This is not a single book review but a set of them, all about Genes and Evolution and all written by Richard Dawkins. For me, personally, it opened up a whole new world that I was blissfully unaware o...More
This is probably a crowd favorite even if many would not have gone on to complete it. Robert is an amazing writer and more than that he is a brilliant salesman. So the writing style and content is ver...More
Caution upfront – this book is not for the fast paced, quick-fix, the ‘I have no time – give me everything already’ type of readers. It is a beautifully written book on life and desires with m...More
Monika Halan followed her ‘Let’s Talk Money’ with a book specific to mutual funds and what a brilliant work that was – to take up all categories and flavors of mutualf funds and to...More
Back in 2004, when I took up reading about ‘Personal Finance’ to save myself from the clutches of an LIC agent :-), I had to scourge the internet (rediff money and later economic times) to underst...More
Self help books are usually not my cup of tea. I have tried a few and absolutely not liked them (sorry fans of ‘The Alchemist’). But there are some on the right side of rationality while also bein...More
During one of my annual school holidays (probably 8th or 9th) my father got me the full set of 5 books of Ponniyin Selvan. I have heard him talk about it earlier but I never thought I would read them....More
If you can’t get enough of Yuval’s writings you can continue with this book which is more grounded to the present. It looks at the challenges we face and how we can proceed to obliterate t...More
Yuval continues with his wonderful writing – though this could be slightly outdated with the recent AI interventions. If ‘Sapiens’ is about our past this is about our future.
