Books 📚 & Tech 👨‍💻 & Life 🏕️

This year, I am dedicating my reading journey to books across technology, literature, and business. Every Sunday, I will share my thoughts, reflections, and key insights from a book I have read, exploring the ideas, lessons, and perspectives that challenged, inspired, and broadened my understanding. #Technology #Literature #Business

ਕਿੱਦਾਂ ਕੋਈ ਭੁੱਲ ਸਕਦਾ ਏ ਕਿੱਕਰਾਂ ਤੇ ਵਰਦੇ ਮੀਂਹ ਨੂੰ....

At the height of Kaliyuga, bonds have grown delicate and vows are broken with ease. For the lure of wealth, some are willing to deceive even God, forgetting a timeless truth: that even Alexander the Great, conqueror of nations, left this world with empty hands. Wealth fades, power passes, and possessions remain behind; only our actions, our compassion, and the love we shared in the journey beyond our final breath. #RandomThought

A book remains a book. Whether your fingers touched paper or merely swiped a screen, the real treasure lies not in the pages we turned, but in what the book left behind within us - bunch of ideas, insights, and joy we carry after the last page. 😊

@booksoftitans Awesome 👍

You can now view my list of 200 Great Authors in both table and image formats. I'll be reading the Great Books by each of these authors over the next 40 years (I'm in year 4 and the 40 years leaves plenty of room for rabbit trails) - books.booksoftitans.com/great-authors/ And here is the full list here (year of author's death): 1 - Enheduana - 2250 BC 2 - The Epic of Gilgamesh - 2100 BC 3 - Writings from Ancient Egypt - 2000 BC 4 - Enuma Elish (Creation Epic) & Atrahasis (Flood Myth) - 1700 BC 5 - The Rig Veda - 1500 BC 6 - Homer - 700 BC 7 - Hesiod - 700 BC 8 - Sappho - 570 BC 9 - Aesop - 564 BC 10 - Lao Tzu - 531 BC 11 - Sun Tzu - 496 BC 12 - Confucius - 479 BC 13 - Aeschylus - 456 BC 14 - Herodotus - 425 BC 15 - Sophocles - 406 BC 16 - Euripides - 406 BC 17 - Thucydides - 400 BC 18 - Aristophanes - 386 BC 19 - Xenophon - 354 BC 20 - Plato - 348 BC 21 - Aristotle - 322 BC 22 - Chuang Tzu - 286 BC 23 - Epicurus - 270 BC 24 - Euclid - 270 BC 25 - Archimedes - 212 BC 26 - The Ramayana - 200 BC 27 - Terence - 159 BC 28 - Lucretius - 55 BC 29 - Cicero - 43 BC 30 - Virgil - 19 BC 31 - Ovid - 17 AD 32 - Livy - 17 AD 33 - Seneca - 65 AD 34 - The Bible - 100 AD 35 - Josephus - 100 AD 36 - Quintilian - 100 AD 37 - Tacitus - 117 AD 38 - Plutarch - 120 AD 39 - Epictetus - 135 AD 40 - Ptolemy - 168 AD 41 - Marcus Aurelius - 180 AD 42 - The Mishnah - 200 AD 43 - The Bhagavad-Gita (in the Mahabharata) - 200 AD 44 - St. Irenaeus of Lyons - 202 AD 45 - Clement of Alexandria - 215 AD 46 - Origen - 253 AD 47 - Plotinus - 270 AD 48 - Eusebius - 339 AD 49 - St. Athanasius of Alexandria - 373 AD 50 - St. Basil the Great - 379 AD 51 - St. Gregory of Nazianzus - 390 AD 52 - Gregory of Nyssa - 395 AD 53 - St. John Chrysostom - 407 AD 54 - St. Jerome - 420 AD 55 - St. Augustine - 430 AD 56 - The Talmud - 500 AD 57 - Boethius - 524 AD 58 - The Koran - 632 AD 59 - Beowulf - 1000 60 - Murasaki Shikibu - 1014 61 - Abolqasem Ferdowsi - 1020 62 - Sei Shōnagon - 1025 63 - The Song of Roland - 1100 64 - Saint Anselm of Canterbury - 1109 65 - Anna Komnene - 1153 66 - Hildegard of Bingen - 1179 67 - The Mabinogion - 1200 68 - The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden - 1200 69 - Moses Maimonides - 1204 70 - Magna Carta - 1215 71 - Saint Francis of Assisi - 1226 72 - The Saga of the Volsungs - 1270 73 - The Poetic Edda - 1270 74 - Rumi - 1273 75 - Thomas Aquinas - 1274 76 - Njal's Saga - 1280 77 - The Sundiata - 1300 78 - Dante Alighieri - 1321 79 - The Tale of the Heike - 1330 80 - Giovanni Boccaccio - 1375 81 - Geoffrey Chaucer - 1400 82 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - 1400 83 - Julian of Norwich - 1416 84 - Margery Kempe - 1438 85 - The Arabian Nights - 1450 86 - Thomas à Kempis - 1471 87 - Niccolò Machiavelli - 1527 88 - Thomas More - 1535 89 - Desiderius Erasmus - 1536 90 - Nicolaus Copernicus - 1543 91 - Martin Luther - 1546 92 - The Book of Common Prayer - 1549 93 - François Rabelais - 1553 94 - John Calvin - 1564 95 - Teresa of Avila - 1582 96 - St. John of the Cross - 1591 97 - Michel de Montaigne - 1592 98 - Edmund Spenser - 1599 99 - The Story of Hong Gildong - 1612 100 - William Shakespeare - 1616 101 - Miguel de Cervantes - 1616 102 - Francis Bacon - 1626 103 - John Donne - 1631 104 - George Herbert - 1633 105 - Galileo Galilei - 1642 106 - Miyamoto Musashi - 1645 107 - René Descartes - 1650 108 - Blaise Pascal - 1662 109 - Molière - 1673 110 - John Milton - 1674 111 - Baruch Spinoza - 1677 112 - Thomas Hobbes - 1679 113 - John Bunyan - 1688 114 - Matsuo Bashō - 1694 115 - Jean Racine - 1699 116 - John Locke - 1704 117 - Isaac Newton - 1727 118 - Daniel Defoe - 1731 119 - Alexander Pope - 1744 120 - Jonathan Swift - 1745 121 - Charles-Louis Montesquieu - 1755 122 - David Hume - 1776 123 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1778 124 - Voltaire - 1778 125 - Founding Fathers - 1787 126 - Adam Smith - 1790 127 - Edward Gibbon - 1794 128 - James Boswell - 1795 129 - Olaudah Equiano - 1797 130 - Immanuel Kant - 1804 131 - Jane Austen - 1817 132 - John Keats - 1821 133 - William Blake - 1827 134 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 1831 135 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1832 136 - Sir Walter Scott - 1832 137 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 138 - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison - 1836 139 - Alexander Pushkin - 1837 140 - Emily Brontë - 1848 141 - Edgar Allan Poe - 1849 142 - William Wordsworth - 1850 143 - Mary Shelley - 1851 144 - Søren Kierkegaard - 1855 145 - Charlotte Brontë - 1855 146 - Alexis de Tocqueville - 1859 147 - Arthur Schopenhauer - 1860 148 - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1864 149 - Alexandre Dumas - 1870 150 - Charles Dickens - 1870 151 - John Stuart Mill - 1873 152 - George Eliot - 1880 153 - Gustave Flaubert - 1880 154 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1881 155 - Charles Darwin - 1882 156 - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1882 157 - Karl Marx - 1883 158 - Victor Hugo - 1885 159 - Emily Dickinson - 1886 160 - Herman Melville - 1891 161 - Walt Whitman - 1892 162 - Alfred Tennyson - 1892 163 - Frederick Douglass - 1895 164 - Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 165 - Friedrich Nietzsche - 1900 166 - Anton Chekhov - 1904 167 - George MacDonald - 1905 168 - Mark Twain - 1910 169 - Leo Tolstoy - 1910 170 - William James - 1910 171 - Henry James - 1916 172 - Marcel Proust - 1922 173 - Joseph Conrad - 1924 174 - Franz Kafka - 1924 175 - Thomas Hardy - 1928 176 - G.K. Chesterton - 1936 177 - Edith Wharton - 1937 178 - Sigmund Freud - 1939 179 - William Butler Yeats - 1939 180 - Mikhail Bulgakov - 1940 181 - James Joyce - 1941 182 - Virginia Woolf - 1941 183 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1945 184 - Sigrid Undset - 1949 185 - George Orwell - 1950 186 - Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1951 187 - Albert Einstein - 1955 188 - Thomas Mann - 1955 189 - Dorothy Sayers - 1957 190 - Zora Neale Hurston - 1960 191 - Ernest Hemingway - 1961 192 - William Faulkner - 1962 193 - W.E.B. Du Bois - 1963 194 - C.S. Lewis - 1963 195 - Flannery O'Connor - 1964 196 - T.S. Eliot - 1965 197 - John Steinbeck - 1968 198 - J.R.R. Tolkien - 1973 199 - Daphne du Maurier - 1989 200 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 2008

Python Illustrated by Maaike van Putten & Imke van Putten is one of those rare beginner books that makes learning Python feel enjoyable rather than tedious. Its clear explanations and visual approach make fundamental basic concepts easy to grasp. Well-structured for anyone starting their Python journey. P.S. Thoughts are drawn entirely from my own reading experience and are not influenced by any sponsorship or paid collaboration.

ਜਿੱਥੇ ਕੰਮ ਕਰੇ ਹਲੀਮੀ, ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਨਾ ਜ਼ੋਰਾਂ ਨੇ, ਮਾਲਕ ਹੱਥ ਡੋਰਾਂ ਨੇ।

Sometimes, a single verse is all it takes for ordinary life to blossom into a gentle sadhana, where each day becomes an act of awareness, gratitude, and quiet joy. Good Morning 🌞

@DollyNag Post work ritual that brings warmth, comfort, and a gentle release from the day's weariness 😊

Sometimes all I need after work ☕️🍪

@EmmanuelMacron @narendramodi Wow, Mr. President 😊

Priye mitr @NarendraModi.

@BarackObama 🇺🇸

More than 40 years ago, I arrived in Chicago in search of an idea. I was a young man looking for purpose, who believed deeply in America, was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, and wanted to be a part of something larger. The America I believed in was one where everyone has opportunity, everyone is seen, everyone belongs—because that was an America that had a place for me, too.

@Aloksharmaaicc 😊

This is my favourite video of Rahul Bhaiya from Bharat Jodo Yatra. #HappyBirthdayRahulGandhi

@vheeorji22 Take care of Indentation

Python is funny , one minute you’re coding, the next minute you’re searching why your code isn’t working. 😂

@WaterBaker Awesome perspective 👌

The price of consciously choosing solitude in your late twenties and early thirties, in order to find yourself, become who you truly are, and follow your true calling? It is that by the time you actually start looking for real love, the world around you has changed. Relationships are transactional, people prefer situationships to partnerships, and dating apps are more common than conversations. For a few years, I looked for genuine love, but I realised it was not to be found. Maybe it just wasn’t for me. This made me sad and disappointed. But then, something beautiful happened. I started to accept the present for what it really is. I’m not saying that the future may not be different - I may have a partner in the future and that’s ok too. But I can’t spoil my present for a future that may or may not exist. I started to take the present for what it really is - a present, or a gift. I started painting with a renewed energy. I started expressing myself through video and performance art, so boldly and courageously, that I may not have been able to do if I was with someone. I joined jazz dance classes. I started focusing on myself and my health, while enjoying that sweet treat and cheat day every once in a while. In my early thirties, I went back to school - and secured a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Australia, only to come back home and also do a diploma in French. I got back to learning, something I enjoy so much. And the best part? I have been available to my family and loved ones in a way that not many are able to take out time for. In a way that they needed, perhaps. In a way that I needed too. I’m turning 40 in 3 months. And I’m happy to say that by this time, I have genuinely become a ‘mast mola’. Just enjoying myself, enjoying my time on this Earth, enjoying my introspections, reflections, and having fun! And, my shoulders are relaxed, I am at ease, and my eyebrows are a lot less furrowed than they have ever been while in relationships. Tomorrow might be different, or it might not. What is important is that for now, I’m having the time of my life.

@teaonthespot2 Hope , Stories , Experiences , Knowledge , Mistakes , Laugh , Cry ,Tears , Indepath , Perspective, Imagination, Dreams ...List is long

Literature - my first love What do you love about books?

Every day is a fresh sheet of life - a chance to write a new story...

⚠️ A word of caution for anyone travelling on NCR roads :- The biggest challenge on NCR roads often comes from speeding e-rickshaws , app-based bike riders 🏍️ , and vikram autos 🛺overloaded with passengers. Many of them weave through traffic unpredictably, making the roads riskier for everyone. Stay alert, maintain a safe distance, and whenever possible, let them pass before proceeding. Your safety is always more important than reaching a few minutes earlier. #drivesafe&stayalive

When you look at the IT industry as a whole, here are programming languages driving much of IT sector :- If your entire programming journey depended on a single language, which one would you choose?

As the IRCTC attendant made his way through the coach, breakfast arrived right at my seat. Among the items on the tray was Upma(Top right in pic.)-my personal favorite 😊 This humble dish carries a rich history. Born in the kitchens of South India many centuries ago, Upma is truly an indigenous Indian creation. Over time, it journeyed far beyond its place of origin and found a home across the country, taking on new names and local flavors along the way. Perhaps the enduring appeal of Upma lies in its simplicity. It is affordable, nutritious, quick to prepare, and wonderfully adaptable to whatever ingredients like (carrots , green peas , golden corn , onion , tomato) are available. The familiar Rava Upma that many of us enjoy today gained widespread popularity during the colonial era, when semolina became more readily available. What began as a simple South Indian staple has since become a beloved breakfast companion for millions across India. As the train rolled onward, I savored a warm plate of freshly prepared Upma - a humble dish rich in history, comfort, and flavor. 🍲🚄