Posts from the personal development category.
There is something quietly unsettling about birthdays once you cross a certain age. The cake is still sweet, the candles still flicker, but beneath the ritual there is an inventory being taken. What did I become this year? What slipped away unnoticed?That is the emotional temperature of Birthday Stories, curated by Haruki Murakami — not festive, not nostalgic in a sentimental way, but introspectiv...
Some people are afraid of heights.Some are afraid of failure.And some are afraid of the one moment where everything is supposed to look perfect.The Landing begins in the cockpit, but it quickly makes it clear that the real descent is internal.First Officer Anvi Singh is the kind of woman our culture celebrates without hesitation — disciplined, decorated, precise. A rising star trusted with lives t...
I picked up It’s Easy to Be Healthy by Malaika Arora expecting another glossy celebrity fitness book — the kind with curated routines, aspirational photos, and promises of overnight transformation.But from the very first page, I realized this was different. It felt like sitting across from a friend at a quiet café in Mumbai, the monsoon pouring outside, the streets alive with honking taxis and str...
There’s a particular kind of confidence that comes from building something without excess. Not the loud confidence of billion-dollar funding rounds or glossy launch events — but the quiet certainty of knowing every screw, every line of code, every decision had to justify its existence.LeanSpark feels like that kind of confidence.I began reading it at a time when every startup headline seemed to sc...
I keep thinking about how casually we take photographs now. A thumb tap. A half-smile. A moment frozen without intention. Kachri Kamble: Selfie That Rewrote Politics made me uneasy about that casualness. It reminded me that in the age of spectacle, innocence doesn’t need to be loud to be punished — it only needs to be visible.I read this book slowly, not because the narrative drags, but because it...
Sitting across a café table, the gentle hiss of the espresso machine in the background, I find myself thinking about how some books don’t just occupy a shelf — they quietly occupy a part of your mind. Reminiscent Reticence by Dr. Infini Lionne is one of those rare companions. From the moment I opened it, there was a hush, a subtle invitation to step inside the spaces we often avoid: the quiet corn...
I didn’t open The Life That’s Waiting expecting to be moved. I opened it the way you open a window at dawn — carefully, unsure whether the air outside will soothe you or make the ache more obvious. Brianna Wiest has a way of meeting readers exactly there, in that fragile moment when holding it all together starts to feel heavier than falling apart. This book didn’t rush me forward. It sat beside m...
I opened Stories of Courage on a day when nothing dramatic was happening in my life — and that’s exactly why it unsettled me. No crisis. No breaking news. Just an ordinary day. Yet within a few pages, the ground under that ordinariness began to shift. Not violently. Gently. The way perspective changes when you overhear someone else’s truth on a bus or at a café table. You keep reading, but part of...
I didn’t plan to read Never Say Die slowly. It just happened that way. A few pages at a time. Then a pause. Then a longer pause. Not because the book drags, but because it keeps nudging something personal. The kind of nudge that makes you put the book face down, stare into nothing for a moment, and think, Alright… I need to sit with this.Most business memoirs arrive dressed for applause. They spar...
We talk a lot about heartbreak. This book is about the decisions that come before it — the calculated exits, the postponed conversations, the confidence that silence is harmless. It explores how leaving doesn’t always require walking away. Sometimes it just requires not staying.Debasish Talukdar’s The Silence I Left Her In does not announce itself as a love story, nor does it pretend to be a redem...
