Abhinav Agarwal

Icing on a Delicious Cake People following my blog will know that I started reading and writing about Dr. Bibek Debroy 's unabridged ...

[ Ch 1,2,3,45  « Ch 6,7,8,9,10 »  Ch 11,12,13,14,15 ] Parva:Adi;  Upa-parva:Pouloma;  Chapter: 6 ;  Shlokas:13 Puloman carried away Pul...

[Ch 1,2,3,4,5 »  Ch 6,7,8,9,10 ] Parva: Adi; Upa-parva: Anukramanika; Chapter: 1 ; Shlokas: 210 नारायणं नमस्कृत्य नरं चैव नरोत्तमम् ...

In Spite of the Gods - The Rise of Modern India, By Edward Luce One line review : Crass. Clueless. Sadly Shallow. Long review : Writ...

Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography, by Sanjeev Sanyal One line review : Five millennia, one history, on...

Using R to Unlock the Value of Big Data , by Tom Plunkett, Mark Hornick This is a brief (approximately 80 pages) introduction targe...

( edited Aug 4, 2014 ) Svayamvaras resulted in much confusion and carnage in the Mahabharata. There is the svayamvara of the daughters of...

Mohammed Rafi My Abba - a Memoir, by Yasmin Khalid Rafi One-line review : a daughter-in-law's honest and loving tribute to a legend...

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...