(Image Credit: http://www.ebookmela.com) A cross between a calendar of famous quotes and a pamphlet of bottled wisdom, Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like An Artist” eulogizes 10 things, despite knowing all of which , you either pretended to be unaware or decided to be intransigent. And in the process, sacrificing your innate creative bent. Comprising all of … Continue reading Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative – Austin Kleon

(Image Credit: http://www.npr.com) The radiant seer of Arunachala and one of the most revered spiritual figures in India, Bhagawan Shri Ramana Maharishi, distilled the quintessential nature of his philosophy in three simple, subtle and succinct words, “Who Am I?” According to this philosopher-saint who spent a majority of his years – the whole of his … Continue reading The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself  – Michael Singer

(Image Credit: goodreads.com) Jack Welch’s deified status as the icon and iconoclast who redefined General Electric, and thereby making it the most valuable company on the Planet, took a surprising and shocking dent with Thomas O’Boyle’s explosive publication, “At Any Cost: Jack Welch, GE and the pursuit of profit”. The book, released in 1998, represented … Continue reading Jack Welch: The Man Who Broke Capitalism – David Gelles

(Image Credit: http://www.ebay.com) The next time you watch with gawking eyes and gaping mouth, an undercover agent leapfrog between buildings, parkour narrow alleyways, dart in and out of cramped favellas, navigate bustling street markets, before divesting a bewildered motorist of his Suzuki Hayabusa, and speeding away to safety, all the while firing off a fusillade … Continue reading Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA – Amaryllis Fox

(Image Credit: http://www.netgalley.com) Best selling author Ada Calhoun, while rummaging for remnants of her childhood in her parent’s apartment at St. Mark’s Place, in Manhattan’s East Side Village, accidentally stumbles upon a treasure trove in the form of audio cassettes representing her father’s interviews with eclectic associates of the eccentric poet, Frank O’ Hara. Calhoun’s … Continue reading ALSO A POET: FRANK O’HARA, MY FATHER, AND ME – Ada Calhoun

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) Sir Ken Robinson has single handedly done for education what governments across the world collectively have failed to achieve. With a revolutionary approach that places practicality over the pedantic, dialogue over dissertation and multiculturalism over monoculture, Robinson made it an uncompromising mission in his life to overhaul a rigid and … Continue reading Imagine If…  – Ken Robinson & Kate Robinson

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.in) “From Dependence to Self-Reliance” is a concise albeit passionate manifesto penned by the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, that exhorts and urges India to make the most of a golden opportunity staring the nation in the face as it readies itself to carve a niche as an economic and … Continue reading From Dependence to Self-Reliance: Mapping India’s Rise as a Global Superpower   – Bimal Jalan

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) A cross between a reticent memoir and a revealing travelogue, ‘A Transcendental Journey’ is Stephen Evans' wistful ruminations on love, life, longing and literature. Stashing his 1992 Teal Blue Chevy Cavalier’s trunk with a load of books, and arming himself with a Rand-McNally Map, Evans spontaneously sets off on the I-90 highway … Continue reading A Transcendental Journey – Stephen Evans