Reading is often treated as a means of acquiring information, entertainment, professional knowledge, or cultural familiarity. Serious reading, however, asks for something more demanding. It requires the reader to remain with difficult questions even when they do not have immediate answers, to reconsider familiar assumptions, and to tolerate intellectual uncertainty without rushing towards convenient conclusions…. Continue reading
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George Orwell as an Essayist: Features, Relevance, and a Beginner’s Reading Path
To engage with the essays of George Orwell is to encounter a writer who treats language as a moral instrument. Orwell is widely remembered for 1984 and Animal Farm, yet his essays remain among the clearest and most influential examples of modern prose. They are marked by an unusual combination of simplicity and seriousness. Orwell… Continue reading
The Malabari Who Loved His Ferrari by Dileep Heilbronn – Book Review
The Malabari Who Loved His Ferrari by Dileep Heilbronn is a deeply engaging memoir that transcends the expected boundaries of the genre. It is neither a linear success story nor a mere catalogue of hardships overcome. Instead, it stands as a vivid recollection of a life shaped by will, values, culture, memories, and, above all,… Continue reading
The Kintsugi Moms: Transformative insights from a healer’s diary by Dr Haseena Chokkiyil – Book Review
Dr Haseena Chokkiyil’s book The Kintsugi Moms: Transformative insights from a healer’s diary brings hopeful tales of transformation that will help readers realise the worth of life, and also ways to find ways back to it when everything seems lost and haywire. The author, a holistic healer, a homoeopath and a survivor herself has braved… Continue reading
How Leaders Decide: Tackling biases and risks in decision-making by Harjeet Khanduja – Book Review
Business books are helpful only if you are interested, engaged and enjoying your occupation in the corporate sector. By luck, if you are a successful entrepreneur already, business books can help you a lot in getting better. Yes, books do help you master your profession, sports, style, and anything else. For those who are in… Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Supplier Quality Professionals by Irshadullah Asim Mohammed, a book review
Irshadullah Asim Mohammed’s Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Supplier Quality Professionals (2021) stands as a landmark publication in the emerging confluence of artificial intelligence (AI) and supplier quality management (SQM). The book is a comprehensive and methodically structured guide that not only interprets the language of technology for industry professionals but also redefines the future contours… Continue reading
Want to know Indian history? Confused about Indology and Indic studies? Read these authors
Indic history, Indology, the history of the native (by the native) and the other side of Indian history are coming to the fore. These subjects are not coming to the front suddenly. The rise of Indic history is a constant phenomenon, suppressed by various forces in different times. However, with the regime change in India… Continue reading
Hindus, the NRIs and the Next 5000 Years – Kumar Dipanshu’s perspectives
Constant debates on Hinduism and how it has evolved through the stages of time will always be a curious case for many. However, recent years have not been so calm for Hindus around the globe. Be it the recent attacks on them in South Africa, targeted persecution in Pakistan and Bangladesh or even selective decisions… Continue reading
On Living and Dying by J Krishnamurti – Book Review
“But you see, most of us don’t want to die, because we are content with our living. And our living is very ugly; it is mean, envious, a constant strife.” This is what you find in the fourth paragraph, page number 105 of this book, On Living and Dying, by J Krishnamurti. Whatever this philosopher,… Continue reading
India Positive Citizen: Book by Savitha Rao – Review
We read a book, we may like or dislike it, in other words, we form our opinion about it, occasionally we share these opinions with friends or other readers, and then take another book and the cycle continues. However, there are books that, instead of allowing you to form any opinion, pose some tough questions… Continue reading