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RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Dec 30, 2018

Book Review — God is not great

I bought this book hoping to be get enlightened by historical accounts of how religion and god affected…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Nov 1, 2018

Book Review — The Idol Thief

Every country regardless of its political and economic system, with governments weak or poor, stable or…

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RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Oct 9, 2017

Book Review — Hit Refresh

We have heard FANG. And FAANG. There is an obvious missing element here — Microsoft.

Microsoft had lost several years of market leadership because of the declining software licensing business and the yet-to-pick-up cloud business. But they are coming back…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Apr 9, 2017

Book Review — The Phoenix Project

Does an excellent job of telling why we need DevOps. And that’s it.

The ideal audience for this book is someone who wants to know the relevance of DevOps. Someone who has spent years and years in Dev or Ops, but can’t begin to comprehend this…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Mar 26, 2017

Book Review — 1991

How PV Narasimha Rao made history

Economy and politics watchers fondly recall 1991 as a watershed year for India. This is the year India “opened up” their economy, this is the year we made a significant step towards abolishing license-quota-permit raj. But who was…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Feb 26, 2017

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Insightful, not necessarily engaging

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Industries Of The Future is a must-read for anyone who is curious about the bleeding edge changes occurring in…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Apr 8, 2016

Book Review — The Great Speeches of Modern India

The problem with reading history books written by historians is that the content is invariably colored by the author’s own beliefs and positions. When you are reading a certain historical event, you can rest assured you are reading the author’s…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Jan 18, 2015

Book Review — Cockpit Confidential

If you have noticed, there is a pattern. My previous book review was about a flight attendant writing about flying — and this book is about a pilot writing about flying. Patrick Smith is a first-officer (I think) who writes about flying — or more specifically, answers…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Dec 29, 2014

Book Review — Cruising Altitude

Among the many books I have read and reviewed on this blog, I bet the topic of this book is different. This book is about a flight attendant’s account of a career in the air travel industry — part memoir, part tell-all, part tips and tricks on how to make your journey…

RK Kuppurao in Cerebrate Life

Dec 18, 2014

Book Review — An Accidental Prime Minister

I heard about — and bought — this book right during the Indian General elections of 2014, at a time when the end of Dr Singh’s administration was almost in sight, Modi’s soaring win was seen as inevitable.