Hi,
There's too much information all around. Media is omnipresent. And in this age - what are books for? Well, we studied text books when we were in school.
We may not have liked them then - but we learned. And looking back - it was good to have much of the content of those books in our mind. Somehwhere in conscious or in subconscious mindframe deep inside us.
And then there were and there are books - not for any specific exams. But to enjoy, to learn and to succeed in another exam called the exam of life. To identify with words and ideas which remain as ideas with most of us in our individual minds.
Each working day only gets busier - we don't get time to wonder.
A new chapter of my life started in May 2006, when I lost most of my money in the crash of Indian equity market. I started this blog account, I wrote a few articles in global media, and more importantly I started my pet-project - Wondering Man.
Wondering Man is now out - both in E-book format and also as hardcopy.
Please click here to review 'Wondering Man, Money & Go(l)d' . And it's there in Google Books too.
Description:
Human civilization made progresses, historically, with each discovery of truth in its quest for The Truth over the years. And the author acknowledges all those contributions to human civilization as he sees himself as a global citizen of this world in its 21st century. Like Kurt Koffka, author of Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935), the author had an introductory question ““When I first conceived the plan of writing this book I guessed, though I did not know, how much effort it would cost to carry it out, and what demands it would put on a potential reader. And I doubted, not rhetorically but very honestly and sincerely, whether such labour on the part of the author and the reader was justified. I was not so much troubled by the idea of writing another book on psychology in addition to the many books which have appeared during the last ten years, as by the idea of writing a book on psychology. Writing a book for publication is a social act. Is one justified in demanding co-operation of society for such an enterprise? What good can society, or a small fraction of it, at best derive from it? I tried to give an answer to this question, and when now, after having completed the book, I return to this first chapter, I find that the answer which then gave me sufficient courage to start on my long journey, has stayed with me to the end. I believed I had found a reason why a book on psychology might do some good.” That was back in 1935, and the subject was psychology.
Human mind has been wondering much before that, and it continues to wonder – as much as it ever did, if not more. Here the author is not that certain that Wondering Man, Money & Go(l)d would do some social good – he sincerely hopes it would, in the maddening global affairs of 2006 – by taking a stock of our individual lives and that of human civilization.
Human civilization made progresses, historically, with each discovery of truth in its quest for The Truth over the years. And the author acknowledges all those contributions to human civilization as he sees himself as a global citizen of this world in its 21st century. Like Kurt Koffka, author of Principles of Gestalt Psychology (1935), the author had an introductory question ““When I first conceived the plan of writing this book I guessed, though I did not know, how much effort it would cost to carry it out, and what demands it would put on a potential reader. And I doubted, not rhetorically but very honestly and sincerely, whether such labour on the part of the author and the reader was justified. I was not so much troubled by the idea of writing another book on psychology in addition to the many books which have appeared during the last ten years, as by the idea of writing a book on psychology. Writing a book for publication is a social act. Is one justified in demanding co-operation of society for such an enterprise? What good can society, or a small fraction of it, at best derive from it? I tried to give an answer to this question, and when now, after having completed the book, I return to this first chapter, I find that the answer which then gave me sufficient courage to start on my long journey, has stayed with me to the end. I believed I had found a reason why a book on psychology might do some good.” That was back in 1935, and the subject was psychology.
Human mind has been wondering much before that, and it continues to wonder – as much as it ever did, if not more. Here the author is not that certain that Wondering Man, Money & Go(l)d would do some social good – he sincerely hopes it would, in the maddening global affairs of 2006 – by taking a stock of our individual lives and that of human civilization.
About the Author:
Born in India, the Author has helped multinationals and large Indian firms realize their dreams, in his small capacity, for twelve long years. The writer is presently pursuing his PHD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
He understands yet challenges globalization. He lives on the leading edge, but that same edge is bleeding the soul out of mankind. This book is from one of us who’s seen life from close – in its scarcity and in its abundance – and enjoyed every moment of it – in meaningful lasting joys, and in silent cries in moments of planned slaughtering of mankind.
Book extract:
Finally Wondering Man is about our Wanderings and Wonderings. We wonder in money, or making money a majority of our lifetime; we wonder in education, we wonder in literature and social sciences, we wonder in science, we wonder in music and in history; and we sometimes wonder in philosophy. Leaving all aside, at times we wonder in Nature. We have been wondering in these things since time immortal. In this book, we take these wonderings in the context of 21st century global world.
One important thing, in which we do wonder, and wonder a lot; which differentiates this world from a tomb; which by virtue of itself is eternity and thereby against all stocktaking to find one’s position in this civilization and globalization; is love. However this book, apparently does wonder less in love. However I believe it’s there in this book – implicitly all over.
Wondering man is about connecting with us; externally in and internally out, on the net. Middle-East crisis in July 2006 showed when common man from the warring nations could communicate, our Governments and leaders couldn’t. Wondering Man is a wandering story about that.
I did not know about a wise saying of Socrates when I started writing this book. As I approached its end, I found the saying of Socrates in my wandering research. And that wise saying alone answers why this book came up. Just keep in mind Socrates' belief that the unexamined life is not worth living. It's not worth suffering either. It’s true for our lives and for our civilization.
Born in India, the Author has helped multinationals and large Indian firms realize their dreams, in his small capacity, for twelve long years. The writer is presently pursuing his PHD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
He understands yet challenges globalization. He lives on the leading edge, but that same edge is bleeding the soul out of mankind. This book is from one of us who’s seen life from close – in its scarcity and in its abundance – and enjoyed every moment of it – in meaningful lasting joys, and in silent cries in moments of planned slaughtering of mankind.
Book extract:
Finally Wondering Man is about our Wanderings and Wonderings. We wonder in money, or making money a majority of our lifetime; we wonder in education, we wonder in literature and social sciences, we wonder in science, we wonder in music and in history; and we sometimes wonder in philosophy. Leaving all aside, at times we wonder in Nature. We have been wondering in these things since time immortal. In this book, we take these wonderings in the context of 21st century global world.
One important thing, in which we do wonder, and wonder a lot; which differentiates this world from a tomb; which by virtue of itself is eternity and thereby against all stocktaking to find one’s position in this civilization and globalization; is love. However this book, apparently does wonder less in love. However I believe it’s there in this book – implicitly all over.
Wondering man is about connecting with us; externally in and internally out, on the net. Middle-East crisis in July 2006 showed when common man from the warring nations could communicate, our Governments and leaders couldn’t. Wondering Man is a wandering story about that.
I did not know about a wise saying of Socrates when I started writing this book. As I approached its end, I found the saying of Socrates in my wandering research. And that wise saying alone answers why this book came up. Just keep in mind Socrates' belief that the unexamined life is not worth living. It's not worth suffering either. It’s true for our lives and for our civilization.
