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  The Courage to be Disliked       How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness  Written by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga,  published by Penguin is less of a self-help book and more of psychological analysis of our mind’s decision making process. The book introduces Alfred Adler, a psychology academician and thinker who forms a trio along with two other towering pillars of psychology namely Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The bookwhich is in question-answer format, is discussion between a philosopher who had stern belief that the world is simple and happiness is achievable by everyone and his pupil who finds the world as chaotic and concepts of happiness as absurd. The book is divided into 5 chapters titled on the nights spent on discussions between the philosopher and pupil. In the first night, the discussion on Trauma and happiness is the key topic where philosopher states that everyone can be happy and trauma can be skipped. ...

इस लेख का शीर्षक लेख पूर्ण होने के बाद बदलना पड़ा। लेख पूर्ण होने के उपरांत सहसा लगा कि इस महान विभूति ने जीवन पर्यंत को प्राथमिकता दी है तो शीर्षक भी यात्रा आधारित होना चाहिए।  आज  आपका   परिचय   हिन्दी   साहित्य   के   उस   मूर्धन्य   साहित्यकार   से   कराने   जा   रहा   हूँ   जिसका   नाम   केदारनाथ   पांडे   था   लेकिन   प्रसिद्धि   हुई   राहुल   सांकृत्यायन   के   नाम   से।  बाद में उन्हें महापंडित की उपाधि से अलंकृत किया गया। इनका  जन्म  9 अप्रैल को  आज़मगढ़   ज़िले   में   हुआ।   सांकृत्यायन को   भारत   में   यात्रा   वृतांत   विधा   के   पितामह   के   रूप   में   भी   जाना   जाता   है   और   इन्हें  30  से   भी   अधिक   भाषाओं   का   ज्ञान   था।  इनकी   १३०   से   अधिक ...

Trust : Virtue or Calculation Some books are so engrossing and enriching that sharing them becomes obligatory because irrespective of the language they are written the message they convey is equally useful to all. so much so that they call for group reading sessions and wider discussion in clubs and colleges. Their applicability is not limited to schools or colleges but they are equally hit for boardrooms, war rooms, court rooms alike.  Matt Ridley is a celebrated author who has previously authored top selling titles like Genome and the Red Queen. To categorise The Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the evolution of Cooperation, published by The Penguin  in 1996 will be a tough task as it fits into several genre at the same time. Its a research document, a compilation of stories, history book, a economics paper. The book is categorised into 13 chapters dealing into different themes where cooperation has evolved as a modus towards mutual gains and development of society fr...

  The Psychology of Money  Stories are a powerful medium to convey a complicated message and have a lasting impact on audience. In this blog I am going to discuss and talk about one such book "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel which is published by JAICO Books in 2020. The book has caught the mind and attention of readers, academics and practitioner across the globe from different fields and when you complete the book, you know that it has done rightly so. The book is divided into 20 small chapters with catchy headlines and each chapter has few small stories/anecdotes to draw attention to the main point of the readers. The first 18 chapters draw the 18 biases and flaws in individuals while dealing with money and personal finances. The chapters are individual reads, hence can be read wherever ones willing, may be from 20 th to 1 st . 😊 The author introduces that the financial outcomes are not only driven by luck, independent of intelligence and effort which is on...

The Panama Papers: The untold India story of the trailblazing global offshore investigation                                      Authors: Ritu Sarin, Jay Mazoomdaar and P. Vaidyanathan Iyer                                     Publisher: Penguin Random House  2019  The book revolves around the leaks of the financial and legal documents of Panamanian law firm "Mossack Fonseca"  by ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)    ICIJ took up many projects to leak and investigate the few cases involving public interest like Paradise Papers, Panama papers, Swiss leaks, Luxembourg leaks etc which are related to public policy and shaped discourses in public life revolving around misuse of legal and regulatory framework in different count...

Just like there are He-Man, Super Man, Spider Man, there is an incumbent in Income Tax Dept named HQ-MAN. The best part of the IRS is that it offers you a wide variety of roles and exposure to different fields of finance and taxation world and makes you domain expert in direct taxes which is increasingly getting complex and intricately connected with the global tax structure and multilateral tax conventions. This is a welcome development for service and offers opportunity for IRS to set stage for its global recognition which is somewhat already there as several officers serving as well as those who served are working with world organizations like OECD, IMF and world Bank and top MNCs and Big 4s. This also calls for preparing the necessary skill-sets so that the IRS adapts itself with changing dynamics and delivers when called for. However, those who think that IRS deals only with Tax have a shallow view and the administration acumen of every taxmen is tested when he/...