Book Review of ‘Humankind: A Hopeful History’, by Rutger Bregman Pages: 496 Review by Anil Saxena Recently, I came across a very thought-provoking book called Humankind: A Hopeful History. It reopens an age-old debate on the basic nature of humankind: are we basically mean and ugly, or decent and cooperative? Two Schools of Thought There […]
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Book Review of ‘The Infidel and the Professor’, by Dennis C. Rasmussen Review by Anil Saxena “A wonderful read about two of the finest minds of 18th-century England who changed the course of philosophy and economics of our times.” This 336-page book explores the extraordinary friendship between two Scottish intellectual giants—David Hume (1711–1776) and Adam
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Book Review of ‘Kai Chand The Sar-e Asman’ (कई चाँद थे सर-ए-आसमान) by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (शम्सुर रहमान फारुकी) Review by Anil Saxena “There are books that are written to tell a story, and then there are books that recreate a world. This is the latter.” Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Kai Chand The Sar-e Asman (748
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Book Review of ‘Culture – A New World History’, by Martin Puchner Pages: 476 | Buy Book Book Review by Anil Saxena I listened to the audiobook version of Culture: A New World History by Martin Puchner and liked it a lot. The author deals with the issues of culture, and without defining it rigidly,
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Book Review of ‘My Name Is Red’, by Orhan Pamuk. 544 Pages | Buy Book Review by Anil Saxena A Masterpiece of Psychological Mystery and Artistic Debate This remarkable 688-page psychological murder mystery set in medieval Turkey, penned by the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk, is a compelling page-turner in the “whodunit” thriller
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