Thatched House

I bought three books recently. Two from the internet, and one from attending the program where the book was launched. It is too early to write Review of the books as I have not read them completely, but this is only an introduction. 1. Indian Economy (For Civil Services Examinations) by Ramesh Singh. This was recommended by a friend who is appearing Civil Services Examination. I have sounded to him my interested to learn some basic economics and he recommended this. I have just read a couple of Chapters. The language is very simple and the concepts are made easy to understand, good for someone who is not from Economics background. In an economy, there are certain 'public goods' or 'social goods' which should not be 'marketized'. These are Education, healthcare, sanitation, water, nutrition, etc. Another interesting concept is that the Indian Economy jumped from Agrarian Economy to Service Economy, skipping the stage of Industrial Economy which was exp...

N.T. Wright: The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is This book by N.T Wright (New Testament Scholar and professor at St. Andrews) is better than I expected. This is not a proper book review by the way. And I’ve read it just once. It is a small book packed with valuable insights on the person of Jesus. Jesus? Haven’t we known all there is to know of him? Not really. Why should we study him in detail anyway if we believe what he says? Wright takes us into first century Judaism: being still in exile although back to their homeland from exile, waiting for a messiah (not a purely spiritual sin-forgiving Christ as we think), how Jesus understood his vocation ( The chapter Jesus and God is a tough one), the resurrection as new creation (and not simply that it means you can now go to heaven), post-modern critique of arrogant enlightenment and Wright’s critique of postmodernism itself-to appreciate but also go beyond it and to come out on the other side. The Chapter, ‘T...