Before I get down to writing anything about the book, I’d like to thank my friend Ruchira for presenting me this thought-evoking book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Till about a month ago, it was an unknown title to me, and Herman Hesse, a nobel laureate, an unknown German writer. The first thing I did on […]
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I started An Equal Music (my first Vikram Seth book) having heard a lot of good things about the writer, his writing skills and poetic elements. Talking about poetry, An Equal Music sounded more poetic than his other titles such as Two Lives and The Suitable Boy, which are being read as of now by […]
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Though Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines was a part of my graduation course, I actually read it for the first time good 10 years after academically studying for passing my exams.
Caught between many conundrums – for instance, the difference & similarity between the old and the new, the time travelling between spaces and faces, growth […]
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The last piece of fiction that I read before Life of Pi was Shantaram, a 1000-page marathon with the pace of a thriller. In between, I peppered some non-fiction reads, before I picked up Life of Pi, a 2002 Man Booker Prize Winner, that was gifted to me on my birthday many years back.
Life of […]
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I had heard of Outliers from two of my friends in the corporate sector. In a bookshop about two months back and in a mood to read, I picked up Outliers by Malcolm Gladwill (of Tipping Point Fame). The blurb on the last page really glorified the book, and the entrepreneur in me screamed to […]
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Before I laid my hands on The White Tiger, I, to a large and unprecedented extent, was intrigued by the mixed reviews and views readers had on this Man Booker Prize Winner. The elite prize undoubtedly escalates the sales of any book that it chooses to endow itself upon. Aravind Adiga’s wonderful book has not […]
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Tiger! Tiger!
I am in the midst of reading The White Tiger, and I am admittedly totally awe-struck with the Man Booker Prize winning novella. Aravaind Adiga has done amazing well to describe the many faces of our multi-hued state (pun intended). He narrates the story of a villager who is recruited as a driver with […]
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When I started italics I knew nothing about entrepreneurship. It was like captaining a ship not knowing how the sea will behave or how to sail when the tides are high, or for that matter, even still. It may not be the best analogy but that’s how entrepreneurship is – you just cannot plan, and […]
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I am very ashamed of the fact that I am a very poor reader. Whilst I have friends and cousins who are very well read, I have oft struggled to finish a book. You can blame it on my hectic schedule or procrastination. But there are some books I do end up finishing in a […]
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There’s something about entrepreneurship. It is I guess one of those plunges in life which are laced with risk and if turn about to be successful make you a millionaire at least – and most entrepreneurs are not driven by the millions (or billions) but by something else which is hard to explain.
Today, I happened […]
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