Category Archives: Books

Book: Love Story by Erich Segal

It was first published in 1970. Yet we find the book everywhere even today, in every bookshop in the best-sellers racks, and almost on every roadside book shop in every Indian city. I have been sighting this book as long as I could remember looking books on the roadside shops in Hyderabad. Long before I [...]

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Book review: 2 States by Chetan Bhagat

The New York Times called Chetan Bhagat as the biggest-selling English-language novelist in India’s history. With his first three books already being widely read in India, he released his fourth book recently which generated a lot of anticipation before the release on Twitter and other online spaces.

Chetan Bhagat released the new book on Oct 8th, [...]

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Books I have read lately

Thought of updating the list of books I have managed to read in the recent past. Here goes the list:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Joker in the Pack by Ritesh Sharma and Neeraj Pahlajani
Stein on Writing by [...]

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Book Review: Stay Hungy Stay Foolish

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish is published by CIIE at IIM Ahmedabad and written by Rashmi Bansal – an IIMA alumnus herself. In this book author profiles 25 successful entrepreneurs graduated from IIM – Ahmedabad.
This is a really good read for people involved in start-ups or who want to start on their own. Learn from the [...]

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Book Review: The White Tiger

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is Man Booker Prize 2008 winner. This book is published in 2008 and is the first novel written by this 33 year old author from Chennai, India.
Protagonist of the novel Balram Halwai alias The White Tiger tells his story to the Premier of China over a series of letters [...]

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