After joining the S/W industry I hardly get anytime to read books nowadays. Even though reading is my habit this is the first book that I read this year courtesy to one of my dear friends who gifted me this book last month.
The best part of this book is the few beautiful lines written on the cover and back page by my dear friend (obviously ). Generally I end up reading those lines more than the book .
I really like this book by Sudha Murty. The chapters are short yet give meaningful messages. Especially when you start the book the way she describes a good experience followed by a bad experience in next chapter keeps you interested to read more and more. It actually justifies the title “Wise and Otherwise”. The few chapters which I really like are ”Honesty comes from the heart”, “In Sahyadri Hills, A lesson in humility”, “In India the worst of both worlds”, “Idealist at Twenty , Realists at Forty” and many more. She touched upon the actual India with her traveling experiences and speaks a volume about how the upper middle class of our society is engaged in show business, too far from the reality. How the feelings are dying in our society and our insensitivity indexes are scoring high everyday. She also tells that practicing a highly principled philosophy of life doesn’t require high class schooling. She tells how we could be very happy just by admiring and accepting what life has provided us.
But this book lacks the binding power after half way; most of the chapters are very well composed and written beautifully in the beginning. After half way the interest starts lacking and chapter’s outcome becoming more predictable.
Saying this much I would suggest its worth reading. Go ahead and read it if you have not done already.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
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