Author: Shankar Jaganathan

Book Review 2024.07: The Essentials of Hinduism -A Comprehensive Overview of the World’s Oldest Religion, 194 pages, Paperback, 1998 Over the last few days, I had been listening to the informative lectures by Swami Sarvapriyanandaji of the Ramakrishna Mission on various aspects of Consciousness, Time and Space and the convergence of Vedanta with the modern science on the You Tube in my evening walks. These talks on specific topics made me curious to have an overview of Hinduism, and on …

Book Review 2024.10: indistractable -How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, 217 pages, Paperback, 2019 This is the second of the three books focusing on psychological research that helps us live a life of our choice which I picked up in July consisting of “Dopamine Nation”, “in distract able”, and “Grit”. A shorter book than the 217 pages suggests due to its widespread layout of large pictures, highlights in bold fonts and chapter summaries, what it lacks in …