Manoj's Review on Books

My funda of life is not meant to be a gyaan rather an expression of how I learnt to deal with life. I would suggest to quickly read all the points once and then dwell over each point, am sure you will find depth in each of them.  Listing out: 1. Never complain. You don't have that privilege. Look at ways to overcome the hurdles.  2. If you are high on energy then you are living. Life is meant to be lived with full enthusiasm.  3. Keep expanding your circle of friends or acquaintance. Never choose to be confined in a small circle.  4. Consciously choose the hard path. It can be as low key as taking stairs instead of lift. It brings a shift in mindset.  5. Never settle in a comfort zone. Life is meant to live out of it.  6. Choose a healthy lifestyle and aim for supreme fitness.  7. It's alright to fail or be humiliated or be bad in something. Don't live by societies standard of success or failure. Choose to live on your own terms.  8. You are bound...

  Bachelors in electrical engineering, a decent job in HP and life in a vibrant metropolitan city like Pune, these are sufficient enticing factors for any young adult to pick the well-defined regular path of     However, at the age of 23 Gaur Gopal Das had a different inner calling and choose to become a monk. Since then he has practiced celibacy and over the last 2.5 decades travelled across the globe sharing his wisdom to professionals in Google, Salesforce, EY, CII and UK Parliament to name a few. The sheer length and breadth of his travel is enough to provide a solid testimony on the value of his discourse.   Coming to the book, the narrative is woven around a married couple who are having an extraordinary life of wealth and progress which indicates happiness on the surface but deep within are struggling to stay together. How did a pure love affair that gravitated towards marriage and wealth have so much of shallowness deep within? Can fulfillment be acquired...

  Once I had finished reading this book, one aspect was clear which points to a misleading title of the book. It’s a biography of Hans Rosling and his experience in identifying causes of epidemic in a few African countries, I believe that a better title could have been given. Hans Rosling is a medical practitioner who chose to serve on his own will during the early 80's in Mozambique, a downtrodden poverty stuck African country. The challenges are daunting ranging from uneducated nurses, dearth of qualified doctors, lack of hospitals, minimum or no allocation of funds and on top of all an epidemic that threatened his presence in the African nation. Given the size of challenge and a never-ending queue of patients, Hans understood that the best approach has to be minimal treatment for all rather than the best possible one for a few, considering the time and resource constraints, we have to agree that he was right. He underwent immense moral dilemmas when treating his patients and...