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How to Become Rich by Devdutt Pattanaik

How to Become Rich Book Review This book How to Become Rich: 12 lessons I learnt from Vedic and Puranic Stories is based on stories and concepts about money from Hindu mythology. The book draws a parallel between the modern concepts of wealth, exchange, taxes, money, investment, return on investment using the concepts from Vedas …

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The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes Book Review This book is filled with aphorisms – an observation that contains a general truth. Basically a rule of thumb. Usually true, but not always. I love aphorisms, proverbs, sayings, tweets as they distill wisdom in condensed form, in easily disgestible bite sized chunks. The book is similar but longer …

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Learning to Silence the Mind by Osho

Learning to Silence the Mind Book Review Learning to Silence the Mind is an amazing book to understand your Mind and Meditation. No matter what controversies Osho created in life, his thinking was very clear. One such gem: Whatsoever is taken as real, becomes real. Whatsoever is taken as unreal, becomes unreal. You are the …

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Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning Book Review All of us at some point of time have the questions – ‘What is the meaning of life?‘, ‘How to be happy?’, ‘How to deal with suffering?’ Man’s Search for Meaning is the book to read if you are looking for some answers. If hundreds of thousands of people …

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On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

On the Shortness of Life Book Review Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman, who wisely guided the Roman Empire through the early reign of Emperor Nero. Seneca, along with Marcus Aurelius, is one of the indispensable thinkers from Ancient Roman philosophy. The book On Shortness of Life …

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