Abhinav Agarwal

Quotes from the Karna Parva By the time Karna takes over the reigns of the Kaurava army, the fighting has gone on for fifteen days, and the...

After Bhishma falls in battle on the tenth day, there are two important decisions taken. The first is Karna's entry into the war, and th...

The Berenstain Bears' Report Card Trouble by Stan Berenstain (Author) , Jan Berenstain (Author) Grades, soup, and stereotypes. B...

Change for Change’s Sake by Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam, and Ranjay Gulati Change for Change’s Sake - Harvard Business Review ,...

The names of Parvas six through nine of the Mahabharata are easy enough to remember. They are each named after the commander of the Kaurava ...

The Unmanageable Star Performer The Unmanageable Star Performer - Harvard Business Review , from the  May 2013  issue of the  Harvard Bu...

Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan, by M.J. Akbar "One good section, two okay parts, and several instances of selective int...

The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline, by Sanjeev Sanyal " Useful enough. But... Misleading t...

The Book of Story Beginnings, Kristin Kladstrup Like the title, the book's start is worthy of a book, but peters out after that. ...

Mahabharata, Vol. 7. Translated by Bibek Debroy Weapons kill, but words will hurt much, much before that ( Flipkart , Amazon US , Kind...

The 2013 edition of the Bangalore Comic Con  ( @ComicConIndia ) was held at the Koramangala Indoor Stadium - the same venue as last year, o...

Laugh with Laxman, R.K. Laxman ( Amazon ,  Flipkart , Amazon Kindle ) This is a collection of cartoons that RK Laxman drew outside the...

Spring is Here, Big Bear , by  Will Hillenbrand We read in Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep  ( my review ), Maureen Wright 's delightful boo...

After the Pandavas' thirteen year exile was over, they packed up from Virata and headed off to Kurukshetra to wage war against their c...

The Blossom Book House, on Church Street in Bangalore, is my kind of a bookstore. Aisle upon narrow aisle, shelf upon shelf stacked with bo...

I had read or heard that the Oxford Bookstore at the 1 MG Mall  in Bangalore was huge. That was the attraction for me to visit it. I was w...

The Missing Queen , by Samhita Arni " A king's flaw and a society's decay. Engrossing book though marred by an excessive in-...

Image credit: OUP The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States, by Winthrop D. Jordan One-line revie...

Coorg ( Kodagu ) is a district in the state of Karnataka, and apart from the rich and proud cultural and military heritage of the native Ko...

Coraline , by  Neil Gaiman Don't Walk Through the Brick Door. ( Amazon US , Amazon IN ,  Anniversary Edition , Flipkart , Flipka...