Babur authored a unique document in history, titled the Babur Nama, Journal of Babur where he has recorded events and noted down his assessment of the potentates and artists and poets he encountered. The Babur Nama(Penguin Books, India, Rs. 350) is the earliest example of autobiographical writing and one of the finest, unrivalled for more than five centuries, until a diary maintained by Queen...

Behavioural finance is a new field of study and Parag Parikh, a Mumbai-based stock broker is one of the first to write a book on it in India. His book "Stocks to Riches" adapts behavioural finance to the Indian context. Retail investors largely are ignorant about the behavioural patterns and attributes while being a part of the macro system. To illustrate this, he has interesting chapters in...

The gymless method of total fitness places great store by Indian squats. They're valued in the akhara scene as well: this high repetition, rhythmic version of bodyweight squats develops the hips, thighs, calves, and lower back - and lung power. Thus the squats lay what combat fitness buffs call the foundation of strength and endurance. Without this exercise routine, there's every danger of...