// off-keyboard/reading.log — books & courses worth remembering
// 35 entries · sorted by recency
📖2025-09
A Journey of Dreams
by Ram S. Verma— raw, personal account of grinding through failure toward success.
📖2024-05
Swami Akhandananda as We Saw Him
by Swami Chetanananda (ed.)— reminiscences from Ramakrishna Math, quietly moving.
📖2023-10
Khelando (Part 1 and 2)
by Mahesh Yagnik— Gujarati sports writing at its best — re-read this 2-3 times.
📖2023-04
Kamthan
by Ashwini Bhatt— gripping Gujarati thriller, couldn't put it down.
📖2022-07
Tatvamasi
by Dhruv Bhatt— Narmada valley, tribal life, and a search for meaning.
📖2022-07
Chalo Goa Jova
by Tarak Mehta— light Gujarati travel humor.
📖2021-06
Star Struck: Confessions of a TV Executive
by Peter Mukerjea— insider look at Indian television, messier than expected.
📖2021-01
Node.js in Action
by Alex Young— old-school but the fundamentals still land.
📖2021-01
Wings of Fire
by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam— Kalam's journey from Rameswaram to the missile program.
📖2020-09
Simply Fly
by Captain G.R. Gopinath— how Air Deccan brought flying to the middle class.
📖2020-09
Mahesh Yagnikni 26 Vartao
by Mahesh Yagnik— 26 short stories, Gujarati storytelling at its warmest.
📖2020-09
Army Oh Army
by O.P. Bahukhandi— army life recounted with a lot of humor.
📖2020-09
Tarak Mehtana Tapudano Tarkhat
by Tarak Mehta— more of Tarak Mehta's Gujarati humor essays.
📖2020-09
Tachali Angalino Tachako
by Tarak Mehta— quick Gujarati comic sketches.
📖2020-09
Mamaa Bhanaane Mamo Banavyo
by Tarak Mehta— classic Tarak Mehta humor writing.
📖2020-09
Chanakya Niti
by Chanakya (trans. Manshukhlal Savaliya)— ancient pragmatism, still oddly relevant.
📖2020-05
The Disciples of Sri Ramakrishna
by Swami Gambhirananda— biographical sketches of Ramakrishna's direct disciples.
📖2020-01
The Phoenix Project
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford— the DevOps novel everyone recommends, for good reason.
📖2019-12
Sarasvatichandra (Part 1)
by Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi— the Gujarati classic, dense but rewarding.
📖2019-12
Manavi ni Bhavai
by Pannalal Patel— harsh, beautiful portrait of rural Gujarat.
📖2019-12
Baaz
by Anuja Chauhan— air force fighter pilots and old-school romance.
📖2019-12
Dhandha: How Gujaratis Do Business
by Shobha Bondre— how Gujarati business families actually think.
📖2019-12
I Bought the Monk's Ferrari
by Ravi Subramanian— Subramanian's banking-world debut novel.
📖2019-12
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
by Rashmi Bansal— IIM-A grads who chose entrepreneurship over placements.
📖2019-12
Devil in Pinstripes
by Ravi Subramanian— corporate banking drama, page-turner.
📖2019-11
The Bankster
by Ravi Subramanian— banking thriller with a conspiracy twist.
📖2019-11
If God Was a Banker
by Ravi Subramanian— Subramanian's take on ethics in banking.
📖2019-11
Bankerupt
by Ravi Subramanian— another fast banking thriller.
📖2019-11
The Incredible Banker
by Ravi Subramanian— got hooked on Subramanian's banking thrillers with this one.
📖2019-11
An Indian Spy in Pakistan
by Mohanlal Bhaskar— real-life espionage account, stranger than fiction.
📖2019-05
Goodbye Office
by Eugene Mironichev, Olga Solomatina & Jennifer Sunseri— remote work playbook, years ahead of the pandemic.
📖2018-09
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
by Duncan Clark— how Alibaba was built, told well.
📖2017-10
Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown— cryptography thriller, dated but fun.
📖2017-05
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Paramahansa Yogananda— the spiritual classic everyone eventually reads.
📖2015-10
The Immortals of Meluha
by Amish— the book that got me into Indian mythological fiction.