Bookish's Club!

Image Courtesy: www.amazon.com Do we care that more than 60 million children are still deprived of primary education around the world? Do we care that more than 50% of such children are girls? Have we ever thought that why our sisters, mothers, wife, and any other women in our society are being deprived of education and basic human rights? Have we ever pondered on how we could help those children on getting basic education? These are some grave questions that we must linger around when we are talking about Malala Yousafzai. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate who won the prize at the early age of 17 for raising her voice about the education of children, and especially the girls. The book is the story of Malala co – written by Malala herself and Christina Lamb. It contains the every lofty details of her life, even beginning from the story of her father and mother, Pashtun, and the Swat valley. She described about the Pashtun, their origin, their tradition, their language, their br...

  In the current era of Information and Technology, and Social Medias, it has become difficult for people to focus/concentrate on anything. We are becoming constantly distracted due to the flood of notifications on our Smart Phones on an ongoing basis. Due to profound use of internet (leisurely and for work as well), our short term memory has been getting enough exercise: however, this practice has been deteriorating our long term memory – which is imperative for critical thinking exercise and producing meaningful results. Writer and Professor Cal Newport has written this book in order to show this devastating reality, and on the other hand providing convincing skills and practices necessary to shift this paradigm towards more focused and meaningful work habit. He had used the relevant examples and case studies – like of Carl Jung and Bill Gates – to generate excellent arguments on why deep work is necessary. Cal has defined deep work and shallow work as: Deep Work: Professional ac...