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TRUST

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Trust Hernan Diaz Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.  This fiction is based in United States of America around early 1900 written by Hernan Diaz and published by Picador Books in 2022 and Booker Prized. The book is a story about business family which has migrated from Glasgow to United States of America. The book is in four parts which offers four different narrative. The unique format of the storytelling is USP, it has used both the descriptive format as well as the producing the first person account of the characters. It is a story of the couple Andrew Bevel and Mildred in New York.  In part one Bond, the description of the perspective by novelist Harold Vanner describes how money was made by Benjamin Rask (pseudonym) in trading. It is also the most popular version which was acceptable in New York. Rask was a trader and finance wizard with seldom any inclination for emotional aspects of life. When he got married to Helen, his life takes a sweet ...
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Shattered Land : A Journey of Partitions

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  Shattered Land Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia    Sam Dalrymple / Harper Collins 2025 We all have studied history from different perspectives as presented by different historians to the ideology they have followed like left historians , sub-altern etc. The credit to Sam goes for the fact that he has presented this book as factually as possible without any tint of ideological bias. The book is divided into 15 chapter with detailed notes, epilogue, acknowledgement notes, maps and illustrations. The book starts with the introduction of the Simon Commission and it’s visit to Bombay wherein it held deliberations with Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Sarojini Naidu and Mahatma Gandhi . The relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah soured over certain misunderstanding. The chapter introduces the readers to the personal life of Jinnah, his wife Ruttie and daughter Dina . There is interesting map which shows places visited by Simon Commission, which starts from Ad...
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CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable

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CHAOS: The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable written by James Gleick , published by Vintage Books in 1998 is a popular science book which has been presented in a layman's language. The book takes an attempt to break the artificial boundaries that separate scientific disciplines because science is the global nature of systems and chaos has got together thinkers from various wheels that have been separate. Chaos poses problems that defy accepted ways of working science. James Gleick was science reporter and editor of New York Times. It is written after a long observation of scientific phenomenon and decades of reporting on different science verticals. The book is divided on the basis of different themes of chaos like in the chapter " The Butterfly Effect ", he discusses the story of Edward Lorenz , which talks about the famous Lorenz curve study of weather prediction . The story of how he discovered that the weather behaviour was dependent on the initial co...
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Zero to One : Notes on Startup

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Peter Theil, a technocrat, figures as one of the lead mentors in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurship. He has also taught at Stanford. Zero  to One :  Notes on start-ups or how to build the future is a book which he has written along with Blake Masters, published by Penguin Random House in 2014.  The book is presented in 14 chapters ranging from compilation of experiences on start-up , culture , entrepreneurship and business world, has a cult following. in this book, he tried to work on some of the concepts for new age business world and suggested new age founders. He writes that this book is about how to build companies that create new things. Technology is miraculous because it allows us to do more with less, ratcheting fundamental capabilities to a higher level. He explains why it is easier to start a new technology in start-ups as he says it’s hard to develop new things in big organisations, and it’s even harder to do it by yourself. Bureaucratic hierarchy is more s...
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SKIN IN THE GAME : HIDDEN ASSYMMETRIES IN DAILY LIFE

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a known name amongst the academics and practitioners alike. He is a Bond in the field who has written multi-book series Incerto which means uncertainity in Latin. So in the series he talks about the uncertainity as it plays out in our daily life. This book is one of the constituent in likes of The Black Swan, AntiFragile, Fooled by Randomness amongst others. The book is published by Penguin Randomhouse, UK in 2018.  The book is divided into 19 chapters. The basic premise of the book is to explain that whatever person gives advice he should have a skin in the game which roughly translates to that a person should not advise when he has nothing to lose about an investment and advisor should not advise if he have nothing to lose about. As he writes in the introduction that Skin in the Game is about four topics in one. Firstly it is about uncertainity and reliability of knowledge , secondly, symmetry in human affairs like justice, fairness, responsibility ...
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Why The Poors Don’t Kill Us

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  Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us  The Psychology of Indians  by Manu Joseph, published by Aleph Book Company in 2025. Before I put my own words in the blog, lets read the author's note which states,  “This book is about how Indians behave, narrowly by a mystery – why is there peace between the classes in one of the most unequal regions on earth?” Manu Joseph ( Here ) is an Indian writer, journalist and editor of Open magazine. Previously, he has written fictions and has long and illustrious literary career. As a reporter, he has covered many stories across the India and world. This book basically sums up his observations on such assignments and othwerwise and its analysis.   The author has divided this book into 18 chapters and in chapter 1, he deals with " Who is Poor ". Basically in India, we cannot have a definition what the world over is accepted and how it is governed by pure pragmatism where he gives some anecdote relating to his experience as reporter wh...
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राजधानी एक्सप्रेस वाया उम्मीदपुर हॉल्ट

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राजधानी एक्सप्रेस वाया उम्मीदपुर हॉल्ट  यह पुस्तक मूलतः संघ लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा आयोजित सिविल सेवा परीक्षा के तैयारी के दौरान एक साथ आए युवाओं के दोस्ती, संघर्ष और बलिदान की दास्तान है। लेकिन इसे सिर्फ़ सिविल सेवा परीक्षा तक सीमित कर देना अनुचित होगा क्योंकि यह पुस्तक आपको युवाओं के सपनों की उड़ान के पीछे क्या क्या दर्द छुपा होगा है उससे परिचय करवाती है। पुस्तक का प्रकाशन हिंदी युग्म प्रकाशन ने २०२५ में किया है। लेखक भारतीय राजस्व सेवा के वरिष्ठ अधिकारी हैं जिन्होंने पूर्व में कविता संग्रह प्रकाशित किए हैं और हिंदी साहित्य से वर्षों से  संबद्ध रहे हैं। उपन्यास की साहित्यिक समीक्षा के उपरांत ऐसा कतई नहीं लगेगा कि इसके रचनाकार का मूल कार्य साहित्य के इतर है । सिविल सेवा परीक्षा भारत देश में एक सम्प्रदाय के समान है,  जिसमें कोई अभ्यर्थी किसी भी जाति, धर्म, क्षेत्र और भाषाई विविधता का हो लेकिन उसके सिविल सेवा तैयारी के दौरान के अनुभव लगभग समान होते है और दिल्ली ही इस संप्रदाय का मुख्यालय बनाया जा सकता है। आपने यदि मुखर्जी नगर और राजेंद्र नगर में एक माह का समय भी सिविल सेवा की...
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