Archives for Non-Fiction
5 Personal Essays Compilations By Women
Personal Essays by Women There is something about personal essays and memoirs that reel me in. The glimpse into the life of another, peering through the glass of the layers…
Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom from A Monk’s Bowl by Om Swami
During my virtual wanderings, I stumbled upon a Video by Om Swami. He looked too young to be a Swami. He spoke softly but with a heavy accent in English…
How My Kindle Changed My Reading Habits!
I took a long time to buy my first Kindle. It was on that side of the debate where books were sacrosanct. You needed to hold it in your hand…
Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker by Pavan K Varma
Adi Shankaracharya – Why did none of my textbooks ever thought me about this? This is the first question that comes to your mind when you hold this book in…
Rama and Ayodhya by Meenakshi Jain
For last 30 odd years, we know of Rama and Ayodhya through the Ram Janambhoomi controversy. As a college going student, I have lived through the demolition of Babri Masjid.…
Life Among The Scorpions by Jaya Jaitly
Life Among the Scorpions are the memoirs of Jaya Jaitly. I have always known her as someone who was the force behind setting up my favorite Dilli Haat. I know…
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game is the path-breaking book by Taleb after The Black Swan and Anti-fragile. I have all the three books, but I never got to sit and read…
The Monk Who Became Chief Minister by Shantanu Gupta
Yogi Adityanath invokes curiosity at various levels. He is an unlikely candidate to be a politician or a Chief Minister of the most populous state of India. His saffron clothes…
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Betty Mahmoody is an American author born on 9 June 1945 in Alma, Michigan, United States. She was married to an Iranian man Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody. Betty Mahmoody’s famous novel…
Why I Killed the Mahatma by Koenraad Elst
Why I killed the Mahatma by Koenraad Elst is a thorough analysis of the last speech by Nathuram Godse in the court. I had read the speech a few years…