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This is a book tha tis a compiled edition of the number of essays that Dr Amartya Sen has written about various topics ranging from India’s history to its culture; Politics to Protests, Reason, its Diaspora included.
The book is a bit heavy if you dont have the patience to read though it. The vocabulary is good. I would advice not to search for links between the various essays and to look at them indivisually. Dont even attempt searching for a flow, you can easily start hating his style of narrration. If you dont read this book at a stretch and get some time for yourself to digest what he has told, this will be a good book, with all its knowlege and experience that is open to the world.
Dr Amartya gives the book the touch of an expert.. he has written it in a very verbose manner and one in which not many can follow. The book deals with a lot of topics and give a very broad view of those concepts. He has given some descrion about Ravindranath Tagore.. who seems to have had a lot of affect on his life. He deals with some nice and interesting concepts like the Sino-Indian relations and others. A very knowledeable book to read.. but be cautious that you expect that it is going to be hard for you in case you think it is for timepass… you will be utterly mistaken.

Arindam Chaudhuri has written this book after his wel known mangement book – “Count Your Chickens before they hatch”. This book also revolves around the “India Centric – mangement theory.
This is an inspirational book in a lot of ways, but I sometime feel he is too idealistic and we must understand that not all these things are going to work as easily as he has mentioned in the book. He has started a foundation… to implement the dream that he has seen through this book.. and his success is mostly limited to West Bengal. I think it takes us to think over again and understand that though the idea that he has given is nice one it takes much more to implement it.
He tries to be over motivating… and seriously I think he has failed to convince me. His ideas are nice… but not in complete synch with my lines of thought. I would take it up with a pinch of salt, rather than just go by what he says word by word.
A nice book to read.. to think out of the box to a certain degree, some new ideas suggested, some open problems of the nation brought out.. but they I feel are not complete solutions that he has sugested…. go ahead and read in case you love to read and knoe more….

This is one of those novels which you can read when you have the intension of not straining your brain. A total timepass, absolutely nothing to pickup from this book except may be realizing that not many are satisfied in life with the job they do, but still do it for the sake of the heavier pay slip.
The book is about a persons thought process and his nostalgic recollection about the days he had spent earlier in the same call center job. I personally feel there is a lot of cook up in the story and nowere do we feel that there can be a genuine one, the ends up by introducing a unknown God who will speak to all of them in the cab whn it land in some big pit!!! what more can you expect to be cooked up in the story?
Well I feel the message that he wants to give to the people is just that dont worry to take up a new venture and just dont bother about that risk you are going to take up.. its always worth the effort.

This book in not as good as the first book by the author named – “Five Point Someone”. Which was a instant hit among the readers in college… that one looked more realistic. Overall a disappoint to those who expected this book to be to the earlier ones standards.. looses way behind.

This book deals with the speculations that Nobel Laurate – Steven Weinberg makes about the conditions that existed for the first three minure of the creation of the universe.
He starts off with the reason he has this speculations, the expansion of the univese, the background radio wave radiations that where one the first clues in this direction, the various experiments that were conducted to know the origin of this radiations, the Doppler effect and its use in estimations.
He then starts off realing with the situations that exsisted for the first 3 minutes, he continues on with this speculations of the contents what he calls as the recipe of the universe (the various sub-atomic particles that where in the state) the reason why they were in that state, how they combined to form various other sub-atomic particles. This journey through the composition of the universe is very exciting one. He explains these situations in frames dealing, which makes it more like a photographic explanation. The has written it very nicely. He leaves the speculations of the first hundredth of a second so as to get the people to understand it better and later on reveals his understanding of this small time frame in a very nice way.
He concludes the book with a whole new prospects let to the reader to think in a fresh manner.

Over all a very well written book with a lot of information for those interested in the birth of universe.

This is one the first books I read, I have a lot of respect for this great man, who is the president of India.
Its an inspiring story to know about the person who started off from a tiny village in Rameshwaram and is now the First citizen of India, staying in NewDelhi.
The book gives a detailed account of the life of this great man, right from his birth to his education, his dreams, his work and then his acievements.
Some people feel, the book becomes less of his life story and more of the scientific milestones of the Indian defence. But that is what his life is about.. his life is all about those marvellous achievements that are part of Indian Defence now.
The book is a very motivating one, and gives a lot of messages to those who read it. The main message that I got from this book is – “Chase your Dreams”.
When you look at the chapters where he mentions about his mentors like – Satish Dhawan, Vikram SaraBhai, you realize how great these people were. How they nurtured young talent. This is exactly what I feel is missing now a days. The most touching instance for me in the book is that in which, the destined launch was flopped. It was a gr8 leadership lesson that I picked through this instance from the book.
You can find many more such instances in the book which are worth reading.

This book is based on the diary of Anne Frank who was a victim of Nazi attack.

A very informative book regarding the times and period of the Nazi Europe, it also give an insight into the mental thought that comes to any girl.

A tribute to the sufferings of those who were victims of the Nazis, this is a lot more than just an account of it. The detail description of how Anne’s family spent their time in hiding, just waiting to get the Nazi domination weaken, but it was it was their bad luck that this did not happen and their hide out got to be known.

A nice book to know about Europe and the plight of the people under the Nazi, the thoughts that come to a young girl, her feelings… A nice diary to read… and gain some insight.

This is a sort of autobiography of the great man – MohanDas KaramChand Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi.
It is more of a discussion of this thoughts and the things he had picked up in his life. His moral values and principles that he stuck to and the reason why he adopted to those beliefs.
The book is rather slow moving, and not very easy to finish. We come to know about his thoughts in great detail.
He stops narrating his life story at a point where he feels that the wolrd has seen him more closely.. so the narration is just till the point where he thinks that people have not seen him much closely. There are a lot of things that you can look forward to, in knowing his life.
The most striking thing in reading the book is his way of thought, not all that great to start off his life.. but as he goes on his nature of sticking and believing in the traditons gave him a new dimention.
If you are intrested in knowing something about this gr8 personality… this is a must read.

Hi is one path breaking book, I think it is the first book by any scientist to actually bridge the gap between the “Eastern Mysticism” and “Modern Physics”.Capra gives striking parallels between the two.
Again this being his first book I feel the thoughts are not as clear as in his other book – the turning point but still feel this has a lot of matter in it. The comparison and the introduction tho the different philosophies of the east, the various believes that these possessed, and the way they could be paralleled in the modern world are very good topics to think about.
He tries alomost convincingly to a great extent to draw parallel between the modern concepts of physics like the unity of matter, space time, dynamic universe, quark symetry with the philosphical thoughts of eastern – hinduism, buddhism, taoism, Zen and many more.
This book is worth a read when you have time and feel you have an interest in these things…

Fritjof Carpra, bascially a physicist is known all over the world for his path breaking book – “The Tao Of Physics.”
In this book – “The Turning Point”, Capra tries to make it clear to the pople reading the book that the wold is nearing a a point in all the fields which he calls the “Turning Point”. This Point is to be negotiated very well to get the maximum leverage of the situation and make the inveitable situation that necessiatate a change more pleasing and happy direction provider by just being ready for the change. This change which Capra points out need us to change our way of tought, form the traditional caresian view to the more wholistic view of life. It needs us to understand the subject not just as a peice that functions independently but as one which is intricately coupled and affected by every single thing in the universe.
From his first book I feel his way of writing has improved a lot and is now more intelligible to the reader. I loved the economic section the most personally, I think this is because he has told somethigns that I did not know prior to that.. the science section.. being a science student I feel I knew what he was attempting to pass on to me and so did not feel that section to be all that exciting.
The book is very informative to most of the people, but the only compalint I have against the book is he repeats a lot of the ideas may be coz he want to get the point to the reader at any cost. Over all a good book that gives us a broader view in life, but must bear with repetition of ideas a lot of times.

This author is just amazing, he explains the complex things related to the worlds most famous eqation in simple words. He is just too engaging in his style.
He starts off with Einstein coining the eqation, then the implications that the eqations meant to the world. The history behind the Atom bomb, the way the Germans intenstions were broken down just by a few brave youth, the way this changed the course of the World War.
He carries on the implications of the great equations in simple terms and attempts explaining the relevance to the universe and things like it.
A very well written book not just for the techies but aslo for the common man, almost minimal num of equations being mentioned in the book. Very well written.
This book in a must read for all those who want to know something about this famous equation… this is both for techies and not so techie people alike. Just go ahead and read it.