The philosophy of the former Nation editor Victor Navasky, “to question the conventional wisdom, to be suspicious of all orthodoxies, to provide a home for dissent and dissenters, and to be corny about it, to hold forth a vision of a better world,” still holds true for these times now.
We are all living in an era where rising comforts and a growing economy have conditioned many individuals with good education to shirk all political responsibilities and even a basic understanding of political matters. There is a rapid increase in the mindless content of entertainment, news, films, and books; hence, we have to seek knowledge in a very mature and intelligent manner. In the era of instant judgment, careful analysis and patience are required. By looking through the complexity enough, one needs to find the real cause of the sufferings of many.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. There is a pleasure in finding things out. The starting point of any education is giving us an understanding of ourselves, our culture, and our world. Our knowledge must adapt to changing times, not get buried under traditional walls of classroom teaching. I don't read journals (not even EPW) myself, as even using Google smartly requires scholarly work. But there is always an effort and guidance required for personal growth.
I am naming a few books related to the field of rural management and development. You can add your own preferences, but reading books is a personal choice. There is a very thin line between creative suggestion and interference. One is always free to search and share his/her own knowledge. I will quote Aldous Huxley, who put it more elegantly - “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Good Books on Management
We are all living in an era where rising comforts and a growing economy have conditioned many individuals with good education to shirk all political responsibilities and even a basic understanding of political matters. There is a rapid increase in the mindless content of entertainment, news, films, and books; hence, we have to seek knowledge in a very mature and intelligent manner. In the era of instant judgment, careful analysis and patience are required. By looking through the complexity enough, one needs to find the real cause of the sufferings of many.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. There is a pleasure in finding things out. The starting point of any education is giving us an understanding of ourselves, our culture, and our world. Our knowledge must adapt to changing times, not get buried under traditional walls of classroom teaching. I don't read journals (not even EPW) myself, as even using Google smartly requires scholarly work. But there is always an effort and guidance required for personal growth.
I am naming a few books related to the field of rural management and development. You can add your own preferences, but reading books is a personal choice. There is a very thin line between creative suggestion and interference. One is always free to search and share his/her own knowledge. I will quote Aldous Huxley, who put it more elegantly - “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Good Books on Management
- Connect the dots by Rashmi Bansal
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
- Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Simply Fly – A Deccan Odyssey by Captain Gopinath
- Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Made In Japan: Akio Morita & Sony Reissue by Akio Morita
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Al Ries, Jack Trout
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
- We Are Like That Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India by Rama Bijapurkar
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
- Beyond the MBA Hype: A Guide to Understanding and Surviving B-Schools by Sameer Kamat
- The Ascent Of Money: A Financial History Of The World by Niall Ferguson
- I Have a Dream by Rashmi Bansal
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
- I Too Had a Dream by Verghese Kurien
- Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Everybody loves a Good Drought by P Sainath
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
- We Are Poor but so Many: The Story of Self-employed Women in India by Ela R Bhatt
- Hello Bastar: The Untold Story Of India's Maoist Movement by Rahul Pandita
- Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
- A Fistful of Rice: My Unexpected Quest to End Poverty Through Profitability by Vikram Akula
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by CK Prahalad
- Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus