Routinely dismissed as a ‘waste of time’, Facebook can often be surprisingly educative. Amid the incessant stream of selfies, Instagrammed dinners and ‘last night’s party pix,’ every once in a while there’s a project that makes you think. A few months ago, it was the art challenge, where users tagged friends asking them to post their favourite paintings. It was followed by a similar poetry challenge. Now, as all you Facebookers have probably realised, it’s all about books. So far, all the usual suspects have featured, from the Bronte sisters, to J.R.R. Tolkien and Paulo Coelho. Bringing up the Indian side, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and Vikram...
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