Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review – How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Tarun Rattan

  How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan 5 of 5 stars The word “intelligence” comes from Latin terms intelligentia and intellligere meaning “to comprehend” or “to perceive”. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus was used to translate the Greek … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Age of AI by, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

  The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger5 of 5 stars   I’ve been long searching for a book which could explain the philosophical foundations upon which the edifice of today’s AI frameworks has been built … Continue reading →

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Book Review – The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on September 14, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

  The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson5 of 5 stars The book exposes the dangers of climate change and shows how bleak our future looks. Just as we are all subject to some perceptual errors due to … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Snow by Orhan Pamuk

Posted on August 10, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

A great story of an elusive love and heartbreak against a political backdrop in modern day Turkey by the great story teller. An exiled poet Ka returns back to his hometown of Kars to investigate the suicide by young girls … Continue reading →

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Book Review – India That is Bharat by J. Sai Deepak

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Tarun Rattan

India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J. Sai Deepak5 of 5 stars   The colonial studies with Indian perspective are strangely almost non-existent. In spite of sub-continent going through tragic colonial experiences first with Muslim invaders and then … Continue reading →

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Book Review – August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Tarun Rattan

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn My rating: 5 of 5 starsRussia’s disastrous performance in World War I was one of the primary causes of the Russian October Revolution of 1917, which swept aside the Romanov dynasty and installed a Bolshevik … Continue reading →

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Book Review – The Human Situation by Aldous Huxley

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Tarun Rattan

The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959 by Aldous HuxleyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a pertinent book in the current chaotic world as it deep dives into the human condition and unravels the social, economic and … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Tarun Rattan

  Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson5 of 5 stars   The whole world is enamoured by Elon Musk’s unfiltered personality, unbounded energy, and his grand vision of making us humans into a multiplanetary race. But what is it that differentiates … Continue reading →

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Book Review – How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Tarun Rattan

  How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini5 of 5 stars   View all my reviews The world is shrinking fast and most of us are in the throes of multiculturalism interacting with neighbours, work … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Take Charge of You: How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career by David Novak

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Tarun Rattan

  Take Charge of You: How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Careerby David Novak My rating: 5 of 5 stars This self coaching manual has been written by David Novak, co founder of YUM brands and performance coach Jason … Continue reading →

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