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I earlier thought that I would rustle up the rough notes to write a more coherent piece. But, that is too much work. So, unloading my rough ...

The Ikigai book flashed in the bestseller section of bookshops for multiple years. I first glanced through the book in one of the Bangalore ...

  Tintin is a masterpiece created by Georges Remi, popularly known as Herge. Herge is nothing but French pronunciation of his reversed initi...

Like many others, I too have a reading wishlist. There are many books, blogs and online-articles in that list. I also have a watching-wishli...

Using tax money to fund social security programs like MGNREGA/UBI/etc seems unethical to me. This post is to explain my reasoning. Feedbacks...

The full name of the book is " 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know". It has got 50 chapters, as the book-name suggests. Each c...

I am for free-markets. Through my lived experiences and some reading, I have realized the amazing effectiveness of the invisible hand of mar...

হংসেশ্বরী পড়লাম । বইটা হতাশ করেনি। অষ্টাদশ শতাব্দীর শেষ থেকে উনিশ শতকের মাঝামাঝি বাংলার ছবি বেশ ভালো ফুটে উঠেছে।  লোকভাষা, প্রশাসন, জমিদারবা...

“দেখি নাই ফিরে” বই টা রামকিঙ্কর বেজ এর জীবনী। সমরেশ বসুর লেখা ও বিকাশ ভট্টাচার্যের আঁকা। দুই এ মিলে বেশ উপভোগ্য।  বইটা এক বছরেরও বেশি সময় ধ...

Investment > voluntary-charity >> forced-charity (a.k.a tax funded welfarism) Investment: Investor gains satisfaction and more weal...

This book is an autobiography. I loved Amartya Sen's prose in “The Argumentative Indian” and this book did not disappoint either. The de...

  My friend Sujit wrote a beautiful post about what he got right in graduate school. It nudged me to reflect on what I got right, by intent...

Being the product of our socialist Indian society, I did not readily believe in the positives of free-market. Then slowly, many authors/writ...

Skip Fatehpur Sikri! If you are on holiday and want to relax, avoid this place like the plague. The guides/touts/beggars will ruin it for yo...

I read Murder on the Orient Express after watching the movie. Watching the movie did not take anything away from my enjoyment of the book (a...

1. Infinity pool: I like it because of the aesthetics. It needs one sidewall lower than the water level and a pump to continuously maintain...