Innovating Women by Vivek Wadhwa & Farai Chideya
Crowd-sourced and crowd-promoted - two biggest takeaways from the book, Innovating Women, for me. The passion with which stories were sourced from around the...
Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
This book came before 2014, then Narendra Modi was a Prime ministerial candidate and not the prime minister. This was the time when people...
Becoming a Mountain by Stephen Alter
Himalayas - the aura that name generates is nothing compared to what the mountain and its various ranges can do to the ones who...
Strictly Personal – Manmohan & Gursharan by Daman Singh
Manmohan Singh is a public figure we hardly know anything about except his public persona. And his image as an upright academic turned bureaucrat...
Being Different by Rajiv Malhotra Book Review
I picked up this book Being Different after I saw a few videos of Rajiv Malhotra talking about Hinduism and trying to explain it. Videos...
God’s Own Office by James Joseph
This small little book God’s Own Office is probably an indicator of the times to come. Where some of us, if not most, would...
Rokda: How Baniyas do Business by Nikhil Inamdar
Baniya-Buddhi is what we Baniyas call common sense. If you ask most businessmen the secret of their success they would attribute it to basic...
Elephanta by George Michell – Book Review
This slim volume is on the UNESCO world heritage site of Elephanta caves near Mumbai. Noted historian Goerge Michell wrote the book. And it...
Ahmedabad: From Royal City to Megacity by Achyut Yagnik, Suchitra Sheth
Talk about the timing of my books. I picked up this book about 3 years back when I was supposed to move from Gurgaon...
Mirrored Mind: My Life in Letters and Code by Vikram Chandra
Writing software code that makes life easy for its users and writing fiction that enthralls the reader with author’s imagination have never been thought...