Book Review: ‘Iacocca: An Autobiography’

Review: 5 stars This book is a gold mine. Labor relations, change management, marketing, Govt. relations, cost reduction, & the recent Trump rhetoric – I get to know all about it in this 370 page paperback, which was written way back in 1984. More than that it teaches you about persistence, about having a greed […]

Book Review: The Four Patriots

Sumit Agarwal is prescient. The recent events in the country – be it the ‘Surgical Strike’ against Pakistan or the ‘Demonetization Drive’ finds its way in the novel ‘The Four Patriots’, way before they actually happened. Even if you don’t take this book as a blueprint for the development of the nation, it is a […]

Book Review: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’

‘The island of Doctor Moreau’ reminds me of the robots in the Isaac Asimov novels, and the three laws of robotics. The first one goes something like this, “A robot may not harm a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.” There is a similar but a more selfish […]

My lady, you have no free will!

The next time you are laughing, remember you have absolutely no control over it. You may try to rationalize as to why you elicited that embarrassing snort that drew unneeded attention from all the quarters, but then your conscious mind has known how to delude yourself. All these post-hoc attributions to reasons for your laughter […]

Hypothesis v/s Insight

Imagine yourself to be Descartes sitting under an apple tree. An apple hits your head and you wonder, ‘Whether in this Earth-centric vortex, are there invisible particles which force the objects down towards Earth?’ Then again, imagine yourself to be Newton sitting under an apple tree. An apple hits your head, and you wonder, ‘Why […]

Creation of Quality

I am a man who has always lived in darkness. I know nothing, I perceive nothing. I don’t have any preconceptions. Complete, utter darkness – total isolation. Then I see a light, from a corner of the boulder that had been obstructing the view of the outside world, in this dark cavern that I have […]

Why all Happiness is Not Equal?

‘A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.’[1] – a Fremen Quote, Dune E.M. Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints says, ‘A chain is as strong as its weakest link’[2] or ‘any system is limited in its pursuit of achieving more of its objectives by a small set of constraints’. For the […]

Addicted

This is not a piece. It’s a note, for me to remember in future. Why are all the forms of Entertainment, so addictive? What do we find so pleasurable in Whatsapp chats? Why are we so hooked to our Tablets/PCs as we once were to our T.V.s? Why also do we constantly groan and lament […]

Graphic Novel 101: Prologue

Pulling off a ‘Watchmen’!

Like all great books that I have come to admire, it all started with a rejection. I rejected Harry Potter, because I believed him to be yet another wannabe magician who would pull out a rabbit from his hat. Rejection actually helps – it is a sifting mechanism, though improper, which allows me to focus […]