Book Reviews by Dr.Mani

Malcolm Gladwell’s DAVID & GOLIATH: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, like the legendary biblical anecdote, is about the triumph of the puny against the great. In a series of historical studies and real-life stories, the author makes a convincing, fact-backed case for how what appears to be, by conventional standards, a “disadvantage” … Read more

Sometimes you pick up a book not for any epic revelation, or soul-stirring emotion, or paradigm-shifting discovery… but just because you’re intrigued by the premise of a question that begins with “What if…?” That’s also why I expected ‘The Gorgeous Dozen‘ to be a light, light-hearted read. Vivek Aiyyar’s debut novel was that – and … Read more