Abhinav Agarwal

I  will cheat a bit here. I did not read as many books as I would have liked in 2019, so I will include 2018 in this list. Since I do no...

Krishna Yogeshvara - The Dice of Kutil Dharma (Book 2 of the Lord Krishna Trilogy) Amazon India Agendas and subversion; free will a...

T he Mahabharata has lived for thousands of years for the reason that it serves as that vast ocean human emotions in which everyone can po...

The Markandeya Purana, translated by Bibek Debroy Amazon IN , Kindle IN A s far as Puranas go, the Markandeya Purana is the shortes...

I n the first part of this two part series focusing on the emotion of Envy, we learnt that despite the popular belief and the main propon...

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...