Old Man And His God - Sudha Murthy (2006)

Once again a real life experience from a master story teller. The book is fairly for a more mature audience. Definitely shows the variety of experience the author has gone through with her involvement in social service activities.

Again a book full of stories with great morals.

How I taught my Grand Mother to Read and Other Stories - Sudha Murthy (2004)

A very nice book which depicts the author's interaction in life and portrays small snippets in a book form. The book has stories with great moral. However, age comes in as an important factor in appreciating these kind of writings. I will think the ideal age for this book will be the teenage. Reading these books in adulthood brings in adulthood scepticism into the thinking.

I will still recommend this book as a good read particularly if you are looking for a story book with loads of morals. 

The Magic Drum and Other Favourite Stories - Sudha Murthy (2006)

A collection of short stories for children, presented in a very simple language by one of the master story tellers of our times. Most of the stories depict human intelligence and wit and power of good over evil.

A good book to be given to a child over 8 years to tell her stories with a moral.

Married but Avaiable - Abhijit Bhaduri (2008)

Married but Available is the second novel in the MBA line. Protagonist Abbey who is a Jampot is testing waters in the real world and for next ten years struggling in the corporate structures of Balwanpur factory. A broken marriage, uncommitted relationships and a girlfriend who has no materialistic interest to success are some of the additional events of the novel.

I think in some sense the novel brings out a contrasting management styles of a political leadership of old generation to a participative leadership of the new generation. The kind of changes we have seen in some of the modern companies like TISCO and TELCO.

Overall a nice book to spend some time.

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Team (Second Edition) - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Undoubtedly, a masterpiece in software engineering management literature. However, something makes you wonder if these aspects are so well known why is software industry yet to learn from it if the book is available for almost two decades. I feel the acceptance of management to the concepts are so radically different that the management finds it hard to accept in the long run.

Overall it's a book that must be read by all the people working in any form of high technology development process.

2 States - The story of my marriage - Chetan Bhagat (2009)

Again for me this was a literary disappointment. The story started so nicely, I was almost getting to like it as much as FPS and the style and approach was impeccable. Particularly, the punjabi and tamil culture and their differences looked very nice. With two bollywood movies released the writer is way too much in glamorizing the situations and in the end the story moved very fast to a very lackluster finish.

Yet another time pass book like the 3 mistakes of my life but I guess this is what new generation is looking from the author in any case.