Reading

Books

What I read, across security and engineering, Indian history and foreign policy, philosophy, and Hindi and Urdu poetry. The ones with notes have a page of notes and quotes.

Reading now
  • Security and engineeringJavaScript for HackersGareth Heyes
  • FictionThe City and Its Uncertain WallsHaruki Murakami
  • Security and engineeringThe CloudSec EngineerMarco Lancini

Security and engineering6

  • Alice and Bob Learn Application SecurityTanya Janca
  • Good Strategy Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt
  • PeoplewareTom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
  • The DFIR Hitchhiker's GuideCommunity-authored (multiple contributors)
  • The Phoenix ProjectGene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  • Visual Threat IntelligenceThomas Roccia

Thinking5

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyYuval Noah Harari
  • NoiseDaniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass Sunstein
  • On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
  • Pulling the TriggerAdam Shaw, Lauren Callaghan
  • RangeDavid Epstein

India and history8

  • A History of Ancient and Early Medieval IndiaUpinder Singh
  • Before Memory FadesFali S. Nariman
  • From Plassey to PartitionSekhar Bandyopadhyay
  • Gandhi Before IndiaRamachandra Guha
  • Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914 to 1948Ramachandra Guha
  • India After GandhiRamachandra Guha
  • India Since IndependenceBipan Chandra et al.
  • The Argumentative IndianAmartya Sen

India and the world8

  • Crosswinds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over ChinaVijay Gokhale
  • Pax Sinica: Implications for the Indian DawnSamir Saran, Akhil Deo
  • Strategic Conundrums: Reshaping India's Foreign PolicyRajiv Sikri
  • The India WayS. Jaishankar
  • The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with IndiaVijay Gokhale
  • The New World Disorder and the Indian ImperativeShashi Tharoor, Samir Saran
  • The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policyed. David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, Srinath Raghavan
  • Why Bharat MattersS. Jaishankar

Philosophy16

  • Being HappyEpicurus
  • Discourses and Selected WritingsEpictetus
  • Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard
  • How to Be a StoicEpictetus
  • Man Alone with HimselfFriedrich Nietzsche
  • Marxism and FreedomRaya Dunayevskaya
  • Maxims from MahabharataSridhar Potaraju
  • MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
  • On the Shortness of LifeSeneca
  • The Art of WarSun Tzu
  • The Bhagavad Gita for MillennialsBibek Debroy
  • The Difficulty of Being GoodGurcharan Das
  • The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
  • The Sickness unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard
  • The SymposiumPlato
  • What is Existentialism?Simone de Beauvoir

Money3

  • Stocks to RichesParag Parikh
  • The Most Important ThingHoward Marks
  • Value Investing and Behavioral FinanceParag Parikh

Fiction16

  • 1984George Orwell
  • Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
  • Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
  • Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami
  • Men Without WomenHaruki Murakami
  • Norwegian WoodHaruki Murakami
  • Panchatantratr. Arthur W. Ryder
  • Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
  • The Border TrilogyCormac McCarthy
  • The Elephant VanishesHaruki Murakami
  • The Oath of the VayuputrasAmish
  • The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaShehan Karunatilaka
  • The TrialFranz Kafka
  • To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee
  • UndergroundHaruki Murakami
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningHaruki Murakami

Hindi prose6

  • आधा गाँवAadha Gaonराही मासूम रज़ा (Rahi Masoom Raza)
  • दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थीDeewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thiविनोद कुमार शुक्ल (Vinod Kumar Shukla)
  • पटना का सुपरहीरोPatna Ka Superheroनिहाल पराशर (Nihal Parashar)
  • यही सच हैYahi Sach Haiमन्नू भंडारी (Mannu Bhandari)
  • रेत की मछलीRet Ki Machhliकान्ता भारती (Kanta Bharti)
  • लेफ्ट राइट लेफ्टLeft Right Leftनिहाल पराशर (Nihal Parashar)

Hindi and Urdu poetry13

  • आज के प्रसिद्ध शायरAaj Ke Prasiddh Shayarसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • आशिक़ी पाँव न उखड़ेAashiqi Paanv Na Ukhdeशाह अकबर दानापुरी (Shah Akbar Danapuri)
  • इक़बालIqbalसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • कबीर दोहावलीKabir Dohavaliसं. नीलोत्पल (ed. Neelotpal)
  • जो डूबा सो पारJo Dooba So Paarअमीर ख़ुसरौ (Amir Khusrau)
  • दाग़Daaghसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • निदा फ़ाज़लीNida Fazli
  • फ़ैज़ अहमद 'फ़ैज़'Faiz Ahmed Faizसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • बेख़ुद किए देते हैंBekhud Kiye Dete Hainबेदम शाह वारसी (Bedam Shah Warsi)
  • मीर तक़ी 'मीर'Meer Taqi Meerसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • मैं ज़िन्दा हूँMain Zinda Hoonराहत इंदौरी (Rahat Indori)
  • साहिर लुधियानवीSahir Ludhianviसं. प्रकाश पंडित (ed. Prakash Pandit)
  • सैर कर दुनिया की ग़ाफ़िलSair Kar Duniya Ki Ghafilख़्वाजा मीर दर्द (Khwaja Mir Dard)

English poetry10

  • The Poetry of Edward LearEdward Lear
  • The Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett BrowningElizabeth Barrett Browning
  • The Poetry of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson
  • The Poetry of John DonneJohn Donne
  • The Poetry of John KeatsJohn Keats
  • The Poetry of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde
  • The Poetry of ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
  • The Poetry of W. B. YeatsW. B. Yeats
  • The Poetry of Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman
  • The Poetry of William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth