Essays, reflections, and personal notes on the books I’ve read—and the thoughts they’ve left behind. This is not a space for reviews, but for resonance. You’ll find everything from ancient epics to thrillers, professional enrichment to classics. Some books made me pause. Others changed how I see the world. All of them, in some way, linger.
I was really waiting for this one. Ever since I heard Dan Brown had a new thriller coming, I’d been waiting. Got this as soon as it showed up in bookstores. Robert Langdon and his symbology. He dazzles, he races, he illuminates ancient texts with modern light. And yet, in The Secret of Secrets,…
I picked up Helgoland thinking it would be a book about physics. Equations, experiments, and the occasional anecdote about eccentric scientists. What I didn’t expect was a philosophical detour into the very nature of being. Rovelli gave me all the quantum mechanics I’d hoped for—but layered beneath it, like a whisper through a canyon,…
On how one Hunger Games prequel reopened a door I thought was closed… I didn’t love The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes book. When I read it at release, I was curious but skeptical about a Hunger Games prequel. Coriolanus Snow, after all, enters The Hunger Games trilogy as a fully-formed tyrant—an immaculate suit,…
Michael Connelly has long kept a steady rhythm — one novel a year, usually in October, often centered around Harry Bosch or Renée Ballard. Or, more infrequently around The Lincoln Lawyer. But Nightshade broke that rhythm. It arrived early. Unexpectedly. And with a new voice. Garrett Stillwell isn’t LAPD. He’s with the LA County…
I recently read Richard Koch’s The 80/20 Principle. I expected a productivity book. And that’s what it is—brisk, strategic, full of charts and capitalism. But like all sharp tools, it left me with questions far beyond the domain of work. The principle is simple: 80% of outcomes come from 20% of inputs. Focus on…
Recently I read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut—a slim novel draped in satire, soaked in sadness. This book was on my read list for quite some time. I picked it up as a companion for a short trip with four hours of flying between cities. It is a slim book, and I thought I’d…
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane is a book about artificial intelligence. But it is also a book about animals, dreams, loopholes, and misunderstandings. And it is, most surprisingly, a book full of affection. I came to it long after its publication, as a way of learning and…
In the previous two posts, I introduced Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland and the concept of Quantum Entanglement or Quantum Coherence. This post is about the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and its relationship with Nagarjuna. I first heard about Nagarjuna in an Operations Strategy lecture taken by Prof. Saral Mukherjee at IIM Ahmedabad in 2021….
In my last post on Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, I said that the Quantum entanglement and relational interpretation of the quantum mechanics need their own posts. This is the post on Quantum entanglement. However, this is not only about entanglement, but also about coherence. I first heard about quantum entanglement in a talk by…
It’s not very often that I read a book that blows my mind. Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli is one such. Carlo Rovelli is an Italian Theoretical Physicist and he has written several popular science books. Helgoland is my first one and I believe that now there will be several more. The book is in…