Abhinav Agarwal

With this one post I may end up offending both the Mahabharata and The Godfather fans. Let us start with The Godfather, one of the best H...

Valuing Waning Nostalgia The Strand Book Stall sale used to be a much bigger, better attended, and eagerly expected event than it is no...

Inferno, by Dan Brown " An Annotated Frommer's Guide " Robert Langdon is in a race to read us the entire text of From...

Companies on the sands of Silicon Valley: Webex This is another from the several photos I took while in the Bay Area in the summer of 200...

Quotes from the Shalya Parva Shalya, the maternal uncle (Madri's brother) to the Pandavas, took over command of the eviscerated Kaurava ...

Roads are so scarce in Bangalore that it is ok to use the pavement as a road. Thus goes the philosophy of these four two-wheeler riders. Lo...

On our trip to Gujarat a couple of years back, we knew we would not be able to cover even half the spots we wanted to. Making it a mad das...

Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown, Illustrations by John Parra Inspiring short story. When Ana, the little girl, has time to ...

Image credit, stevenstrogatz.com The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz   One-line review : X ...

The Uses (and Abuses) of Influence From the July-August 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review comes an " interview with Rober...

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...