Abhinav Agarwal

T hat Duryodhana was driven by envy is known to all. He is also perhaps the best known example of an envious man in the entire epic. His w...

L et's talk about the role of a CEO and what advice would a board advisor give to an incoming CEO? Yes, this is still about the Mahabh...

H ow do you curse God, and do it justifiably so? What is the arc of the geometry of rage? Does it rise up into a crescendo and then subsid...

Of Omissions and Commissions and Parallel Universes It is not as if role models for girls are in short supply in India. The problem is mo...

K unti abandoned her first-born son, Karna, almost immediately after birth. Gandhari aborted her first foetus out of frustration. There in...

Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History, by Meenakshi Jain Amazon IN One-line review : a wrenching ta...

Chalta Hai India: When ‘It’s Ok!’ is Not Ok, by Alpesh Patel Amazon IN , Kindle IN Publisher: Bloomsbury India (October 2018) ISBN-...

The Idol Thief: The True Story of the Looting of India's Temples, by S. Vijay Kumar W oven around the dramatic chase across the ...

W hat is a paradox? According to Wikipedia , a paradox is "is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises...

The Man Who Saved India: Sardar Patel and His Idea of India, by Hindol Sengupta I f you want to understand the insidiousness of narrat...

T here was a fair amount of shock and disbelief in many circles when news, on the 7th of July 2018, broke that a nun at Nirmal Hriday (a ...

Krishna Gopeshvara: The Truth of Vrishnis (Book 1 of the Lord Krishna Trilogy), by Sanjay Dixit K rishna Gopeshvara is a book that tak...

"Because there is no space for alternative narrative" Urban Naxals - The Making of Buddha In A Traffic Jam, by Vivek Agnohot...

The 14 Faults of a Leader - Do They Still Hold in the 21st Century? I  will confess straight off the bat - this post is from the Ramayan...

The Valmiki Ramayana, Vol. 1, translated by Bibek Debroy Flipkart ,  Amazon IN ,  Amazon ,  Kindle H aving gone through the marat...

Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, by Peter Schweizer Hardcover: 336 p...

A Journey Through Oligarch Valley, by Yasha Levine H ere is  a  short segue I request you to indulge me in: In 1998, the Delhi Jal ...

The Friendless God, by S. Anuradha T his is the tale of three people, a god, and the relationship the three have with Rama, their god. ...

Amazon Launches Prime Music in India. What It Means for the Indian e-commerce Market O n a day when it was reported that the online...

The OM Mala - Meanings Of The Mystic Sound, by Nityanand Misra T he meaning of the word Om is not something most of us ponder over. Om i...