Books. Motivation. Wisdom
One of many fondest memories of my childhood is when I got an opportunity to visit the state library of my home-town as part of a school trip. It was a jaw-dropping experience for a ten-year-old me. I vividly remember pacing through columns of bookshelves, mesmerized that a place can hold so many books. Thirty [ ] The post Why India Has No Beautiful Libraries And Why That Should Concern Us…
In 1963, France sent a cat into space. Her name was Félicette. But before she became Félicette, she was simply C 341. A small black-and-white tuxedo stray, picked up from the streets of Paris. No, she wasn t rescued, she was selected for a specific mission. She was one of 14 female cats gathered by the [ ] The post Félicette: The Cat We Sent to Space, Then Chose to Forget appeared first on…
Steven Simon’s Grand Delusion offers a sweeping, insider’s account of American policy in the Middle East from the Iranian Revolution in 1979 through 2023. It is a long book and covers more than forty years of good and bad decisions and unintended consequences. I found it far more ambitious than the typical foreign-policy postmortem. For [ ] The post Book Review | Grand Delusion The Rise and Fall…
So it’s been more than a month and the US-Iran war still rages on. Precisely, 33 days. When it all started, everyone thought it would be short. The belief was reinforced when the US President Donald Trump himself called it a brief excursion during one of his press briefings. The word excursion in itself implies [ ] The post 33 Days of a Conflict Going Nowhere: Inside the US Iran War appeared first…
Before I visited the Kerala Literature Festival this year, I had only heard about Days at the Morisaki Bookshop. That it was written by a Japanese author and that it had sold very well. That was about it. Then I witnessed the craze for Satoshi Yagisawa firsthand at the festival. A queue that can only [ ] The post Book Review | Days At The Morisaki Bookshop appeared first on BookJelly .
In this review of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, I examine Scott Adams’ ideas about systems vs goals, skill stacking and learning from failure. The post Book Review | How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big appeared first on BookJelly .
Business books have a strange shelf life. Some titles are celebrated as classics within a few years of publication. They are quoted endlessly and recommended reflexively. And yet, when you revisit them a decade or two later, something feels off. This post explores why business nonfiction ages so poorly compared to narrative or literary nonfiction. [ ] The post Why Business Books Age Badly appeared…
Let’s get one thing out of the way. The incident at the India AI Summit may have come across as an aberration to many, but it wasn t. The problem was never a Chinese robotic dog being passed off as Indian innovation. That was just a symptom of a deeper malaise one that has been [ ] The post Indian Private Universities Have a Credibility Problem. Galgotias Exposed It appeared first on BookJelly .
If you have followed my writings, you would know my admiration for Umberto Eco, the late literary maestro from Italy. Every year I set aside one or two of his books nonfiction or fiction to read. It has become a kind of yearly ritual for me. Interestingly, it was only after I began [ ] The post Umberto Eco s Legacy: Why He Still Matters Today appeared first on BookJelly .
You must have experienced this before. You want to watch a great movie, but life keeps thwarting your plans. By the time you finally find the time, your friends, cousins and everybody’s grandmother have already dissected it threadbare. You are so information-saturated that the urge to watch it simply dies. That, oddly enough, is what [ ] The post Book Review | The Millionaire Next Door appeared…