Muses of Murari

To all my friends (& future friends) out there. Books are one of the important things I cherish. Because for the reasons we all know. Though I am not a voracious reader, I do keep track the read-list and wish-list. I am no ego-booster. So dont want to talk on first category. I wish you [...]

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Much of the content in this book is not radically new. It’s much been in ether of the current business environment. What it is interesting is, this book was first released in 90′s and one could easily appreciate the time and at when the bold concepts were explained. The author explains the concept behind “Intellectual [...]

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After watching Devdutt‘s talk on “East Vs. West” on TED online, many old thoughts came to my memory. We are told (in our country) from our childhood about Indian mythology stories and concept of karma, rebirth based on karmic fruits and so on. I’m sure most of us don’t take this belief very seriously and [...]

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One thing that surely going to happen when you complete reading this book – you will get inspired. This auto biography of world’s greatest investor Warren Buffett, blows you away how with simple nuggets one can make money. This books peeks in to intriguing and yet extra-ordinary life of Warren Buffett. This book covers life [...]

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I’d confusion regarding connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda, while I was at college. This was when America invaded Iraq after 9/11 incident. I thought that there must be some link. Later I was told stories on WMD. Months later, Saddam Hussein was persecuted, Iraq became more dangerous place to live in and posed no [...]

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I picked up this book to get immersed in much needed peace. Rather I got a fictionalized story telling. Although the book didn’t quenched my expectations, it gave me a bit of inner calmness. Generally, in my opinion, books leaves lots of impressions. When I read a book, it stamps lots of thoughts and ideas [...]

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Many of you must have heard about Grameen Bank. This book is the autobiography of the founder of Grameen Bank. For those who are not aware of Grameen Bank, let me give a short gist of its background. Grameen Bank started by Muhammed Yunus in Bangladesh. It basically provides micro-loans to the poor people, whom [...]

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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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Today, I had a chance to meet an entrepreneur, who until recently was my supervisor-like. He recently bootstrapped a book and toy lending venture, BrainVilla. This start up is kinda unique one, in the sense, it not only rents & sells books, which other companies like librarywala.com, flipkart.com does, but also rents toys. Interestingly, he [...]

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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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