Early Indians - Tony Joseph

Chhaunk - Abhijit Banerjee

Cooking to save your life - Abhijit Banerjee

Jairam Ramesh’s ‘To the Brink and Back'

Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s ‘Backstage'

Rakesh Mohan’s ‘India Transformed’

C Rangarajan’s ‘Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI and Beyond’

Prof. Suresh Tendulkar and Prof. Bhavani’s ‘Understanding Reforms: Post 1991 India’ 

‘Strictly Personal’ by Daman Singh

1. Hermann Simon - Hidden Champions of the 21st Century

2. Ralph Wanger - A Zebra in Lion Country

3. Seth Klarman - Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor

4. Joel Greenblatt - ‘The Little Book That Still Beats the Market’ and ‘You Can Be a Stock Market Genius'

My first post for 2025 - it is apt that it should be a list of books that I plan to read some day :-)

A Brief History of Intelligence - Max Bennett

The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson

Slip, Stitch & Stumble

Inside The Investments Of Warren Buffet

My Life and Work

Lilliput Land - Rama Bijapurkar

The Death of the Banker

A Business History of India

How Prime Ministers Decide - Neerja Chowdhury

The Future of the Responsible Company

Wise Wealth - Rajmohan Krishnan

I have not made any new year resolution that I will write here on a consistent basis. It is hard to stick to such resolutions. But I will make an effort to write every now and then.

Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer

A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance eBook : De Blasi, Marlena

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Dead Funny: Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany : Herzog, Rudolph, Chase, Jefferson

Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss by Jai Pausch | Goodreads

The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living eBook : Pausch, Randy, Zaslow, Jeffrey

Freedom At Midnight and other books by Dominique Lapierre

Books by Ram Guha, Manu Pillai

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765 by Richard M. Eaton | Goodreads

Being the Change: In the Footsteps of the Mahatma

Cloudmoney (Lead Title): Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets

Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

Oh William!: From the author of My Name is Lucy

The Last War: How AI Will Shape India’s Final Showdown With China

एका समृद्धीचा दरवळ! |

 

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - by Charlie Mackesy

Before the Big Bang: The Origin of Our Universe from the Multiverse - by Laura Mersini-Houghton

Treacle Walker: - by Alan Garner

Where Shall We Run To? - by Alan Garner

A Call to Honour Hardcover - by Jaswant Singh

I Was a CIA Agent in India: An Analysis Paperback – by Wendell Minnick

Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation Hardcover – by Lt. Gen. Jack Jacob

Worlds Apart: Travels in War and Peace Paperback – by Gavin Young

White House Years Paperback – by Henry Kissinger

The Trial of Henry Kissinger Paperback – by Christopher Hitchens

SMASH AND GRAB:ANNEXATION OF SIKKIM by SUNANDA K. DATTARAY 

Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane Hardcover – by B. Raman

PRICE OF POWER Paperback – by Seymour Hersh

Lucknow Boy: A Memoir Hardcover –  by Vinod Mehta

Faith, Unity, Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan Hardcover – by Hein Kiessling

The Terrorist Prince: The Life and Death of Murtaza Bhutto Hardcover – by Raja Anwar

Conversations with the Crow - by Gregory Douglas

The Nation Declassified - by Vivek Prahladan

Cutting Edge PAF: A Former Air Chief's Reminiscences of a Developing Air Force - by Air Chief Marshal M Anwar Shamin

The Untold Truth Paperback – by SM LT GEN P N HOON (RETD) PVSM,AVSM

One Life is Not Enough - by K. Natwar Singh

The Meadow - by Adrian Levy

 A Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole 

LONESOME DOVE - by Larry McMurtry 

Catch-22 - by Joseph Heller

The Trees - by Percival Everett

Life is Elsewhere - by Milan Kundera

Travis McGee Novels - by John D. MacDonald

One Hundred Years of Solitude – by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House Hardcover – by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. 

Small Things Like These (LEAD) – Claire Keegan

Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography Hardcover – by Frank L Wright

 मुक्त्यारीसमारंभ - बाळाजी महादेव करवडे 

संयुक्त महाराष्ट्राचा संग्राम - इंद्रायणी सावकार

भारतीय संस्कृतीकोष - पंडित महादेवशास्त्री

महाराष्ट्राची वसाहत - वि. का. राजवाडे 

ज्ञानवृक्षाच्या पारंब्या - सुरेश मथुरे

भारतीय तत्त्वज्ञान - श्री.ग. दीक्षित 

प्राचीन भारतीय विद्यापीठे - अनंत सदाशिव आळतेकर

दिवस असे होते - वि. द. घाटे

THE ESCAPE ARTIST: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World - by Jonathan Freedland

Pathway to India's Partition (3 volumes) Hardcover – by Bimla Prasad

Bahurup Gandhi - by Anu Bandopadhyay

India as I Knew It – by Michael O'Dwyer

Early History Of India - Romila Thapar

A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar) Hampi – by Robert Sewell

State And Government In Ancient India – by A. S. Altekar

The First Spring: The Golden Age Of India – by Abraham Eraly

Listen to My Case!: When Women Approach the Courts of Tamil Nadu – by Justice K Chandru

Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion - by Jean H. Baker 

The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba - by Tushar Gandhi 

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation - by Rosemary Sullivan 

Necropolis - by Boris Pahor 

My God is a Woman - by Noor Zaheer 

The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest was Named - by John Keay

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern - by Simon Winchester

Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich Paperback – by Harald Jähner  

On Writers and Writing Paperback – by Margaret Atwood

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them - by Francine Prose 

The Commissioner For Lost Causes - by Arun Shourie

Amazon.in: Buy Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir - by Farah Bashir

The Hidden Wealth of Nations – The Scourge of Tax Havens - by Gabriel Zucman 

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World - by Tom Burgis

Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking: The Science of Indian Cooking - by Krish Ashok

The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India - by Vijay Gokhale

Disclosing the Past : An Autobiography - by Mary D. Leakey

Beyond Possible: The man and the mindset that summitted K2 in winter - by Nimsdai Purja

Winter 8000: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season - by Bernadette McDonald

Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban - by Bette Dam

1. Shades of Saffron: From Vajpayee to Modi - by Saba Naqvi

2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask - by T.R. Raghunandan

3. Sita Under The Crescent Moon - by Annie Ali Khan

4. On China - by Henry Kissinger

5. Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War - by Tanvi Madan

6. The Hundred-year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America As the Global Superpower - by Michael Pillsbury

1. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism - by Anne Applebaum

2. River Out of Eden, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True, The Blind Watchmaker - by  Richard Dawkins

3. A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon - by Jairam Ramesh

4. The Art of Living: Death - by Todd May

5. The English Teacher - R.K. Narayan

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - by Grady Hendrix

The Virtual Hindu Rashtra: Saffron Nationalism and New Media - by Rohit Chopra

Don't Push The River (It Flows By Itself) - by Barry Stevens

Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire - by Francesca Cartier Brickell

The Belt and Road Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges of a Chinese Economic Ambition - David De Cremer, Bruce McKern, Jack McGuire

The Dictator's Handbook - by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession - by Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps - by Michael Blanding

1. Shivaji Park, Dadar 28: History, Places, People - Shanta Gokhale

2. DRI & The Dons: The Untold Stories - BV Kumar

3. The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right - Ellen Fein

4. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

5. Books by Wilfred Thesiger