1. India Unbound (By Gurcharan Das) BECAUSE this is the most lucid and crisp economic history of independent India . And it's not at all dull like all the other economic history books are. It contains the elements of Indian economy carefully grafted with a story. And at the end, it advocates a free market economy and you would find it difficult to resist.
2. Himalayan Blunder (By John Dalvi) BECAUSE this is the inner account of the war from the people who fought it and those who had seen it all through their own eye. People who went to the other side and came back. What really happened out there? Why we had already lost the war before it began? It has all the answers to the historic 1962 Indo-China war.
3.Five people you meet in heaven (By Mitch Albom ) BECAUSE probably it might inspire you to be good while you are alive! We live in a world too involved in the instant gratifications and do not think beyond the horizon of life. We must think beyond and that would surely shape the way we act towards others.
4. Freakonomics BECAUSE in what ever amount we may hate the subject of economics but every damn thing in this world is based on that and the principle of supply and demand is ubiquitous. It is freakishly amazing how simple economic concepts explain a lot of complex things we do not understand.And this was the first time when I liked a book on economics!
5. India's struggle for independence (By Bipan Chandra) BECAUSE there is nothing like this gem on modern Indian history. You will find many history books but this one is unique as this has got a soul of its own. The way he has described everything takes you right in the middle of the battlefield and you feel like you are actually in that era. A must read for every Indian. And RIP the author!
6. Foutainhead (By Ayn Rand ) BECAUSE it's Epic, absolute epic. It's totally unbelievable that an author in the 1940s can write such a legendary classic in such an outstanding language which even the authors of today cannot perhaps manage. The characters created by the author would live with you forever and there are so many deeper connotations attached to every gesture that you cannot help but fell in love with it.
7. India after Gandhi (By Ramchandra Guha) BECAUSE it's the best account of post-independent India. Have you always wanted a single source of information and analysis to understand what happened to India after it attained independence. This is what you look for.
8. Administrative Thinkers (By Prassad and Prassad) BECAUSE every Public Administration student owes it big time! It is a great collection of legendary administrative and management thinkers and their fabulous theories whose application are ubiquitous even though we might not notice it every time. Administration and management are universal phenomenons that every one should understand and hence this book!
9. My Feudal Lord (By Tehmina Durrani) BECAUSE every man must read this side of the story! Born and bought up in a patriarchal neighborhood, most men have this dominating attitude towards every woman they know and every woman they come across. But you are not aware of what they see, what they go through. And ergo you must read this book!
10. The Alchemist (By Paulo Coelho) We all today are wandering here and there to look for something. We don't know what this something is. But we are very sure, more than sure that it is grand. This grand would seperate us from the rest of the world and hence we must find it and own it. But what if you already have it somewhere near you? You don't have to run here and there! A mesmerizing story that answers this question!
2. Himalayan Blunder (By John Dalvi) BECAUSE this is the inner account of the war from the people who fought it and those who had seen it all through their own eye. People who went to the other side and came back. What really happened out there? Why we had already lost the war before it began? It has all the answers to the historic 1962 Indo-China war.
3.Five people you meet in heaven (By Mitch Albom ) BECAUSE probably it might inspire you to be good while you are alive! We live in a world too involved in the instant gratifications and do not think beyond the horizon of life. We must think beyond and that would surely shape the way we act towards others.
4. Freakonomics BECAUSE in what ever amount we may hate the subject of economics but every damn thing in this world is based on that and the principle of supply and demand is ubiquitous. It is freakishly amazing how simple economic concepts explain a lot of complex things we do not understand.And this was the first time when I liked a book on economics!
5. India's struggle for independence (By Bipan Chandra) BECAUSE there is nothing like this gem on modern Indian history. You will find many history books but this one is unique as this has got a soul of its own. The way he has described everything takes you right in the middle of the battlefield and you feel like you are actually in that era. A must read for every Indian. And RIP the author!
6. Foutainhead (By Ayn Rand ) BECAUSE it's Epic, absolute epic. It's totally unbelievable that an author in the 1940s can write such a legendary classic in such an outstanding language which even the authors of today cannot perhaps manage. The characters created by the author would live with you forever and there are so many deeper connotations attached to every gesture that you cannot help but fell in love with it.
7. India after Gandhi (By Ramchandra Guha) BECAUSE it's the best account of post-independent India. Have you always wanted a single source of information and analysis to understand what happened to India after it attained independence. This is what you look for.
8. Administrative Thinkers (By Prassad and Prassad) BECAUSE every Public Administration student owes it big time! It is a great collection of legendary administrative and management thinkers and their fabulous theories whose application are ubiquitous even though we might not notice it every time. Administration and management are universal phenomenons that every one should understand and hence this book!
9. My Feudal Lord (By Tehmina Durrani) BECAUSE every man must read this side of the story! Born and bought up in a patriarchal neighborhood, most men have this dominating attitude towards every woman they know and every woman they come across. But you are not aware of what they see, what they go through. And ergo you must read this book!
10. The Alchemist (By Paulo Coelho) We all today are wandering here and there to look for something. We don't know what this something is. But we are very sure, more than sure that it is grand. This grand would seperate us from the rest of the world and hence we must find it and own it. But what if you already have it somewhere near you? You don't have to run here and there! A mesmerizing story that answers this question!
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