Tales of Avya

Genre: Memoir "Becoming" is that book which I picked up on a whim. I didn't even know why I wanted to read it. Once I read a third of it and left it unread for about a month. Well! I picked it up again this June with a firm decision to complete it. And wow! I did it, now wondering why is that I left it like that then? It is a pretty awesome book! The book on one side feels like Michelle Obama's strive to strike the perfect balance in her life. And how successfully she achieved it. She was very clear in portraying her life. Michelle Obama expressed the timelines of her life so reasonably in the book. Clearly, her connection of the incidents from her earlier life to those later in life as lessons learnt shows how we learn from our own experiences. This is a kind of realization to me that how important are the experiences in one's life. I think this book is a perfect one to be read by an adult woman managing her job on one side and a family on the other side. Her exp...

Genre: Self-Help  If to say in a line, an absolutely correct book for my ever lazy body to dive right into the practice of yoga.  Now look, I'm the one who's been in just a mere thought of incorporating yoga as a practice in my life for two years now. All this, without taking the next step of starting to practice actually. So, are you the one who's planned to practice yoga but stuck at the thought itself doing nothing? Not taking a step forward or procrastinating over it? If yes, you are the correct person to read the book. It helps you take that next step. I assure you because I am there. Sadhguru's simple language keeps the readers engaged. If you are the one who listens to his speeches often, you actually feel him reading to you through your glance at the words as you know his vocabulary. I say this from my own experience.  For those who don't know?   Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a yogi, a mystic, and the founder of Isha Foundation, an all-volunteer organisation fo...