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Finished reading this book.   Author explains what went wrong with capitalism in US and other developed Europeans countries. U.S debt, U.S fiscal deficit as a % of GDP has been increasing continuously because of near zero interest rates and virtually free money. US Fed reserve created billions of dollars & later trillions of dollars of easy money, by buying all kinds of bonds & releasing money into the system. Bailouts by US govt. didn’t allow weak companies to go bankrupt. E

Finished reading these books   Ram   Story starts with the war between Dashrath and Raavan in Karachapa, a trading town. Dashrath loses the war badly and Ram was born on the same day. In his life time, this was Dashrath’s first defeat. This makes everyone think that Ram’s birth is a bad omen. Ram’s life started on a bad note thus. However, this didn’t make him stray away from the dharmic path.   Book contains very good discussions between Ram and his Guru Brahmarishi Vashisht

Finished reading this book   Author provides in depth view of boom and bust cycles in American stock markets during 1970-2003, covers how euphoria is built up in certain sectors and trap all clad of investors. Book talks about the behavior of retail investors, institutional investors, mutual fund managers, insurance companies, endowment funds, 401(k) investments / investors’ during the bear and bull markets and bubble phases of the US markets. It’s interesting to study invest

Finished reading this book   I have heard a number of sub-stories of Mahabharata and Ramayana from my grandmother and watched few movies based on these epics. These stories were fascinating but learnings from these stories and movies were in bits and pieces. The only thing I needed was putting it all together, in a simple, regular story book like this one. This book does just that. C. Rajagopalachari, the learned man that he was, has done a commendable job in putting this com

Finished reading this book   This is the biography of 19th century oil baron, John D Rockefeller Sr, who was the founder of Standard Oil. Many of the today's oil exploration, refinery & distribution companies were once subsidiaries of Standard Oil. Exon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell,   Chevron, British Petroleum etc. were all subsidiaries of Standard Oil.   Rockefeller had a trouble childhood because of his father who was a vagabond, bigamist and a con medical practitioner. Rockef

Finished reading this book   The author, Yuval Noah Harari’s first book Sapiens  was good. I find the second book Homo Deus  not so interesting, monotonous and repetitive. He talks about the possibilities of how the future of mankind may look like and how humans might evolve to super humans.   Author didn’t delve deeply into any concept. It was kind of theoretical superficial knowledge. And his knowledge about certain aspects of humans such as consciousness, soul etc. seems t

Finished reading this book.   Book explains the origin of Arunachala (red hill) in Tiruvannamalai and the significance of Arunachala in accordance with Skanda Purana. Book also explains the significance of Pradakshina around Arunachala.   In ancient days, a fight arose between Brahma and Vishnu, who were both born from a part of Shiva. Then, Shiva manifested himself in the form of a column of effulgence in order to remove their delusion. Upon their further request, Shiva in t

Finished reading this book. Author served as Indian high commissioner to Pakistan from 2017 to 2020. This book is a product of in-depth research by the author on India-Pakistan relations from the view of a diplomat based on his discussions & interactions with PMs, HMs, FMs, foreign and past diplomats and his own study. For people who didn't live during the partition years and in post-independence years, who are wondering why India and Pakistan are still fighting for Kashmir a