Abhinav Agarwal

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Saturday, April 15, 2023

Aryaa: An Anthology of Vedic Women—Review

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Aryaa: An Anthology of Vedic Women ( Kindle e-book , Paperback ) Ten Women Who Shaped Ancient India. Aryaa is a collection of ten stories fr...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

Mahabharata The Epic and the Nation, by GN Devy - Review

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Mahabharata The Epic and the Nation, by GN Devy What gives the Mahabharata its "timeless magic", what about the epic has captivate...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Ajaya, by Anand Neelkanthan—Review

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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...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Vishnu Purana, tr. by Bibek Debroy

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Vishnu Purana, translated by Bibek Debroy ( Paperback , Kindle e-book ) A book that stays close to its definition Why was Drupada, father-in...
Friday, August 19, 2022

Buried (Hush Collection), by Jeffrey Deaver

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Buried (Hush Collection), by Jeffrey Deaver Amazon Kindle 'Buried' is a short novella, at under 100 pages, and runs at a fast clip, ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Classified: Hidden Truths in the ISRO Spy Story”, by J. Rajasekharan Nair - Review

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Classified: Hidden Truths in the ISRO Spy Story, by J. Rajasekharan Nair  ( Kindle , Amazon India ) A Sharp Look at the ISRO Spy Case. Th...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

The Reacher Guy: The Authorized Biography of Lee Child, by Heather Martin - Review

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The Reacher Guy: The Authorized Biography of Lee Child, by Heather Martin (Amazon India, Kindle) Heather Martin’s authorised biography of L...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Krishna Vasudeva and Mathura, by Meenakshi Jain - Review

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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, by Saiswaroopa Iyer

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  Rukmini: Krishna's Wife, by Saiswaroopa Iyer Amazon: paperback , Kindle . Flipkart   Writing fiction based on our epics is easy. Writi...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

HBR's 10 Must Reads - Management Ideas 2021 - Review

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  HBR’s 10 Must Reads - The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review – 2021 ( Amazon ) HBR’s 10 Must Reads - The...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Indraprastha, by BB Lal - Review

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Indraprastha: The Earliest Delhi Going Back to the Mahabharata Times Author: B.B. Lal Publisher: Aryan Books International After Independenc...
Friday, March 5, 2021

yataḥ kr̥ṣṇas tato jayaḥ - Tales from the Mahabharata

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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...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

The Curse of Bigness, by Tim Wu - Review

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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 ...
Friday, February 5, 2021

Where thee is Dharma, there is Victory - Tales from the Mahabharata

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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...
Friday, December 25, 2020

The Bhagavad Gita and The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials, by Bibek Debroy - Review

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  The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Bibek Debroy ( Amazon IN , Kindle , Flipkart ) The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials by Bibek Debroy ( Amazon...
Friday, December 11, 2020

Who Killed Shastri, by Vivek Agnihotri - Review

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Who Killed Shastri, by Vivek Agnihotri ( Amazon IN , Kindle , Flipkart ) Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second prime minister, died in Tashken...
Friday, November 20, 2020

Kanika Niti - Mahabharata

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Lessons From The Mahabharata: Kanika Niti – The Dead Inspire No Fear The Shanti and Anushasan Parvas of the Mahabharata dwell at length on s...
Friday, October 9, 2020

Vidura Niti - 10 - Forgiveness, conduct, and the end

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A common refrain of Dhritarashtra was to bemoan the vicissitudes of fate, the meaningless of karma, and the supremacy of destiny. It was per...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Vidura Niti - 9 - Long arms, trust, and fools

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Remember what Vidura said towards the end of the previous chapter, that someone who incites his enemy " cannot presume to be secure, on...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Vidura Niti - 8 - Messengers, Gluttony, Security, and Help

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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...
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