Book Review – Bravehearts of Bharat
This book compiles the short biographies of 15 bravehearts of Bharat, 8 men and 7 women. Several of them are unknown…. A must read book.
Books
Lifelong Learner
We live in an info age where being a lifelong learner is critical for success. The way to do that is to read, teach, eat healthy and relax.
Book Re-Review – The Journey Continues
The Journey Continues offers tremendous spiritual insights and also speaks of Yoga, Tantra and other practices.
Daily Gratitude
What are you grateful for today ? Am grateful to have developed the habit of reading !
De-cluttering Continued – Clothes & Books
I had written earlier about Marie Kondo’s book – Book Review #1/50 – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying and how I had de-cluttered my sarees. We continued with the de-cluttering exercise and first de-cluttered Krishnan’s suits, shirts, pants and ties. Had the same experience as with the sarees, in that, we found shirts that were favourites but … Read more
#WhyISupportModi #1 – Sajjan Kumar in jail
In 2007, a book titled “When a Tree Shook Delhi” was published. I bought it immediately because the Sikh massacre in Delhi in the aftermath of Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s assassination has always rankled. In 2002 we met with the brother of an ex-colleague of Krishnan’s who was a brilliant student but was a pale shadow … Read more
Book review – The lost generation
This is a must read and kudos to Nidhi Dugar Kundalia for preserving the dying professions in India in ink. I assume that there will be a sequel to it because there are many more professions that are going out of fashion. I completed reading this book a couple of days back. It’s a … Read more
Author Review – Jeffrey Archer
For the past couple of months I have been re-reading Jeffrey Archer’s books – I have been a fan ever since I read “Prodigal daughter” long long back. I stopped reading his books after “Thereby hangs a tale”. Somewhere between “Honour among thieves” and “Thereby hangs a tale” I feel he has either lost that … Read more
Book Review – Rearming Hinduism
This book’s title is misleading. It’s not about violently establishing Hinduism or taking up arms to defend it. Vamsee Juluri is a professor and brings data through his research rather than just his opinions to argue his case. This is a difficult book to read.. It’s almost like sitting in a lecture with Google on … Read more