Posts from the literature category.
There’s a certain kind of silence that doesn’t feel empty… it feels watchful.The kind you don’t notice at first.The kind that slowly begins to notice you.That’s the space I found myself in while reading The Tubewell House by Abhishek Chaudhary.At one level, it’s the story of Ashank Sinha — a man who has stepped away from the velocity of Mumbai’s financial world into the deceptive stillness of a vi...
There’s a certain kind of discomfort that doesn’t come from complexity… but from recognition.You read something, and instead of learning, you find yourself quietly exposed.That’s the space I found myself in while reading The Psychology of Trading by Sunil Gurjar.Let me say this upfront — I am not a trader.I don’t follow the markets. I don’t read charts. I don’t wake up to price movements.And yet, ...
There’s a certain kind of story that doesn’t begin when the journey starts — it begins when everything looks settled.A job. Stability. A version of life that makes sense to everyone else.And then, somewhere quietly… it stops making sense to you.That’s where An Indian Traveler by Saurabh Gupta truly begins.Not with destinations — but with a decision.What stayed with me almost immediately is how thi...
There are some lives you don’t witness… yet they find a way to stay with you.I never saw Maya in real life. No safari sighting, no fleeting glimpse through the lens, no moment where the forest held its breath and revealed her. And yet, somewhere between these pages of Forever Maya by Anant Sonawane, that absence quietly stopped mattering. Because this isn’t a book that lets you remain outside the ...
An observant, bubbling, enthusiastic Lali comes to a coffee estate in Karnataka with her parents. Her parents are employed at the coffee plantation as daily wage workers. She befriends Champa, the daughter of the estate owner. The two girls are very different from one another, yet they complement each other. The rural Kannada context is shown in the food, names of people, setup of dusty roads, gre...
There’s a certain kind of book you don’t just read — you slip into it like an old, familiar playlist. The kind where every note feels predictable… until suddenly, it isn’t. That’s exactly what happened to me with Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter.I went in expecting a light, feel-good teen rom-com. Something easy. Something comforting. And yes, it is all of that — but it’s also quietly more o...
There are some books you finish… and then quietly sit with, as if something inside you needs a moment to rearrange itself.A Brief History of Love did that to me.Not dramatically. Not in a way that announces itself. But in a slow, almost unsettling way — like realizing that something you’ve trusted your whole life might not be entirely yours.Because what if love… isn’t just yours?I went into this b...
There’s a particular kind of leadership story that doesn’t begin in boardrooms.It begins in moments you don’t see — quiet decisions, uncomfortable trade-offs, the kind that don’t make headlines but shape everything that follows.Reading A CEO’s Brew, I found myself thinking less about the scale of $60 billion… and more about the weight of the choices behind it.That’s where A CEO’s Brew by Sanjiv Me...
There are books you read.And then there are books that make you forget you’re reading — because your body reacts faster than your mind can process.Somewhere around the middle of The Girl in the Glass Case, I realized I hadn’t moved for a while. Not even to adjust my posture. Just eyes locked. Breath slightly uneven. That quiet, involuntary tension you don’t notice until it’s already taken over.I h...
There was a moment, somewhere between two questions, when I stopped reading.Not because I was tired.But because I was… uncomfortable.Not the kind of discomfort a difficult book gives you.The quieter kind. The kind that makes you realise how much you thought you knew —and how much you actually don’t.That’s where The Viksit Bharat Quiz Book: Know Your Bharat, One Question at a Time! by Partha Sarthi...
