Book Review of Vinay Sitapati’s book “Half Lion – How PV Narasimha Rao Transformed India”
Category: Non-Fiction
A book of boundless takeaways!
‘Amazon Unbound – Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire’ was recommended to me by a colleague at my office – quite a well-read, knowledgeable individual with a certain flair for describing books, food and movies, that made you immediately want to have/see them! This was my second book from Brad Stone, after…
The Economics of Job Creation (or non-creation!)
I picked-up Gautam Das’s “Jobonomics” at an airport back in 2019, at a time I was deep into studying blue-collar workforce dynamics. I was surprised by what I found inside it! Goutam Das, currently with the Mint, he was a senior editor at Business Today. He is known for his reportage around employment and man-machine…
The Adventures of Captain Courageous
“Never Give Up” and “Nothing’s Impossible” are what you are left with in your mind after every chapter you read of Captain Gopinath’s autobiography – “Simply Fly – a Deccan Odyssey“. Written like an adventure journey chronicle but packed with information across various subjects, it’s a thriller of a life story that can also be…
Addicted!
Months back, I met an ex-colleague of mine after more than a decade at a Bandra pub, and discussions about his start-up and building a product company was the subject of discussion. Strangely, we were discussing future and but not so much of the past when we worked together, which is normally the case when…
A Good Nudge!
Robert Thaler had just received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making. Being an enthusiastic learner of behavioral economics, it was a trigger & I wanted to know more! And then came the final nudge! A WhatsApp message on one of my office groups, a link to…
ONE set of notes you can’t miss…
Venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel along with Blake Masters pens out a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Blake Masters for the class on startups taught by Thiel at Stanford University in 2012. “What important truth do few people agree with you…
May this inspire many Upstarts!
Brad Stone is senior executive editor of the global technology group at Bloomberg News and senior writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek for which he has written numerous in-depth cover stories on leading technology companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo & Amazon. In his book “The Upstarts” he writes about the inspirational & unusual journey…
The Joan of Pashtun / The Girl Gandhi
I was on an official tour in Delhi. Post a hectic day at work, was shifting news channels on TV before I finally got off to sleep. That’s when I heard her speak. The Nobel Peace Price has just been announced. Conferred jointly, to 60 year old Kailash Satyarthi of India and 17 year old…
Through Sonia’s eyes…
There’s always that enigma which surrounds Sonia Gandhi nee Maino. It continues to perplex many. What the human mind is unable to place in a pattern, it worships blindly, hates mindlessly or endeavours to seek the missing pattern. Surely, not of the first variety, I have always wondered what made Sonia – who seemingly hated…
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