Crisp Reviews of Books On My Nightstand

Economics seems like a subject to be studied and discussed only by scholars and is taught in schools just to torture children. As a kid, I hated economics ( though my father who has PhD in Economics has tried everything to reverse this fact) and college studies of macro/micro economics boosted my hatred further. According to me, the major connection a common man had with economics is when finmin announces the budget and for that entire month all you could read in newspaper front page is budget and its implications. In the quest of ignoring economics, we tend to keep those orange colored?? !! newspapers as far as possible and life is so relaxed without caring for increase in base rates of banks or bear/bull run of stock market. All of us are affected by its ups and downs of global and local economy via global recession, rise in interest rates, or hike in food prices. But we don’t understand the principles at work and how and why they really affect us. Here is a book named “IIM A...

Inspiration is just a feeling that is ignited in your mind when you see someone like you have achieved what you had dreamt for. The dream is now achievable to you but the hardest part is to convince your own self that this is reachable to you too. The distance between ‘I can’ and ‘I will’ takes further thousand steps. Inspiration can convert in action only when you feel yourself reaching the dream. Most people spend their life inspired by the stories of successful persons but never feel that they too have to ability to do the same. Only thing missing is faith that they are special too and they can reach the dream too. ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’, yet another beautiful book by Richard Bach, brings the same essence through a story of a gull that thinks beyond simply eating and surviving, and seeks higher purpose in life to become the best at what he loves. This is a story of people who dare to follow their dreams and make their own rules; even if they run contrary to the no...

After series of non-fictional dose, I decided to read something different and took a shot at criminal stories. After much digging, I landed on couple of books but could not really enjoy reading them. Finally, with half mind about reading crime non-fiction, I started reading a book called "Mafia Queens of Mumbai" by S. Hussain Zaidi and to my surprise, I could not stop myself from finishing it in a day. "Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness." Marie de Vichy-Chamrond from Letters to Voltaire, this quote rightly explains the strength a woman can have when she decides to face her worst fear. This book brings together a such a set of stories about interesting and powerful female leaders of the Mumbai underworld and their conquest to face their fears. The Mumbai underworld, or the Mumbai Mafia has seen many legends like Haji Mastan, Dawood Ibrahim, Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Karim Lala, to name a few. But, there were ...