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The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
“The School of Life” by Alain de Botton is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of...
Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick Book by Wendy Wood
If you are stuck in a rut of unproductive habits and your willpower fails you, Wendy Wood's "Good Habits, Bad Habits" offers a refreshing perspective. Wood, a leading researcher in habit formation, argues that willpower is a losing battle. Instead, the key to ...
Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer
"Your Erroneous Zones" is a book that serves as a positive and practical guide to breaking free from the trap of negative thinking and enjoying life to the fullest. If you often feel guilty and find yourself falling into the same old self-destructive patterns,...
Ayiti by Roxane Gay
Social commentator and writer Roxane Gay’s debut collection of short stories and other pieces of writing, Ayiti is an evocative read about the experiences of the Haitian diaspora. Gay is perhaps most famous for her 2014 book, Bad Feminist. A much-awarded autho...
Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov
The book, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins, documents–for the first time ever–legendary chess player Garry Kasparov’s defeat by the supercomputer, Deep Blue. Kasparov analyses his 1997 defeat and goes into detail about...
Destination Moon by Hergé
This is one of the perennial favourites in the The Adventures of Tintin comic series. The plot tells of young reporter Tintin and his friend Captain Haddock who receive an invitation from Professor Calculus to come to Syldavia, where Calculus is working on a t...
Books That Changed History by James Naughtie
The world's most influential books in 'Books That Changed History,' an encyclopedia spanning from 3000 BCE to the present day. Explore the evolution of human knowledge through chronological chapters, showcasing iconic works such as the Mahabharata and Shakespe...
Sapiens : a graphic history vol 1 by Yuval Noah Harari
Explore the rich tapestry of human history in the first volume of Yuval Noah Harari's graphic adaptation of "Sapiens." Through stunning full-color illustrations and accessible text, Harari delves into the origins of humanity, examining our evolution and the co...
Sapiens : A graphic history vol 2 by Yuval Noah Harari
This second volume of "Sapiens: A Graphic History" dives into the Agricultural Revolution, a pivotal moment in human history. From the pursuit of productivity to the rise of empires, it explores how humanity became ensnared by the trappings of civilization. Th...
Naturalist Ruddy by Rohan Chakravarty
Are you 'Ruddy' for adventure? In the forests of central India, where teak meets sal and plateaus meet hills, natural history meets detective fiction in an inquisitive Ruddy Mongoose's investigations. Join Naturalist Ruddy as he unearths some of nature's most...
Intelligence The Creative Response to Now by Osho
Osho's "Intelligence" challenges the notion that intellect is the key to promoting intelligence. He argues that intellect is logical, while intelligence is paradoxical. Rather than dissecting things, intelligence puts them together to understand the whole. By ...
Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide
Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide, published by DK, is your guide to this most mysterious part of the natural world, unveiling the beauty and scientific complexity of the world's oceans. From immense shoals of barracuda to forests of giant kelp, discover the ...
Sustainable Sustainability By Rajeev Peshawaria
Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith propagated profit maximization as the incentive for businesses to create goods and services that society needs. He argued that free-market competition would ensure consumers get the best quality product at the cheapest p...
Flask Web Development: Developing Web Applications with Python by Miguel Grinberg
The full potential of Flask, the Python-based microframework, with this hands-on guide. Authored by Miguel Grinberg, you'll develop a complete social blogging application step-by-step, learning Flask's core functionality along the way. Here's what you'll gain:...
Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle by Nathan W. Pyle
The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections, Nathan W. Pyle’s guided journal takes a fresh, self-reflective look at the behavior that makes us human. Strange Planet: Exist...
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
Summary "50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know" is a structured exploration of foundational physics concepts, divided into fifty concise chapters. Each chapter tackles a fundamental physics idea, making the subject accessible and engaging for readers witho...
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Dubbed the world’s bestselling mysteries, this book has sold 100 million copies worldwide. The novel has been listed as the sixth best-selling title (any language, including reference works). Agatha Christie has described it as the most difficult of her books ...
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Perhaps one of the most famous mysteries by Agatha Christie, this book has at its centre her pompously eccentric yet charming Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. The original book came out in 1934, and its latest movie adaptation came out in 2017, starring the ...
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The second novel by Hernan Diaz, which came out in 2022, won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the following year. The book was also longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction in 2022. Written in a metafictional style, the book de...
The Bird Atlas: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Birdlife by Barbara Taylor
A finely illustrated catalogue--complete with authoritative descriptions, detailed pictorial maps, and color photographs--of more than three hundred species of birds, organized by continent, is packed with information on characteristics, habitat, and evolution...
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Active Samaaj
Chapter 2: Justice and Governance
Preface
Many writers and thinkers periodically bring out an anthology of their writing over the years. It allows people to see their evolving point of view with more clarity. I have chosen to do the same and beg the indulgence of the reader. This book is a compilatio...
Acknowledgements
Any author has many people to be grateful to for their book’s existence. In this case, if the list was comprehensively created, it might be as long as the book! After all, most interactions with members of Samaaj, Sarkaar, and Bazaar have furthered my understa...
Introduction
2022 marks exactly 30 years since I started my formal journey in civic engagement. Like many journeys in the civic space, mine began with an external catalyst too. I had lost dear friends to a horrendous car accident on the Bangalore-Chennai highway, which too...
Many Questions for the Dinner Table
This article was first published by The Hindu in July 2007 How do we produce food? How do we distribute it? And how do we consume it? These are questions that are increasingly understood to be at the core of sustainable economies. And how we regard food, t...
New Indignation, New Alignment
This article was first published by Bangalore Bias in March 2015 Sometimes, it seems as though much of the world is trying to crowd into Bangalore. Hold that thought. At almost seven million, our population in this city is already more than the population of ...
Want to Make a Difference? Then initiate it.
This article was first published by Bangalore Bias in March 2015 Good governance is a term that has been used quite liberally in the past couple of decades, both internationally and in India. Even if we do not know its exact definition, we all know what we me...
The End of Secession: Why the elite withdrawal from public services is coming to an end
This article was first published by The Times of India in November 2017 With the approaching winter the air quality in many Indian cities, especially in Delhi, becomes a public health hazard. Something so fundamental as breathing easy can no longer be taken f...
Want to Empower Women? Start thinking about how to help young men.
This article was first published by India Development Review in December 2017 Every day, we hear of horrible atrocities that have taken place against girls and women in India. This is despite the fact that as a country, we can boast of having some of the most...
The Impact of Samaaj on the Work of Sarkaar and Bazaar
An excerpt from the speech addressing the eGovernments Foundation in July 2019. Since the past 25 years, I've been deeply involved in the civil society sector of India, which is very thriving and diverse. From listening to people, especially at the grassroots...
The World After Covid-19: Unless we are alert, the pandemic could become the last nail in individualism's coffin
This article was first published by The Times of India in April 2020 For centuries, individualism or the notion that every human individual has intrinsic value has underlined ideas about societal organisation, the economy, and justice. Recently, however, t...
Daan Utsav: Investing for a better 'Samaaj'
This article was first published by Bloomberg Quint in October 2020 From the beginning of October and through the end of December, our minds are more attuned to giving and sharing. The giving season starts with Gandhi’s birthday and goes on well past Chris...
Stewards, not Bystanders: Civil society creates new oppurtunity to co-design cities
This article was first published by Hindustan Times in December 2020. This year, I have been from Bengaluru to Kabini and back several times. Every time I return from the forest and the rural countryside, my eyes and senses hit refresh, and I see my home c...