Ever since reading The Power of Habit, I have always looked forward with undisguised enthusiasm towards the impending release of any Charles Duhigg book. Hence it was with a great degree of excitement and anticipation that I procured my copy of Supercommunicators. However, and surprisingly so, the latest offering by Duhigg turns out to be … Continue reading Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection – Charles Duhigg

Hanging Out. An innocuous coming together of noun and adverb with the latter also doubling up as a proposition where circumstances warrant. Such beguiling innocuousness, however, is pregnant with implications and outcomes that have influenced civilization right from its advent. Humanity has thrived by dint of spontaneous association even before epithets, encomiums and appellations were … Continue reading Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time – Sheila Liming

Ruchir Sharma never bats an eyelid before calling a spade by its rightful name. In his new forceful and trenchant, book What Went Wrong With Capitalism, the former emerging markets investor at Morgan Stanley and the current head of head of Rockefeller Capital Management's international business, is at his acerbic best. Castigating deficit spending by Governments … Continue reading What Went Wrong With Capitalism – Ruchir Sharma

Banal, playful, ironic, and sarcastic, André Gide’s Marshlands is an astonishing tour de force. Gide himself describes his work as a sotie - a short, fashionable, topical and absurd play of medieval France performed in costumes combining contemporary dress and fantastic elements. The protagonist of Marshlands is an unnamed narrator obsessed with finishing a novel … Continue reading Marshlands – André Gide