Book Review Archives - Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/category/book-review/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:31:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 113682794 ‘HARSH REALITIES’ AND MARICO https://vivekvsp.com/2025/11/harsh-realities/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/11/harsh-realities/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:52:26 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9733 The Making Of Marico Harsh Mariwala’s memoir ‘Harsh Realities’ is in my hands. It is a story of ‘The Making of Marico.’ Harsh Mariwala has...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/11/harsh-realities/feed/ 1 9733 Metamorphosis https://vivekvsp.com/2025/08/metamorphosis/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/08/metamorphosis/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:21:09 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9656 Kafka’s Book Set Me Thinking ‘Metamorphosis’ was the name of the book I read. In fact however, I read two books, one the English translation...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/08/metamorphosis/feed/ 8 9656 YES, PLEASE TAKE THE OTP https://vivekvsp.com/2025/07/yes-please-take-the-otp/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/07/yes-please-take-the-otp/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:16:21 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9612 The book comprehensively captures the impact of e-Commerce Neelambari Joshi wrote a short post on ‘OTP Please’, the book which Vandana Vasudevan authored, on Facebook,...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/07/yes-please-take-the-otp/feed/ 4 9612 Adam Master – From Rebel To Reformer https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/adam-master/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/adam-master/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:16:24 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9346 I put down the biography ‘Sangharshaachi Mashaal Haatee’ (‘Holding the Torch of Struggle’) only after reading more than half of the 300-page book. And that...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/adam-master/feed/ 9 9346 On ‘The Many Lives of Syeda X’ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/12/many-lives-of-syeda/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/12/many-lives-of-syeda/#comments Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:33:38 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9145 The Untold Story of The Terrible Life of Migrants Some books are called ‘unputdownable.’ But I put down this book in review, ‘The Many Lives...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/12/many-lives-of-syeda/feed/ 10 9145 The Gym of Leadership https://vivekvsp.com/2024/11/gym-of-leadership/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/11/gym-of-leadership/#comments Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:12:37 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9090 Indrajit Gupta Facilitated Insightful Fireside Chat With Three Leaders And (saluting the inimitable Busybee) here are a few thoughts and feelings, all mine, on the...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/11/gym-of-leadership/feed/ 8 9090 Her Tale of Two Books https://vivekvsp.com/2024/09/tale-of-two-books/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/09/tale-of-two-books/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:23:10 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8947 I met Ms Vinu Pillai at Thane HR Group, but I really got to know her well only during the past two or three years....

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/09/tale-of-two-books/feed/ 5 8947 ‘Porya’ The Child Labour We Do Not Know https://vivekvsp.com/2024/01/child-labour/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/01/child-labour/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:52:07 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8363 The Tell-All Book on Child Labour Our first meeting was not about child labour or his book ‘Porya.’ He left a great impression in the...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/01/child-labour/feed/ 5 8363 Poetic Advice On Mental Health https://vivekvsp.com/2023/09/mental-health/ https://vivekvsp.com/2023/09/mental-health/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:28:13 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8133 ‘Anxiety None-O-None’ which is an ‘Illustrated book of poems For teens and young adults’ is a book different from the ‘Do-This and Don’t-do-that’ books on...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2023/09/mental-health/feed/ 0 8133 The War, a Ukrainian Soldier, and His Sister https://vivekvsp.com/2023/09/war-2/ https://vivekvsp.com/2023/09/war-2/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:25:22 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8121 ‘The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister’ attracted my attention in the book shop because of Russia’s war with Ukraine. I had earlier...

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