Posts from the philosophy category.
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...
Every year, as the first beats of dhol echo through the streets and the air fills with the colors on celebration, Navratri arrives- not just as a festival, but as a gentle reminder of something deeply powerful: the strength of being a woman.Navratri, with its nine nights honoring the nine forms of Goddess Durga, is more than just a ritual. For many women, it mirrors the nine lives they live every ...
When I was a child, someone told me that Shiva was a god who could wear ashes as perfume, dance in cremation grounds as if they were ballrooms, and yet be the tender husband who tied Parvati’s anklet when it came loose. That image has never left me. So, when I picked up Adideva: 25 Legends Behind His 25 Names by Deepa Bhaskaran Salem, I half expected familiar retellings. Instead, I found myself tu...
I didn’t expect to find myself sprinting through the cobbled streets of Prague at midnight, heart hammering, clutching a book that seemed to pulse with its own life, but there I was.Dan Brown is back, after nearly a decade, and he’s brought Robert Langdon with him — the Harvard symbologist whose wardrobe is as memorable as his mind: loafers, turtlenecks, and a Mickey Mouse watch, a little like a l...
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...
Reading A Grain of Sand felt less like turning pages and more like hearing a temple bell in the middle of an ordinary day — sudden, resonant, impossible to ignore. You know that sound — the way it cuts through chatter, traffic, even your own restless thoughts, and demands a pause. That’s exactly what happened here. One moment I was casually skimming, thinking I knew where the book was heading, and...
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...
