Posts from the philosophy category.
There are books that teach. Books that preach. And then there are books that awaken. Dr. Smruti Ranjan Nayak’s Battlefield to Boardroom belongs to that rare third category — the kind that doesn’t merely speak to your intellect but reaches deep into your conscience and whispers, “Lead, but with purpose.”I remember pausing midway through the first chapter — somewhere between Krishna’s calm counsel o...
There’s something profoundly beautiful about inherited wisdom — the kind that isn’t written in textbooks but whispered over steaming cups of chai in courtyards fragrant with history. The Marwari Mindset: 10 Proverbs. 10 Stories. 100 Years of Business Wisdom by Chetan Murarka feels like sitting beside an elder who doesn’t just tell you how to do business, but how to live with dignity, discipline, a...
There are some books that don’t just tell a story — they unspool a silence you’ve been carrying within yourself. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay is one of them. I remember reading it late one evening, the rain tapping against my window like a nervous confession. By the time I closed the book, I wasn’t sure whether it was the rain outside or the one that had started within me.Madhuri Vijay, in her d...
Image Location : Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico.Someone chiseled / scratched these figures into these rocks a few centuries ago. To record what they saw perhaps, explain it to others. Commemorate a change in nature? Interpretation to present a perspective? Doodling?Not much is known about what these figures represent - perhaps lost knowledge. Could we be seen in the same lig...
“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, b...
We are but a passing thought for them. Mildly interesting curiosities at best.
There are stories that roar with grandeur, and there are stories that whisper eternal truths. The Story of Mahabharata: Part 3 by Kaushal Kishore somehow does both. I began reading it late one night — rain murmuring against the window, a faint aroma of chai lingering — and within minutes, I was no longer in my room but standing on the dusty plains of Kurukshetra. The conch shells had sounded, the ...
There’s a strange kind of silence that follows a good martial arts fight — that heartbeat of stillness between power and peace. Reading Under the Dragon’s Shadow by D.G. Schulman felt exactly like living inside that moment. The adrenaline, the grit, the grace — and then the quiet introspection that lingers after the final blow.I’ll admit, when I picked this one up, I expected a straightforward mar...
Imagine walking into a college where there are no classrooms, no exams, no professors with tweed jackets and tired eyes. Instead, you’re handed challenges that strip you bare — not your clothes, but your carefully stitched identities, your polished masks, your curated self. That’s the premise of Ugesh Sarcar’s What Matters (Volume One: Credibility) — a book that doesn’t politely ask for your atten...
