Muses of Murari

Around the world in eighty days. A Charming novel. I picked up this book, once I saw the author’s name on it, Jules Verne. I still remember reading his other brilliant book, “Twenty thousand  leagues under the sea”. When I first read “Twenty thousand …”, I was simply blown away. Verne written a masterpiece. A [...]

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This book is perfect for business section in any library or book shop. And I think there are some personal take-aways also packaged in. This book is basically about how some of the good companies became great companies. This book is output of research done by Jim Collins and his team studying 11 companies, why [...]

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I decided to read this book, after hearing many good reviews & praises on it. Initially, I had imagined the book would be about the self-observation. It turned out to be exactly the same. I also expected it be story like. But it is not. It is full of many short notes of self critical [...]

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I think, this book has a targeted segment – to those who have burning desire to make a mark all by oneself. This book is collection of inspiring experiences of 25 IIM A alumni who took road less traveled- Entrepreneurship and succeeded/succeeding in their ventures. All the 25 stories runs into many a common trait [...]

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I should say this book is output result of good research about the successful people and how they happened to be at right time & at right place and many a time, they are given right opportunities that made them successful in their fields. Case studies given like Bill Joy and the series of events [...]

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When I first picked up this book in Landmark, Chennai, I am intrigued by the fact that its blurb says something interesting, but there are few number of praises or reviews on the book. In fact, I found only one praise on its cover page! I made a decision to buy. I read it. I [...]

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Confused by reading this freakish book, I was just lucky to stumble upon a stripped version of the book, “The Science & Philosophy of Religion” by Swami Vivekananda, which I bought years ago and was lying dormant! Just it was pure chance, that I stumbled upon this book and it clarified & cleared many things [...]

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It’s been a while I posted something here. So let me start up with a book review. Err! Not a review kind of, may be, just sharing few lines how good that book is! I always get fascinated by science. Though I am just a science enthusiast, I relish them and like to share them.  [...]

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Now a days, I am reading more and more, non-fiction books. Now, this book, I have selected, when I dropped in Landmark, talks on niche markets, that are served well by Internet, which otherwise, could not be accessed well. The title of the book or its blurb or the praise on the book covers, did [...]

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I didn’t read much of Jeffrey Archer’s books. Just the title and the blurb content of this book, teased me to spend some couple of hundred rupees to buy it. The book is not great in any sense, but it gave the glimpse of prison life. Though the prison life may not be same everywhere, [...]

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