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Beloved Witch by Ipsita Roy Chakraverti
Autobiographies of unusual people always make interesting reading. I bought this book, Beloved Witch after I saw Ipsita’s interview on a television channel. In...
Journey to Black Hole by Hari Joshi
This is one of the two books written by Hari, who is a good friend of mine. I have been a part of the...
The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho
The Zahir is a typical Paulo Coelho book. Based on a particular country and its mysticism and the messages it gives. This time it...
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
Francis Bacon said ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.’. This book The...
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics is probably the most hyped and most superficial and dumb book I have read in recent times. How it qualifies to be an...
Niche Professions
For the last couple of years lot of people, especially youngsters have been venturing into Niche professions, which either did not exist till now,...
The Secret of Shambhala by James Redfield
A long time back I had read ‘Celestine Prophecy’. And I really liked it. It was my introduction to the theory of ‘Energy Fields’....
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
There are very few books and fewer writers who can tell you a story in multiple layers, which run in parallel throughout the book....
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a book about punctuation, its birth, evolution, history, and potential future. Based on the ‘Cutting a Dash’ series that...
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat had been on the bestseller list for a long time. And hence had the curiosity to read it. Especially as...
