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Ankur’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ankur Mithal
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| This is not your usual book about money, trying to prove every theory to the last decimal point. Through stories and examples, it tries to explore how people make financial decisions. Reminded me of a colleague in the big bank I used to work in, when ...more | |
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![कई चांद थे सरे-आसमां [Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman] by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1465896351l/30593906._SY75_.jpg "कई चांद थे सरे-आसमां [Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman] by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi")
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| The book is an epic. It has a vast historical sweep, set in the slightly hazy period when the Mughal dynasty was declining and the British gaining control over the sub-continent, a little over a hundred years from early 18th to the mid-19th century. ...more | |
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Barnes' prose is brilliant; humorous on many occasions, descriptive at times, and brilliant always. But this collection is not, at least for me. I did not finish some of the stories :-(. Themed around one Biblical event, the stories are widely varied; ...more |
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Travel books tend to be chronological, and recommendatory. What you should do, where you should go, what you should stay away from, etc. This book is neither. We are in 2026, and enough people have travelled to enough places in India, and overseas, a ...more |
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| Gut-wrenching. Demonstrates that there is no level too low for humans to descend to, with the ability to provide moral self-justification for their deeds, which eventually are in pursuit of power and wealth. The book is a story about the horrors that ...more | |
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Quite Premchand-ian. With several threads opening, merging, diverging, again and again. A wide variety of rich characters; rich and poor, Hindu, Muslim and Christian, men and women, robbers and saints, etc. And, as always, great language. Where I foun ...more |
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| The book is an epic. It has a vast historical sweep, set in the slightly hazy period when the Mughal dynasty was declining and the British gaining control over the sub-continent, a little over a hundred years from early 18th to the mid-19th century. ...more | |
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| This is not your usual book about money, trying to prove every theory to the last decimal point. Through stories and examples, it tries to explore how people make financial decisions. Reminded me of a colleague in the big bank I used to work in, when ...more | |
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| Finally a business book that talks about business the old-fashioned way; as something you do because you have an interest in it, as something that could be risky, that you have to rough/ tough it out to succeed in, with the goal of forever doing it a ...more | |
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| Fascinating account told from a unique perspective, of a former Count held 'captive,' unbelievably, in one of the swishest hotels in the world, from the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. And of the many characters that he keeps colliding with though ...more | |
“Going against the customs of the Court and high society that consider it normal to make the lower classes wait indefinitely, Hazrat Mahal has never been able to accept this disregard for others, this manner of monopolising their time....this tendency to make them waste their lives, just out of indifference. She knows very well that for those who have nothing, offering their time is proof of their devotion.”
― In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
― In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
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