Ok, so we’ve all read all the classic fairy tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty etc. what I am about to do will piss a lot of you off, but today I’m morbid and there is only a gathering of dark clouds above my head with not even a speck […]
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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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While sifting through some bags that my mom brought home one day, I decided it’s high time I stop being lazy and find a book worth reading and get out of the TV room where I seem to sit and slowly kill all my brain cells! And voila! As luck would have it, I found […]
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We have all read, heard and seen enough of the India-Pakistan partition, the atrocities that were committed on either side of the border, the tragedy that was the aftermath of the much awaited independence. Living in Delhi most of us even know of some relatives or old old family friends who live in Pakistan. Or […]
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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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Sex & Shahrukh Khan do sell but there is another topic which has an excellent hit rate – India Bashing. Find something which is not good about our country…. Sorry, not something but point towards anything under the sun in India and start blasting it left, right & centre. There are two possible ways you […]
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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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