SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 RELEVANCE: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” Sadly these words uttered by the famous American Management Consultant and Management Guru Peter F. Drucker hardly ring true in the case of millions of engineering graduates that our country produces […]
Why the Vada Seller Refused a Sale | Satish Mandora | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Self-help books are like a magic wand nowadays with an expectation of delivering astronomical results in a short duration. I have always wondered about their authenticity and promises, about why there is still poverty or as to why is there so much unemployment in the world? The […]
Kasauli Lights | Dimpy Ajrawat | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 What is the secret to life? Someone asks, Is it money? Is it power? Is it all the materialistic things this world has to offer? or is it Happiness in whichever form one sees it. “Kasauli Lights” is an artistic piece of work […]
Hitched: The Modern Woman and Arranged Marriage | Nandini Krishnan | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 What is it about arranged marriages that people are always so scared to take that leap of faith and give into it? Why is it that we prefer the comfort zone of a known person in a love marriage than getting to know […]
Chanakya’s 7 Secrets of Leadership | Radhakrishnan Pillai | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RELEVANCE: 4.5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Chanakya’s 7 Secrets of Leadership by Radhakrishnan Pillai is the 2nd in the series to his best-seller, Corporate Chanakya. Though it is claimed to be the continuation of the first book, I did not have any problems following the series’ new book despite not having the […]
The Love Diet | Shonali Sabherwal | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3/5 RESEARCH: 3.5/5 RELEVANCE: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Food has become the topic of much discussion these days. What do we eat? How do we eat? When do we eat? and How much we eat? are a few questions which we are frequently asked every now and then. In an era, […]
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science | Will Storr | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 The world is never short of alternate sciences or theories or remedies or any other thing. If there is a correct way to do a thing, many alternate ways, some good and some farce, always find a way into existence. Allopathy, homoeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, etc. Psychotherapy […]
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus | John Gray | Book Review
SUBJECT: 2.5/5 WRITINGS STYLE: 1/5 RESEARCH: 1.5/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2/5 If we look into the relationship psychology of men (supposedly Martians) and women (yup you guessed it right Venusians), both have a different perspective about an ideal relationship, but can one really divide both the categories into entirely different races. I wonder what […]
Supertraits of Superstars | Priyanka Sinha Jha | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3/5 RELEVANCE: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 If I talk about the factors and forces which most efficiently bind India together, and which more or less can be referred to as an invisible & intangible cultural force, Bollywood is sure to find a mention, second only to cricket which is often hailed […]
A School Counsellor’s Diary | Loya Agarwala | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 RELEVANCE: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2.5/5 Sometime back, while scrolling through Westland’s reading list for a particular month, I found A School Counsellor’s Diary. The title was so catchy that not bothering to look on the internet about what the book was, I casually ordered it as a reading […]
Lady You’re Not a Man | Apurva Purohit | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 2.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5 /5 I recently reviewed a book by Disha Chhabra “My Beloved’s MBA Plans”, well the one I am writing this review, for now, is also on a somewhat related subject i.e. “Work-Life Balance” but here the centre focus of the discussion is the […]
English Bites | Manish Gupta | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RELEVANCE: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 English is the world’s local language. As of 2012, 1.4 billion people used English, either as a primary or as a secondary language. This number is only increasing every year. Its rise to prominence and its future outlook are subject to debate and better left […]