Outliers – Book Review
My first book by Malcolm Gladwell, and I am now tempted to read up all his works. There are two ways of telling every story, and similarly there are two ways of justifying a person’s behavior. One – the person alone is responsible for everything happening in his/her life, the other reason – external factors […]
Lady, You’re Not a Man! – Book Review
I always believed the best thing that can be gifted is a book, and I have this habit of gifting my close friends with books I believe they should be reading. My friends accuse that I gift them books that I wish to read. I probably prove this allegation by borrowing the book immediately after […]
Freakonomics – Book Review
The first book that I have completed reading this year, is the highly engrossing “Freakanomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The authors – one a reluctant economist, and the other a journalist, right in the beginning dodge accountability with the disclaimer that the book is not a scholarly work. To their credit, […]
BANKERUPT – Book Review
March 2008. Placement time for seniors in Campus. Someone in my operations team was reading a blue coloured book with some “banker” written on it. I initially dismissed it off as some book on finance and did not find much interest. During one of the frequent late nights, sitting alone in the operations tent I […]
A Bank for the Buck – Book Review
About three months back, in January, I was scheduled to interview with the CEO of a large Private bank as part of a competition, and I thought it only to be prudent to learn about the banking Industry. In my google for the same I stumbled across Tamal Bandopadhyay’s book – Bank for the Buck. […]