Abhinav Agarwal

The Sacred Sword: The Legend of Guru Gobind Singh, by Hindol Sengupta T he pressing need to bring history alive and make it interesting...

R ahul Gandhi, the 47-year old scion of the Nehru dynasty, is all set to ascend the throne of the Congress Party. If things go as planned, ...

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, by Robert Sutton I n preparation for a review of...

W hat does wealth mean to you? Let me start with myself. It has meant different things at different points in time and life. I suppose thi...

T here is a famous story in the Mahabharata concerning Yayati, one of the ancestors of the Pandavas and Kauravas. Because of a curse, he l...

Black Money and Tax Havens Paperback, by R Vaidyanathan T he subject of black money and tax havens that facilitate and act as conduits ...

Aadhaar A Biometric History of India's 12-Digit Revolution by Shankkar Aiyar T his book is perhaps the most detailed and compreh...

Text and Interpretation - The Indian Tradition, by Kapil Kapoor T his is an excerpt from Prof. Kapil Kapoor's book, "Text an...

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,  by Martin Ford " I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; ...

C orporate sagas seem to come in twos. The  mega-fracas  that erupted in 2016 between  Cyrus Mistry , then Chairman of Tata Sons, and t...

Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? T his one comes from the  Sep-Oct, 2017  issue of  Harvard Business Review . Between strat...

Inside Chanakya’s Mind: Aanvikshiki and the Art of Thinking, by Radhakrishnan Pillai T he relevance of Chanakya to today's world h...

Photo by  Tim Gouw  on  Unsplash S eeing the gay abandon and effortless ease with which people in today's hyper-connected world see...

R emember Chuck Noland? The character in the movie Castaway, who has to use the blade of an ice-skate to extract his abscessed tooth, with...

Image credit: pexels.com Waste Not, Vacate Not. W hen Jeff Bezos , founder and CEO of Amazon, started out Amazon, he, along wit...

Natural Enmity - Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Pancatantra [Book 1], by Ashay Naik A shay Naik's book, " Natural ...

I n the age of startups, especially in the e-commerce space, where money is plentiful - or till a a year or so back, used to be - the o...

I s there a new way to present the Mahabharata? A story as epic and grand as the Mahabharata has inspired the great and the devoted alike...

L inkedIn began as a professional networking site, has evolved into a social media behemoth, and has yet managed to maintain and sharpen...

The Mahabharata, Vol. 8 Translated by Bibek Debroy [Unabridged English translation of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute'...