Abhinav Agarwal

Sacred Songs: The Mahabharata's Many Gitas, by Bibek Debroy The Mahabharata, given its encyclopaedic length, unsurprisingly, contains ma...

Shiva Purana, Vol. 1, tr. by Bibek Debroy S hiva Purana, Vol, 1 is the first of a three-volume unabridged English translation of the Shiva...

Soufflé, by Anand Ranganathan A t under 200 pages, Anand Ranganathan’s fiction thriller-mystery novel is an ideal read on a Delhi-Mumbai or ...

This is a fast-paced read, but which comes across more as a Pakistan ISI sponsored pamphlet.  The material is haphazardly put together. The ...

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

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

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...