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8 pieces of empire – Book Review

January 24, 2012 / Books, Reviews

8 pieces of empire is a twenty year journey through the Soviet collapse. Written by Lawrence Scott Sheets who was the National Public Radio NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from 2001 to 2005. The book traces history of the region in the wake of the ten minute December 25th 1991 address that in his opinion made 300 million people ‘the citizens of other countries’ without them really realizing it. As a young correspondent in Soviet Union to being the Caucasus region [...]

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Marjorie Agosin and her Poems

January 6, 2012 / Books, Featured, Reviews, Society

I had the pleasure to read the poems of Marjorie Agosin, poet and Human Right Activist. When you read a varied set of subjects that pertain to your interests you often stumble upon something that sticks with you. Something that leave you wanting more and makes you think such that you are forced out of your own self. That is what Marjorie’s poems did to me. They pushed me out of my comfort zone and made me watch myself in [...]

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Islam Without Extremes – Book Review

January 2, 2012 / Books, Featured, Reviews

Mustafa Akyol’s “ISLAM without Extremes” is a must read for every muslim and non-muslim. A relevant and important book for our times that takes you through the historical and political terrain on which many interpretations have been made. I hope this book will be followed by more strong voices from the liberal camp that will emerge and bring forth the needed harmony in thought and beliefs. The book comes out as a powerful cry from a devote muslim who sees [...]

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The Neighborhood Project by David Sloan Wilson

December 18, 2011 / Books, Reviews

David Sloan Wilson’s “The Neighborhood Project” is his attempt to study and change his neighborhood, his town of Binghamton in New York. As an evolutionary biologist and the professor of Biological sciences and Anthropology at the Binghamton University he has been in the forefront of the concept of Group Selection or multilevel selection in evolution which argues that though genes are the means of how a organism’s design is transmitted across generations, individuals and groups are vehicles for those genes [...]

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Out of Our Minds By Sir Ken Robinson

December 2, 2011 / Books, Creativity, Education, Reviews

Sir Ken Robinson became a household name when his first TED Video went viral on the internet and social networks. His second video made the same viral impact. Reading his book was in my agenda for a while and when the completely new edition of his Best seller “Out of Our Minds” came out, it was time to feel his writing. The new edition is said to be a totally new book as he rewrote it to meet with the [...]

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Working In The Shadows – A Review

November 16, 2011 / Books, Featured, Opinions, Reviews, Society

Gabriel Thompson’s “Working In The Shadows” explores the work life that is hidden behind the glitters of our economy, but contributes to it every equal bit. As a Journalist Gabriel embarks on a one year journey to take up three separate jobs that a typical American will not be ready to take. This was his attempt to work and know first hand what it means to do some of the most hard and often minimum wage jobs in US. From [...]

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Black Swan – Review

October 31, 2011 / Books, Reviews

Black swan Theory developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a metaphor that is used to classify, unexpected, unpredicted events that have a high impact. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Book Black Swan takes you through the concept that unpredictable events that shape the history of mankind are often beyond the realm of normal observation. Though many times in the language of a stock trader he explains the impacts of events on markets, he has written the book for a general reader like [...]

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Here On Earth By Tim Flannery

October 3, 2011 / Books, Reviews

” We live in a Zoologically impoverished world, from which all of the hugest, fierest and strangest forms have recently disappeared” these were the words of Alfred Russel Wallace who had independently proposed his theory of evolution by Natural selection and prompted Darwin to publish his book “On the Origin of Species”. ‘Here on Earth’ by the leading environmentalist Tim Flannery is an excellent read taking you through some interesting facts in the evolution of life on earth (or earth itself). [...]

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The Red Market- Reviews and Thoughts

August 16, 2011 / Books, Featured, Reviews, Society

“From those who can spare to those who are in need” can be a tagline for anything that is given in the sense altruism. But when money is involved in the supply chain and the demand is ready to pay a hefty fee for getting it, the whole equation goes wrong. With brokers emerging to manage the supply chain and trying to get a share of the money that changes hands. This is the underlying story of ‘The Red Market’ [...]

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Addict Nation – Book Review and Questions

August 1, 2011 / Books, Reviews, Society

Addict Nation by Jane Velez Mitchell and Sandra Mohr is a look at America from the point of addiction, and in my opinion it is not just about america but also about every other developed and developing nation. As individuals the books calls its readers to look around and see who all are conspiring to keep us an addict. Though the book shows the naked truth there is no tone of hopelessness, but more a reality check that each one [...]

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