Posts from the personal development category.
I’ll tell you where I was when I opened Sach Kahun Toh. Midnight. Rain outside. My bedside lamp spilling that warm amber glow across the pages. And almost instantly, it felt less like I was reading a book and more like Neena Gupta herself had pulled up a chair across the table and begun to talk. Not with the guardedness of a celebrity, not with the practiced diplomacy of someone used to cameras, b...
A beautiful and ultimately sad story of a chef who lived in the highest realms of grand cooking. One of two books that I have read on the topic - the other being Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. And he took his own life too. I have on occasion entertained this fantasy of having my own restaurant and cooking for a living. Of planning out my dining room, what the menu might look like and th...
When I closed the book, it felt less like shutting a Kindle and more like slamming shut a courtroom door echoing with unanswered questions. My pulse was still racing; my thoughts tangled in a single dilemma: what happens when the law you’ve always trusted suddenly feels powerless? Dr. Ddharaniikota Ssuyodhan’s Disha: The Ultimate Direction doesn’t just tell a story — it drags you into the uneasy s...
You’re curled up in your favourite nook, the world buzzing outside, when someone leans across the table and whispers, “Hey…what if all the noise around and inside you isn’t real? What if you could shoo it away?” That’s exactly the feeling Anamika Mishra’s Shoo the Noises gave me. I hadn’t heard of Mishra before, but now I’m convinced she has this rare knack for taking the chaos of modern life and ...
I thought I was signing up for a high school romance. What I got was a heartbreak so raw, I ended up hugging my pillow like it owed me comfort. Laura Nowlin’s If He Had Been With Me doesn’t just tell a story—it takes you by the hand, pulls you into the messy corridors of teenage life, and then leaves you with a silence that echoes long after the final page.At its heart, this is the story of Autumn...
Have you ever had a conversation that left you lighter, as if someone had quietly rearranged the furniture of your thoughts? That’s exactly how I felt after finishing Manhood Womanhood Let’s Talk Humanhood by Chirasree Bose. This isn’t the kind of book that shouts its wisdom at you; instead, it leans in close, lowers its voice, and says, “Let’s just talk.”Chirasree Bose, already an acclaimed autho...
I’ll admit it — I’m a skeptic when it comes to self-help books. Too many of them blur into one another, offering quick-fix formulas or lofty promises that rarely feel grounded in real life. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve started one, only to put it aside halfway through because the voice felt distant or the advice, recycled. But Masarrat Ahmad Shah surprised me with Unleashing Your Ra...
Last week, on one of those restless evenings when scrolling endlessly on my phone wasn’t enough and I craved something more nourishing, I stumbled upon Let the Caterpillar Fly by Yashpal Sharma. The title itself hooked me — I mean, who hasn’t felt like a caterpillar, heavy with unrealized potential, secretly wondering if wings might be hiding somewhere inside? That image alone made me pause, and I...
I wonder, how to find answers for the questions I hold.I wonder, how to not slip into the trap of meaningless things.I wonder, how to know what it is I truly seek.I wonder, how to walk the path my future unfolds.I wonder, how to make peace with what I have.I wonder, how to push myself to rise further.I wonder, how to follow the quiet voice of my heart.I wonder, how to care less, and soften the hur...
You know that feeling when a book doesn’t just sit in your hands, but seems to breathe in the room with you? That was me with Awakener: Authorized Biography of a Yogi by Katia Mossin. I picked it up thinking it would be another spiritual biography — a genre I’ve read plenty of, from Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi to more modern accounts. But within a few pages, I realized this wasn’t just abo...
