Abhinav Agarwal

Ajaya: Roll of the Dice, by Anand Neelkanthan A screed and a rant, but not a book or a story. This is a book written with the sole purpose o...

Vishnu Purana, translated by Bibek Debroy ( Paperback , Kindle e-book ) A book that stays close to its definition Why was Drupada, father-in...

Buried (Hush Collection), by Jeffrey Deaver Amazon Kindle 'Buried' is a short novella, at under 100 pages, and runs at a fast clip, ...

Classified: Hidden Truths in the ISRO Spy Story, by J. Rajasekharan Nair  ( Kindle , Amazon India ) A Sharp Look at the ISRO Spy Case. Th...

The Reacher Guy: The Authorized Biography of Lee Child, by Heather Martin (Amazon India, Kindle) Heather Martin’s authorised biography of L...

Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura, by Meenakshi Jain Amazon Indians may know Mathura as an important railway station on the way to Agra, as the s...

  Rukmini: Krishna's Wife, by Saiswaroopa Iyer Amazon: paperback , Kindle . Flipkart   Writing fiction based on our epics is easy. Writi...

  HBR’s 10 Must Reads - The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review – 2021 ( Amazon ) HBR’s 10 Must Reads - The...

Indraprastha: The Earliest Delhi Going Back to the Mahabharata Times Author: B.B. Lal Publisher: Aryan Books International After Independenc...

In an earlier article , I looked at the thirteen occurrences of the words, यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः (where there is dharma, there is victory) in th...

The Curse of Bigness: How Corporate Giants Came to Rule the World, by Ti Wu Amazon IN , Kindle IN Evidence of the power that tech behemoths ...

The emblem of the Supreme Court of India is “ yato dharmas tato jayaḥ ”, which is translated as “where there is dharma, there is victory”. T...

  The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Bibek Debroy ( Amazon IN , Kindle , Flipkart ) The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials by Bibek Debroy ( Amazon...

Who Killed Shastri, by Vivek Agnihotri ( Amazon IN , Kindle , Flipkart ) Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second prime minister, died in Tashken...

Lessons From The Mahabharata: Kanika Niti – The Dead Inspire No Fear The Shanti and Anushasan Parvas of the Mahabharata dwell at length on s...

A common refrain of Dhritarashtra was to bemoan the vicissitudes of fate, the meaningless of karma, and the supremacy of destiny. It was per...

Remember what Vidura said towards the end of the previous chapter, that someone who incites his enemy " cannot presume to be secure, on...

V idura likens the Kouravas to the forest and the Pandavas to the tigers that reside in the forest. His injunction to the king is to not cut...

So far we have covered three chapters of Vidura Niti - 254 of 541 shlokas - or a little less than half of Vidura Niti, which is entirely con...

Vidura ended the previous chapter by telling the king that Yudhishthira was fit to rule, that he had suffered much on account of his 'co...