Category: Book Readings
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Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (by Katherine Frank)
This book is an interesting read about the personal life of Indira Gandhi. It is difficult for most of us Indians to talk impassively about the life of Indira Gandhi as a person and not as the prime minister of India. During her tenure and even till today she is said to be most hated…
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Outliers: The story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
Outliers tries to debunk the theory of “self-made-men”; about how we often associate success with just the personal qualities of individual like intelligence, hard work, courage. The point in the book is that there are many men with same qualities out there but not everyone is as successful. We owe something to our parentage and…
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The Black Swan – The impact of the highly improbable (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
It is hard to keep this book in any one category, particularly so when the author is a philosopher, a literary essayist and most interestingly a quant trader. The message of this book is the futility of creating complex mathematical models (and in believing them) to forecast future events. The real life is too complex…
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The One Percent Doctrine (by Ruskin Bond)
If there is even a one percent chance that America will be attacked by any organization in the world, America considers it as credible threat and acts now. Whether the threat is real or not is not important. This is the Cheney Doctrine that governs American Policy for Foreign Affairs and terrorism in future. The…
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Conspiracy of Fools (by Kurt Eichenwald)
This book goes in great detail on the collapse of Enron. One of the best books on Corporate Scandals and probably the best after Barbarians at the Gate. It is hard to believe that a Fortune 50 company could ever make such a mess of its finances and tries to cover it up with accounting…