Manoj's Review on Books

A beautiful and bushy mid sized tree stood pleasantly a few yards away from my residence. It was home to a lone aves family that designed an intricate web of twigs so that they can rest and procreate at will. The nest provides safe haven to augment the members of their family, a cocoon in which birds can lay their eggs, hatch them, nurture the hatchlings and teach the fledglings to fly. Every morning, the pair composes a rhythmic tune, letting the neighbours know that they are happy and high. The tree showcased itself to be a steady host as well, giving the birds it's shelter during sunshine and rain while the morning musicals proved to be the premium paid by the birds for the services offered by the tree. The harmonious relationship between the two continued for a little over six months before disaster struck.  The withered leaves spread in circular fashion around the trunk of tree, a misaligned rangoli that changes shape everyday due to layers of abandoned falcate that was once a...

4000 weeks spells out the approximate lifespan of human beings on earth, it leads to an important constraint that needs to be highlighted, it's the finitude of life. Having said that Oliver Burkeman hasn't scripted a bunch of productive hacks and methods to organize our tasks, by implementing the Eisenhower matrix. On the contrary, in a life bound by finitude, will it be considered wise to spend the currency of time filled with preconceived notions, which is exactly the question Oliver provokes us to explore.    Pre-modern or maybe even prehistoric humans weren’t troubled by such thoughts for whom life presented a relatively insignificant prelude for an eternity in heaven as German sociologist Hartmut Rosa points out. While on the other end of the spectrum we have modern humans who are driving themselves to be pathologically productive, at least a handful of them. Consider the case of Danielle Steel who has authored 190+ books by 2021, delivering at the rate of 7 books a year ...