Book Review of ‘Team of Rivals – The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln’, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1,305 pages) Review by Anil Saxena Abraham Lincoln: Establishing the Grammar of Constitutional Democracy History is full of heroes, leaders, philosophers, spiritualists, emperors, and warriors who conquered nations and were anointed as conquerors of the world. There are
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Book Review of ‘Silent House’, by Orhan Pamuk Pages: 352 Review by Anil Saxena A Lonely House, a Lonely Woman Silent House by Orhan Pamuk is a saga of a Turkish family, beginning with the life of a 90-plus-year-old widow, Fatima, living alone and unloved in a lonely house outside Istanbul, in a rustic setting.
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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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