Sixty-three pages. Sixty-three pages of hilarity. Sixty-three pages of Schadenfreude. Sixty-three pages of selfishness and selflessness. Sixty-three pages of solitude transformed into camaraderie and camaraderie transformed into realisation. Sixty-three pages of aplomb that switch back onto each other only to veer away only to collide again. Fredrik Backman’s The Answer is No effectively an Answer … Continue reading The Answer is No – Fredrik Backman

Charles Darwin’s now immortal voyage on the HMS Beagle was preceded by an incredulous chain of events that could hardly be termed propitious. The original captain of the ship, Captain Pringle Stokes was beset with depression in 1828, whilst the ship itself was in anchor. Stokes locked himself in a cabin, before fatally shooting himself. … Continue reading Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters – Brian Klaas

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

In an extraordinary passage, in Bob Woodward’s revealing new book, War, an exasperated American President Joe Biden, yells over a telephone call at the Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. ‘Bibi, what the f**k?’ screams Biden driven to the brink of frustration at Netanyahu’s dour and obstinate refusal to bide by Biden’s call for judiciousness and … Continue reading War – Bob Woodward

A genius of the original order, a vulnerable human being racked by debilitating bouts of delusion and chronic paranoia, a reticent mind capable of cutting-edge output, and a soul ravaged by insecurities, Kurt Gödel represented a paradox to flummox all paradoxes. The Austrian American mathematician of eviscerating brilliance, once described by Albert Einstein as the … Continue reading Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel – Stephen Budiansky

A manifesto of vignettes, This Strategy proposes to distil in a concise and lucid fashion, strategies that would enable not just entrepreneurs, but also aspiring individuals to pursue their aspirations. Consisting of two-hundred and ninety-se slim Chapters, this latest book by American author and a former dot-com business executive, Seth Godin is a fast paced … Continue reading This is Strategy – Seth Godin

Globalisation was touted to be the ultimate panacea for embellishing and enhancing the paeans of super capitalism. A seamless and unfettered cross border mobility of income and capital would turn the world into a borderless mega zone of trade and commerce. However, the much-trusted utopia is falling apart at the seams, courtesy some Teutonic geopolitical … Continue reading A Map Of The New Normal: How Inflation, War & Sanctions will Change your World Forever – Jeff Rubin