Book-reviews

• 15 Feb 2019

  Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders, 636 AD To 1206 AD by Sita Ram Goel - Review by Abhishek Desikan

  A question which has long troubled me about Indian history is how such a great civilization could not resist against the...
• 10 Feb 2019

  The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan Das - Review by Abhishek Desikan

  Dharma is a word which has been used for millennia in the Indian subcontinent and later throughout the world, but it is ...
• 18 Jan 2019

  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - Review by Abhishek Desikan

  I am a fan of history, and one thing I can convincingly say about historical books is how difficult it is to weave them ...
• 04 Dec 2018

  Aavarana : The Veil by S.L.Bhyrappa - Review by Abhishek Desikan

  History is a fascinating subject if explained in the right way. Bringing out historical events in a way one can relate t...
• 20 Oct 2018

  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel - Review by Abhishek Desikan

  Colonization of the world by European superpowers is something most people are familiar with. But it’s not often clear w...
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