Happy Reading to you All !!

Last weekend I was in Dallas attending a literature festival, where I also had a short session titled “What Should Be the Next Book to Read?” The crux of my talk was simple: people who read regularly rarely ask this question because the next book usually finds them. Most often, this question comes from people who don’t have a reading habit yet. And I always … Continue reading Happy Reading to you All !!

Attention deficit, doom scrolling, reading and walking

Attention deficit and doom scrolling are two problems we face. It slowly grows in us to a point where we feel a kind of numbness that never existed. I recently watched a DW documentary called “How the internet warps our emotions”. A must watch for us all. You can search for it on YouTube. Recently I also heard Carl Newport talk about something interesting, He … Continue reading Attention deficit, doom scrolling, reading and walking

Happiness of being used

In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep idea in a world where time and again people feel … Continue reading Happiness of being used

A look at books in 2024 and for 2025

As always this year I took a note of the books I have consumed. I say consumed because books are not just read anymore, they are listened to as well. It came to 36. 16 read and 20 listened. As the year is ending, the last book of the year is Hope for Cynics – The surprising science of human goodness by Jamil Zaki and … Continue reading A look at books in 2024 and for 2025

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Book Positive

How is technology and our online interactions impacting us? The even more important question is “how is it impacting the younger people”. I can attest that it has significantly impacted me at this age and when I took a 90 day detox it made me realize how much my online persona had eaten into the actual me and in a way altered me. I agree … Continue reading The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt | Book Positive

The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

Sharon McMahon‘s ’The Small and the Mighty‘ tells you the story of 12 Americans who changed the course of history. School Teachers, a telephone operator, a poet on a train, a young boy detained in a Japanese concentration camp (We still call it internment camp when it was really a form of incarceration) and others. Common people like many of us and that reminds me … Continue reading The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon