Category: Books

Category: Books

Writing Biases
May 11, 2023 Aglaia Interactive, Books, India, Literature Sunil

By Sunil Kumar A challenge that writers face is the limitations of their own senses in examining their own biases. Our perceptions and experiences are shaped by our upbringing, education, and social conditioning, and it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that our perceptions are objective and universal. To overcome these limitations,

Read More
What if you had been Alexander The Great?
April 1, 2023 Books, History, India Sunil

By Sunil Kumar(From My Quora answers)   Not bothered to invade India. Persia would have been enough. As it is I would have been thought of as a living God by my followers and myself, so I would have sat back, consolidated my gains for some time. Regrouped after some years and launched an invasion

Read More
Do Indian texts like the Vedas mention the ancient Persians and Iranians at all?
December 27, 2022 Books, History, India, Literature Sunil

By Sunil Kumar(Originally answered on Quora)   Giving an answer to your question would be reaching far back into hoary antiquity, when the concept of modern nation-states was not there, and the world was in a fluid civilizational construct. For example, the history of what is now China would be limited to a very small

Read More
My Review of ‘The Maverick Maharaja’
August 31, 2022 Books, India, Non Fiction, Poetry, Sanskrit Sunil

By Sunil Kumar न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते । तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥ ४-३८॥ (Bhagavad Gita) There certainly is no purifier in the world like knowledge. Who is himself/herself perfected in Yoga(divinity) finds it due course of time. The Upanishads and Indian philosophy often refer to the lower Apara Vidya(the finite world of

Read More
My Review of ‘The Empress of Indraprastha: Entering Kuruvansh’
August 31, 2022 Books, History, India, Literature, Poetry, Sanskrit, Soviet Union, Spirituality Sunil

By Sunil Kumar “Revenge is not always better, but neither is forgiveness, learn to know them both son, so there is no problem”” – Draupadi in the Mahabharata, quoting Prahlada The epics are the creative fount of the Indian mindscape, a fact that is so obvious that repeating it sounds cliched. Scholars throughout the world

Read More
Magicians of Mazda – Book Review
August 9, 2022 Books, History, India, Information Technology, Punjab, Sanskrit, Spirituality Sunil

By Sunil Kumar “Silence is worse, all truths that are kept silent become poisonous” – Friedrich Nietzche , Thus Spake Zarathustra O Bhagavan, Oh Khodai! Reading ‘The Magicians of Mazda’ by Ashwin Sanghi is a rip-roaring deep dive into history and many truths that have been long buried by the sands of time. The ‘Bawa'(Parsi)

Read More
Birsa Munda Book Review
July 29, 2022 Books, History, India, Jalianwala Bagh, Literature, Non Fiction Sunil

By Sunil Kumar “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter” – Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe Johar, Namaskar- We have heard these words on the national forum from our first tribal president, who now resides in Rashtrapati Bhavan which merely a century ago was the Viceroy’s

Read More
Pahadi- Book Review
July 29, 2022 Books, Geography, India Sunil

By Sunil Kumar My book review- ‘Pahadi’ Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing – Barry Finlay By far the thinnest book I have received thus far from Indica Books, ‘Pahadi’ was nevertheless an entertaining read. Written by a 16-year old Arjun Ganesh, the book offers a short and succinct glimpse

Read More
Book Review- Maxims of Mahabharata
June 12, 2022 Books, History, India, Literature, Non Fiction, Poetry Sunil

By Sunil Kumar My review: A slim, curated volume of maxims gleaned from different parvas of the Mahabharata, the book is another glimpse into the vast canvas of what is arguably ancient India’s greatest epic. Indeed it would not be hyperbole to repeat what is mentioned within the epic itself- loosely translated as ‘What is

Read More
Book Review of ‘Veer Savarkar- The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition’
May 5, 2022 Books, Britain, Cinema, Geopolitics, History, India, Information Technology, Literature, Non Fiction, Poetry, Punjab, Sanskrit Sunil

By Sunil Kumar My review of the book ‘Veer Savarkar- The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition’ by Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit. अथ चेतत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं संग्रामं न करिष्यसि | तत: स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि || 33|| – Bhagavad Gita-2.33 If, however, you refuse to fight this righteous war, abandoning your social duty and

Read More