anti Ahmadi Riots 1953 ( insight of the year)

• The Art of War, San Tzu

• Qaid, Abdullah Hussain

• Raat, Abdullah Hussain

• The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes, Salim Kemal

• Deep Thinking, Gary Kasparov (Most Enjoyable non Fiction of the year)

• Aag ka Darya ( Wanted to finish it for a long time- finally done)

• Raamooz, Jaun Eliya (Best Poetry Book of the year)

• Shayad, Jaun Eliya

• A few Ghazals by Dagh Dehlavi

• A few Ghazals by Hafiz

• A few Rubyayat from Lazumiat by Abu ala Maari Translation by Ameen Fares Rihani

• Some Poems from Baba Bulley Shah

• Some Kafis of Ghulam Fareed

• A few Ghazals from Ghalib

• A few poems by NM Rashid ( Kulyat-e-Rashid)

• A few poems by Mir ( Kulyat-e-Mir)

• Intekhab-e-Mir ( Maulvi Abdul Haq)

Skills I learnt:

Learnt a bit more on Guitaring and on Indian especially on South Indian Ragas

Reading a bit of Devnagri

Made my dark room for developing by analog photography ( both Medium format and 35mm)

Learnt how to Play Better Chess

Made my simplest Hello World ios app on objective C

Made test case simulations with Rhode and Shwartz CMW500 in NB-IOT with Qualcomm UE

Started learning Python

Revised by skills on LaTex