PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 “A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he’ll […]
Mastani | Kusum Choppra | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Well, if Jane Austen were alive today and if she were to read “Mastani”, it would change her perception of history. This book is the story of Mastani, one of the most misunderstood characters of Indian History. Most of us have either, never heard about […]
Poor Economics | Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 INFORMATIONAL QUOTIENT: 4/5 It won the 2011 “Financial Times/Goldman Sachs” Best Business Book of the Year Award and it comes recommended from none other than the Nobel winning economist Amartya Sen. So there must be something great in this book; thinking this I selected Poor Economics from among the […]
The Test of My Life | Yuvraj Singh | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 APPEAL: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 What comes to your mind first, the moment you hear the name ‘Yuvraj Singh’? ‘6 6s’ or ‘Man of the Series in the 2011 world cup’ or ‘an arrogant cricketer’ or ‘a flirt’ or ‘a bar brawler’? If I give an introduction of Yuvraj Singh […]
Sahibs Who Loved India | Khushwant Singh | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 “Sahibs Who Loved India” takes you back in time, it takes you through the period when India was ruled by the British; British who hated us, who tormented us, who disgraced us in our own country. But then, it is not about those loathing babus […]
Smart Phones Dumb People | Parthajeet Sarma | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STLE: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 “We live in an opportune moment today. We have, available to us, the technological tools of the 21st century to address 19th-century issues. In a fast-changing world, will mankind be ruled by smartphones soon or will mankind use technology in life-changing innovations to make our […]
The China Price | Alexandra Harney | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.75/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The whole world talks about China; from my B-School professors lecturing on the importance of China; to our Director and HODs trying to bring in teachers to make us learn Mandarin; to ex-colleagues in asset management industry selling China-focused mutual funds to HNIs; to my […]
Abraham Lincoln | Lord Charnwood | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Abraham Lincoln is one of America’s greatest heroes due to both, his incredible impact on the nation and his unique appeal. Lincoln’s is a remarkable story. A story of rising from humble beginnings to achieve the highest office in the land and then a sudden […]
AYODHYA: The Dark Night | K. Jha & D. Jha | Book Review
SUBJECT: 5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 If I was to decide on 5 events that have influenced modern-day India, the “Babri Masjid demolition” would certainly feature on that list. On 6th December 1992, the structure was demolished by Karsevaks and this site has been under religious pressure since then. To millions […]
The Weekend that Changed Wall Street | Maria Bartiromo | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The Weekend that changed Wall Street is a book about the events that unfolded in the second week of September 2008 and that changed the whole modern-day Financial System. It answers questions like “How the crisis unravelled?” & “How all of it started?”. Written by Maria Bartiromo, […]
Poor Little Rich Slum | Rashmi Bansal, Deepak Gandhi | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 To become a great non-fiction author you need a mind-boggling subject, you have to do exhaustive research and you need such jargons in your book that people seldom understand. Read Rashmi Bansal’s books and you’ll realise that all that is just a myth. Who imagined […]
How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded a Million Dollar Company | Varun Agarwal | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded a Million Dollar Company has an interesting title and definitely lives up to the expectations of the reader. It is the true story of Varun Agarwal, a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, and how he came to start the […]