Manish Tully: Book Review

The Leader Who Had No title: Robin Sharma Another masterpiece by Robin Sharma. At the outset, I would like everyone from the corporate sector to read this book. A fresher, a junior, a senior,  boss and the management must read this book. I am sure this will change managements’ outlook towards its employees and vice versa. The lessons are quite simple but too dynamic and powerful.  Few pointer from this master piece: For the management: “ What will happen to the symphony if even one of its player was out of tune and less than superb at his art” For the employees: “ A restaurant is the only place I know of where you eat good stuff first and then pay the price. In work and in life in general, you need to pay the price of the success before you get all the rewards due to you.” For everyone: “Critics generally criticise you only because at some level they care about you. When they stop saying anything, its because you no longer matter to them. It’s

The Deliberate Sinner: Bhaavna Arora The name is enough to describe that this book must have something to do with physical and emotional needs of a woman. The storyline is quite simple and straightforward.. Rihana falling in love with Veer initially and married him at the time when she was in a confused state of mind about her love for Veer.  The book captures strained relationship between Rihana and Veer. A typical ‘Ekta Kapoors’ type of story. I am sure, if she reads it, she can easily make 100 episode daily soap from this one.  An average book. Simple day-to-day  story of every fifth household in India. Manish Tully

Soft Eclipse: By Jayabrato Chatterjee This is a story superficial and disturbing lifestyles of Kolkata high class. There is a story of a girl, Mohini, her birth, her childhood, adolescent, three day love affair, marriage, betrayal, mechanical sex life, NGO’s, ladies chit chat, children and finally a widow. What else you expect in a life of so called rich and influential Kolkata’s elite and high class society. This story line is pretty fast. But somehow… I felt that there are too many characters in the story… It appears that the author is trying to capture every second person he comes across. Too many people….. too many narrative about their life.  A light read.  Few lines by The Beatles stated in the book are quite interesting:    “W hen I get older loosing my hair Many years from now Will you still be sending me a Valentine Birthday greetings, a bottle of wine? If  I’d been out till quarter to three Would you lock the door? Will you still need

Burial and Sea: By Khushwant Singh ohhhhh… another short soft porn & erotic book by Mr. Singh…. There is  a story of Victor Jai Bhagwan, his daughter Bharati and sexual encounters of Victor with a Tantric god god woman…. Durgeshwari Devi.    A short book .. only 146 pages and you all need an hour to complete this one.  The story is quite simple… love, friendship, work, hate and revenge… and of course….. typical of Mr. Singh… some sessions on sex education, which to certain extent also include some copulation postures… which Durgeshwari Devi taught Victor…..while the Tiger stands guard. Interesting read about all of them and a tiger belonging to the tantric god woman… I read at internet that this book is somewhat inspired from the life of Nehru. I am not sure about the statement… but still you can enjoy this book.  Good one. Manish Tully

Lolita: by Vladimir Nabokov First edition of this book was out somewhere around 1955. This book is till considered as taboo in certain countries…. but i do not understand why…. more-so when internet is flooded with porn, and adult movies.  I understand that this book is still considered as one of the best read in the Reading Fraternity.  The book revolved around Lolita and a literature professor Humbert Humbert: a sexual obsession of the professor for Dolores Haze. The professor remained obsessed with nymphets. This book … can be categorised as ‘erotic reading’…. definitely in 1950—-1960…., do not compare it with cheap erotic books and stories published by few new writers in the town… it was and will always remain a classic.  A good read. My rating is 7/10. Manish Tully

Mritunjaya- story of Karna and Mahabharata: By Shivaji Sawant This book was first published in the year 1974. Majority of Indians, in their childhood, must have either read or heard stories of Mahabharata. Often, our elders tell story about Mahabharata, as it is explained from the perspective of either Lord Krishna or as envisaged by, so called follower of truth and righteous, the Pandavas. Shivaji Sawant, wrote this upanyas about Mahabharata as seen and experienced by Karna… the Danveer Karna…. the son of the Surya Dev (Sun God). I was initially planning to buy an English version of this book…….. but somehow ended up with a Hindi version….. I was bit anxious about my decision; but I must say, I indeed made a right decision. I must say, if you know how to read Hindi (no professional knowledge of Hindi is necessary), please buy a Hindi version only. Few words are quite typical to understand, but given the background you can easily understand the context and meani