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“Intellectual Capital”

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

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.
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“Many Lives, Many Masters”

January 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Books

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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“Buffett : The Making of a American Capitalist”

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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 of Buffett, [...]

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Few thoughts on “Blood and Oil”

October 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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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“Buddha: A story of Enlightenment”

October 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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 on [...]

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“Banker to the Poor” by Muhammed Yunus

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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”

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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 great [...]

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Talking to BrainVilla’s founder

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion

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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Views on “Good to Great”

June 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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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Notes on “Notes to Myself”

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Books

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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